Monday, January 16, 2012

The hap, hap, happiest Christmas

Despite Keith's extreme challenges over the Holidays, we still managed to have just about the "hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny [bleeping] Kay." We enjoyed skiing and snowboarding (until I tore my MCL wrestling), shopping, Ju-jitsu kick boxing (until I tore my MCL), doing puzzles, games, eating everything in sight (unaffected by my MCL injury), hanging out with the coolest grandkids known to man, P90X workouts (until I injured my MCL), a Broadway play in Seattle, the Holiday Brunch at Salty's (West Seattle), a trip to Portland and very special visit from Grandma Phyl.

Chels and Ally.









A belated Christmas in Tigard.



New Year's Eve in the hospital with Keith.




Chels and Ally. Notice the cross toes.



Lil D and Ally.



Sibling love or torture?



Lil D and Keithy.



A very satisfying New Year's Eve at Salty's.




Grandma Phyl spent a lot of time hanging out with Keith. It was touching.





Probably the best present I've received in a long, long time--a customized Wolverine themed climbing helmet, painted with our most famous family motto: "Scratch and Claw."




Keith finally getting to open a present. Woohoo!




Sheila, me and Grandma Phyl at Cinderella.




Shea, Lil D and Chels at Cinderella.




Cole--a Super Hero for sure!






A Princess, and she knows it!




Lil D and Me at the Box Office of the 5th Avenue Theatre for Cinderella.







Grandma Phyl and Lil D at Salty's (probably the best buffet known to mankind).







Grandpa Smart got to spend tons of time with Evie (and she loved it, of course).






I am not sure where all the pics of Sydney and Nick are. When Nick is around, I don't shoot very many pictures because I am totally intimidated by Nick's Nikon camera. At any rate, we felt so blessed this Christmas. Seeing Keith suffer so much was difficult to be sure, but we nevertheless found so much good to celebrate and enjoy just being together.

1 comment:

Nick said...

I like to think that it is because we were doing so many activities at such a high rate of speed that we don't have any pictures of us. Also, I am just so proud of the picture that shows Chelsea was playing Boggle while waiting for the show to start. Pretty much sums up our priorities (myself included).