Christmas in Bend

The Danners & Grandpa Danner came over for Christmas this year! It was a whirlwind 5 days of holiday activities, baking, hikes and playing with new toys. It's so fun to have this time together!

Gotta have a cousin jam session!

Uncle T deciding he needed to change into his long underwear while already on the trail.

George family heading out!

My baking helpers!

Cutting out Christmas cookies for Santa

Let the decorating begin

Their final product.  And I'm pretty sure Santa loved them :)

Oops, someone woke up after Santa had already delivered the presents and got an early sneak peek.  And yes, she fell asleep in her dress :)

The loot

They're not even sure where to start!

Now she finally gets to play with it!

Priceless present opening face :)

Also love this photo of how excited she was to get her shopping cart!

What?

Licncoln sharing his love of Star Wars with Tristan

Lincoln's new guitar from his "best cousin Tristan" :)

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Dishes for her new kitchen - yea!

And finally - The KING!!!!

Talia and her faces on Christmas morning were the best.  Oh, and please ignore the holiday décor in the background.  Yes, we still had our tacky decorations up from our Ugly Christmas Sweater Party - they were so bad, we had to keep them up!

 

 

 

 

Santa was good to me, too!  I was SO surprised!

Playing in the almost-completed Marketplace! 

 

 

Painting T's new trains from G'pa Danner

Learning to play Connect Four

Christmas morning hike!

I know Brian missed his family this year, as this was one of the first times he wasn't with them for Christmas, but we had a great time with the Danners!!

Santa!!

This past weekend, we finally made our Santa visit!  We were excited to go to the same, quaint little place as last year to give Santa our letter. Once again, Tristan only wanted one thing for Christmas - easy customer!  Last year it was a garbage truck.  And that was it.  Even after more prodding.  This year it's the King from Cars.  Sounds good to me!

Tristan's letter to Santa.  I'm sure this will be the only year he'll be asking for one thing :)

Trying to get a good pic before heading out to see Santa!  Not too successful :) 

Santa reading Tristan's letter!

Talia was not having Santa this year, so I got to photo bomb the pic :)

Such a cute pic :)  Better luck next year with both of them!

Cousin gift exchange

Since the Goodys will be in Portland for Christmas this year, we got the cousins together for an early gift exchange. We also got the cutest pictures from this night!

Pretty good posed pics!

Can you tell these four are related??

Tristan's car transporter from Eli

Emma helping Talia with her new espresso machine - love it!

Portland-Christmas edition

We once again made a trip over the mountains to see family and friends in our second home, Portland!  Since we won't see my parents for Christmas this year, we made this our Christmas time with them.  It also happened to be our good friends' annual cocktail party and our annual Ornament Exchange.  Win, win!

Cousin breakfast

At Zoo Lights - a must-do in Portland around the holidays!

Bundled up for the super cold night!

Lincoln & Talia snuggling on the stroller to stay warm :)

Matching in our blues & reds

Tristan & Papa!

Brian stayed back at my brother's house with the kiddos, so I got to have a night out with my girls!  It was so good to see everyone.  And hard to believe Christie is due in just a few months!

Haven't seen Keith in a looong time!  And this started the trend of doing a bunch of girl pics with different guys.

Guy pic #2 with Greg.  And apparently we all got the same memo to wear black!

Love :)

Guy pic #3 with the hostest with the moistest.  Miss this guy!  And yes, Lawrence and Jenna are wearing the same dress.  It's usually two out of the three of us who are twinsies for the night :)

Okay, one more.  All of us at the end of the night :)

At Falks' house for the 14th annual (wow!) Ornament Exchange!

Since we're saving our presents from Grama & Papa to open on Christmas, we don't have any of present opening yet.  Looking forward to more upcoming holiday activities!