Pre-Christmas Family Activities

Since the Lumsden family was here a few days before Christmas, we had a some fun days of being out and about together showing everyone around.  We started our adventures the minute we picked up Jason's brother and sister-in-law from the airport (we don't mess around!) by taking everyone to Pike Place for a little market shopping.

Cammy's first trip to Pike Place

The Lumsdens have arrived!

Lunch at Pike Place before the second airport pick-up

Our little shopper

The following day we visited the Museum of Flight to check out the planes from the rooftop and then off to the Mukilteo Beach for a quick photo shoot (rare occasions when we are all together call for LOTS of pictures, but I spared you from looking at most of them...unless of course you are my Facebook friend).

Cammy just cruising around with the airplane suitcase that apparently we need buy for her!

The whole group up on the museum rooftop

Our family at the Museum of Flight lookout

The grandkids and great grandkid with Grady 

Such a special photo of the Lumsdens with Jason's grandpa Grady at the beach

And that evening we took the family to see extravagant Christmas lights at the Woodinville Wonderland and Keeners Christmas.  It was a rainy night to be outside, but we still enjoyed ourselves under our umbrellas all bundled up.  A true Northwestern Christmas!

Woodinville Wonderland

The group (minus the grandparents)

 
Christmas Eve was a busy day...Jason was frantically trying to finish Christmas shopping with all the other men while we took time to bake sugar cookies and decorate them.  Once we were all together again, we went to a Christmas Eve church service and then to dinner with all the Florida family at the very yummy Crab Pot.  We learned a very valuable lesson as parents that night at dinner...NEVER take a 15 month old who can't sit still to a place that takes longer than an hour to be in and out of.  We spent most of our dinner looking embarrassed by our child who was crying from being forced to stay seated or bribing her to be quiet with a big bowl of rainbow sherbet ice cream.  Why don't people warn us about this stuff before we have to learn it on our own?!

My cookie decorating helpers

Dinner at the Crab Pot