Merry Christmas!!

So here is the Christmas post!  Our first Christmas in the Pacific Northwest!

It was lots of fun with our real tree and our new house!

 

Here we see one of the major differences between the boys.  Grandpa Kyle asked for a bathrobe and Carter wanted a new Neff hat.  (Grandpa K also asked for slippers, too, and he was so excited to have both)

A super awkward and forced hug by Steve and I after they opened gifts they got for each other....

 

Modeling the new clothes from great grandma and great grandpa... they always pick the best colors for the boys!

 

 

Reading their new books.....

 

 

 

These stupid socks!  They had to have Nike Elite socks so we put them in their stockings.  Any other parents out there that has had to buy these things knows my financial irriatition with it!!

 

 

It was a great Christmas in the PNW... We had a really fun day celebrating and eating!  It was a quiet day with just the four of us and we had a nice day together.

 









This week is December 15th

This is the crazy Cat Lady post.

Both of the boys had been asking about a kitten.  Well I love animals and I can't resist that!  Frankie (the cat) and Josie (the dog) are great pets and I didn't think it would be any big deal to get another baby kitty.  They are super easy!

Unless you rescue TWO of them....

I justified this insane move by saying now each boy would have his own cat.  Frankly, I am just weak.  They were the last 2 left from their litter of 5.  They were 8 weeks old and had been together alone the last 2 weeks and I couldn't bear to break them up.  What would happen to the other one?  What if they didn't get adopted, too?

Ugh, weakling!! 

Steve said he knew all along that we would end up with both of them.  In fact, I recall him laughing out loud when I said we were only getting one of them. 

The boys were THRILLED and Carter named his Mabel.  She is the little gray one. 

Kyle's is the big black male and his name is Lucky.  He eats a LOT and his nickname is "fat cakes". 

For Christmas I ended up with a crazy Cat Lady coffee mug.  Everyone thought that was just HILARIOUS. 

It was pretty funny and I did deserve it.  I like it, too!

-- Jenny and the Cats --

This week is December 8th

So I decided to go to my company Christmas party!!   It was a huge sacrifice to go down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in December, but I made it work.  HA!

It was a very quick trip... I flew down Friday morning and flew back Sunday afternoon, but it was worth it!!  I got to see my friend, Jen, and we spent the weekend together and it was so fun!

I had to throw this in here and show you guys.... this is made from plastic water bottles!

It was warm and sunny and just plain awesome and it was very hard to come back to Seattle.  Jen upgraded our room and this was our view...

 *SIGH*   Hanging out at the pool and getting massages was really overrated.... Rain and coffee is where it's at!!

I hope you all have a good week!

Jenny and the Jets