Watching Football

A couple nights ago Ellie was lounging with Daddy watching football. Too cute!

Santa

Last year Ellie loved Santa - because she was sleeping at only 1 month old. This year a completely different story. Maybe it was that she was due for a nap, or maybe its just that she's at that age. Either way, this picture cracks me up. Poor Santa.

Silly Girl

Ellie has a few new traits over the past couple of weeks. One is that she loves to carry things with a strap like a purse. My wallet, a shopping bag, even a shoe with a strap...haha. The other is that she is getting pretty good at brushing her hair...so cute. She also likes to try to dress herself, this includes placing items of clothing on top of her head. Hilarious! She's also figuring where body parts are - but not hers. Only someone elses - daddy's eyes, nose, etc. Here are some fun pictures.

Learning to Climb

Well the other night we got ourselves quite the surprise from Miss Ellie. She was over by the stairs, playing with the cat and I turned away for a split second - and she was up on the first stair....a new development. Both Jared and I bolted for her. We let her keep going and she got up a few stairs. The next night she was at it again, but made it up the entire first flight of stairs. We are in trouble now.... :)

Moss Adams Christmas Party

This year we were so lucky to have been invited to Moss Adams' Spokane Office's Christmas Party. Technically, I am still part of the Administrative Office in Seattle, but since I sit in Spokane, we got invited. This is the most amazing Christmas party you could ever imagine. First it was at the Davenport Hotel, simply beautiful. Not related to the party was the Festival of Trees. The Davenport hosts this event of 12 spectacularly decorated trees with all sorts of gifts associated with them (we are talking 1,000's of dollars worth per tree). For only $1 you can get a raffle ticket, pretty cheap, except that you have to remember the other 50,000 people that bought tickets too...Ok back to the party. Cocktail hour at 6 with top shelf alcohol, dinner at 7. For dinner we had three choices from the buffet - or you could have all three - Ham, Turkey or Prime Rib. Delicious! Followed by dancing and PHOTOS! There was the craziest photo booth with awesome props that we had a blast with all night long. To top off our night, they gave us a room at the Davenport and a $40 voucher for breakfast the next morning! What a wonderful night for just the two of us.

Carter's 3rd Birthday Party

Tomorrow marks Carter's 3rd Birthday!! Such a big boy! Yesterday we celebrated his birthday with a party at the arcade center at Lake Bowl. It was sooo cool. I haven't been there since they remodeled and its a lot of fun.

Happy Birthday buddy - We love you!

Lots and Lots of Snow

November was a snowy month for us. The city of Spokane just had the snowiest November in history 25.7 inches! We broke the record held since 1955 by over an inch.

Well December is starting off good for snow accumulation too! Check out the snow we are getting tonight! Huge flakes!!

Also, I have pretty lights on the house despite the amount of snow already on the ground when Jared went to put them up and the fact that we do not have a ladder tall enough to get them up the entire roof line - don't ask how he got them up as far as he did.