Melissa, Andy and the kids' Blog

Here are the pictures from my late Christmas with my family. I'm sure the kids didn't mind having more than one Christmas. Mom and Bill are excited to have their children and grandchildren home! Look at the "men." It is always so good to see my nieces (Ava & Kiera ) and my nephew ( Kael ). Andrew is consoling Bobby because Shanda dropped a big dollop of whipcream on him. It scared him so much that he didn't even want to lick it off. The Clan likes to by lazy every now and then.

On the 19th of December I drove up with Uncle Fred and family to Oregon. The drive normally takes about 12 hours, but we had a nice 18 hour or so drive through snowy weather conditions. At least the boys got some good sleep. I-84 closed the next day, so at least we made it to Oregon where we were pretty much snowed in for a week. One day Trisha, Jeremy, Ava, and I bundled up to go play out in the snow. Jeremy even got me strapped in to a snowboard and I "snowboarded" down their driveway and street. Hey, it is the most snowboarding I've ever done. Jeremy even stuck Ava on the snowboard and she loved it. Ava kept us entertained throughout the week while we were trying not to get cabin fever. I think she read this Winnie the Pooh book at least 100 times! It was sure fun to get to spend a lot of time with her and Trish. Since we couldn't get out of Oregon to drive up to Washington for Christmas, we just stayed at Trisha's and eventually went across town to Grandma...