The rest of us after Christmas dinner.

David after Christmas dinner.

Preparing the Christmas broccoli

Christmas Ship

I know it's hard to see. However, lots of boats all floating together and decorated, make for a very pretty sight.

All stuffed together and having a great tim.

Steve, Terri, Jannae, Katie, Jessica, and Peter

Aunt Karen with her nephew, David.

More Christmas ship photos

The young men in these pictures are the children of our cousins. All cute and fun kids. Dave is probably telling them all about the wonderful aspects of the X-Box.

Christmas Ships

For the past few years Aunt Karen and Uncle Ken have invited the family to go out on their boat and follow the Christmas ships around. It's an annual Pacific Northwest event and always fun and pretty to look at. Here are pictures of some of the fam......

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I had published the photo that didn't show the snow falling. This one does. I should have something new to post after this week end. We've been busy but haven't taken any photos.

Me and one of the many nutcrackers scattered all over the city.

Our annual Christmas trip to the city.

Each year we take a bus and go downtown to see the Christmas lights and take part in the festivities. This is a photo taken from the top floor of Pacific Place. There is snow falling on the folks below. Always kind of enchanting for kids.

Each year the Sheraton Hotel has a display of Gingerbread houses. You make a small donation to walk thru and see them all. The money goes to a variety of charities. It's always fun to see imagination at work.

This is a baker's idea of a Gingerbread house!!? Anyway, this one is quite elaborate and the kids in line loved it. Some dragon, huh?

A "few" lights on the bush.

We decided to put some lights on the rhododendron bush at the front of our house. There a about 2000 lights on it. All the lights we had on 3 bushes in Redmond are now on this one.

First snow in our new home.

Last week end we had some snow. It was lovely. It melted right away so we didn't have to think about driving in it.

The Wedding reception.

I can't believe that this is the only photo we have that has a smidgen of the bride or the groom. So I have to be happy with a picture of Mike, his friend and his friend's daughter and the back of Aunt Therese. Tust me Erin and her gown were beautiful.

Rehearsal Dinner in Tinley Park

Muf with her cousins, Mike and Kevin (the groom) and UF. Great evening

Havin' a great time at the rehearsal dinner. Me, Zach, Muf, UF and UB

Trip to the city.

The rehearsal dinner for my nephew's wedding, which is why we're in Chicago, was Friday evening. We spent most of the day just tooling about the city. This is our arrival at the LaSalle St. station. We met Muf and Zach for lunch with our former neighbor Betsy and another friend of Zach's. We ate in Greek town. Fun.

We went to the Art Institute of Chicago on Friday afternoon. Great place

The home we left in Clarendon Hills

We spent four days in the Chicago area last week. We got there on Thursday and visited our old home town that afternoon. This was our little 3 bedroom, yellow brick ranch. Lots of good times there.

Backyard, Clarendon Hills

This bush was just a few little branches when we left 26 years ago. Amazing what a little time will do.

Polly's Birthday celebration!

Nine of us went to Zteja's last night for a birthday party for Polly. As you can see the HBMW made it again. He's such a party person. Verrry nice evening.

Good times, good friends, lots of catching up!

Enjoying the scene, each other and the food.

I always wear sweaters to match my face!

This is the boy who has been married for 10 years.

He always enjoyed puddles!

He always enjoyed dirt too!

This has always been my favorite picture of David.

A few photos of the bride to be!

Muf went through a stage where Little House on the Prarie was very important to her. We watched all the TV shows, read all the books, even visited DeSmet So. Dakota. Hence the dress and hat.

Riding the carousel at the Happiest Place on Earth.

Some more shower photos

Aunt Karen set a lovely table. Yum.

Martha opening presents, Katie taking careful notes of who gave what.

Martha and the girls from High School.

Martha's bridal shower on Saturday

Aunt Karen hosted a lovely shower for Muf on Saturday. This is us ready to go!

Martha and Zach

Another birthday party photo. Seems we are all having fun.

David Andrew's birthday celebration

On Friday night, we had a family birthday celebration for David. It was very nice that Muf and Zach were here to celebrate as well. This is Muf and Dalene waitin' for cake.

Dave opening cards and presents.

Muf, Dad, Dave and me.

Dave getting ready to blow out his candles. Wonder what his wish was?

A couple more Phoenix wedding photos