Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was the traditional buffet at Mom's house this year.  We ate tons, listened to a Christmas story from Dad, exchanged pj pants, and laughed a lot.  It was great!

Christmas Baking

Thanks to the crappy economy, I had to come up with some cheap ideas for Christmas gifts. Eryn and I got together last week and baked whole bunch of goodies for our neighbors.  I know that I enjoyed eating all of it, so hopefully they enjoyed it too. 

The finished product

Good 'ol sugar cookies

Peppermint meringues

Toffee

Congrats!!!

I just want to send a special congrats out to Marie and Brian.  We are so happy for you guys!!!  Now, lets just hope for a puke free pregnancy.  Love to you both. 

Julie & Dave

My Snow Angels

Here are a few pics I took of all the snow and ice that we got the week of Christmas.  Even though I was glad to have a white Christmas, this was a little much.

The snow drifts up to our front door were about 3 feet deep.

This was my Japanese Maple on Tuesday

Here it is on Wednesday

Ice covering our sliding back door

Neighbs

Most of you who read our blog, live all over the states and probably don't always know who I am talking about in my posts.  You have all heard me talk lots and lots about our neighbors (we like to call them our "neighbs") Trey and Eryn.  Here is a really cute picture of all of us last week before we headed out on a double date.  We are so lucky to have met them and live across the street from them.  They have a son around the twins age and are expecting #2 this spring. We couldn't ask for better friends!!!

Sledding

The week before Christmas, the Portland area got hit with TONS of snow.  One of the nights we were all stuck at home cause we couldn't get down our hill, Dave and Trey decided to take some of our tubes and go sledding.  I made Dave take the camera so that we could watch them, and this is what I got.  I think they had a good time!