T&G

The highlight of the year and a big life change for us in 2011 was moving from Vashon to Seattle and into the house we’d been renovating for a year. Eva was born just a few days before the start of the year so we were back to handling an infant again after having 2010 [...]

We had Steve and Renuka and their kids over for Christmas Eve dinner. Steve and I offered to cook the entire dinner. He brought a prime rib over around 2pm and I had most of my dishes prepared and ready to be cooked, as soon as the rib roast was done. Eric and Sandi stopped [...]

We had our first-ever parent-teacher conferences. Hudson’s was on November 29 and Havana’s was on December 2. Hudson’s was delayed and then cut short, so we rescheduled it for today. Both kids are doing great. Hudson was hard to get to wash his hands in the morning and didn’t always clean up when asked, so [...]

The local elementary school has a Christmas Tree sale, so we ordered our tree, a Noble Fir, of course. We put it up and decorated it today. Both Havana and Hudson were very excited to put ornaments on it; that’s the first year they’ve done that. This is the earliest we’ve ever had our tree [...]