Thanksgiving in Washington

Interesting note: In the last three years, Bry and I have moved up one State each Thanksgiving (CA, OR, WA).

This year was possibly the quietest Thanksgiving of my life. It ended up just being Bry and I on Thanksgiving day. It was so great to have him home on a weekday (even though it totally threw off my sense of what day of the week it was), and although it would have been nice to have been with lots of family, it was nice to have a relaxing holiday.

We started off the day by going to see Mockingjay, Part 1 which we both enjoyed.

We came home, ate lunch and were able to relax in the afternoon. We both worked on preparing the food for our Thanksgiving dinner. Since it was just the two of us, we kept it small and simple: ham, seasoned red potatoes, grapes for dinner with water and apple juice to drink; Toll House pie for dessert.

While it was nice to have a quiet Thanksgiving day, we were grateful to be joined on Friday and Saturday by Laurel Lee, Robert, and Valerie. We had Thanksgiving food, round 2, on Friday night - same food as Thursday but with stuffing also.

Saturday morning we woke up to snow which was a surprise! I blame Bry since he'd been saying it wasn't winter to him until he saw snow. Now it's winter. Luckily, it didn't snow too much and stopped snowing by late morning so the Corkrans were able to drive back to Portland safely.

Halloween 2014

Our last Halloween before becoming parents.

After changing my mind about 4 times, I decided to be a karate instructor (I have one pupil - she's a natural). Purple belt means intermediate; I didn't realize I was blocking it with my arms in the photo. Woops.

Bry was a Calgary Flames hockey player.

My motto idea

I decided today while shopping at a Costco I wasn't familiar with that they could use this motto:

In every Costco store you find the same wonderful joy. :)

Bry confessed to me that there are very few brands that he's as committed to as Costco. We are totally Costco fans.

So much to read

Good thing I have lots of time (for now). =)

Maybe I should figure out a schedule for reading all of these.... Luckily only some are library books.

Old Treasures

Becca helped me clear out some of the junk from my room this past Friday and I found some things that I no longer need but that I thought were worth a picture.

Electronic dogs that I thought were amazing when I was little.

A radio that made me feel like the coolest kid in elementary school because it was so small.

Slippers that were made by Grandma Chase many years ago.

My old dream catcher which I'd had since I was little. 

Aiden quotes from last week

Cousins aren't babies. Ever.

(When asked what he thinks a good baby girl name is:) Jesus.

I'm not handsome! I'm not wearing my Cars outfit.

(An Aiden classic for getting Landon to quiet down:) CROCODILE BOO! CROCODILE BOO!

Anderson/Snow family visit - overdue post

My parents, sister and nephews came out to visit Bry and I the second week of August. I gladly enjoyed being able to go around and see many of the sites that Bry and I went to our first month out here. In addition to some sites that were familiar for me, we also went to the Museum of Flight which was really cool. I forgot to bring my camera the first day so I missed taking photos at the Aquarium, on the Harbor Cruise, and at Pike Place Market.

View from the Space Needle. Foggy day. 

ZOO!

The otters were napping.

A hippo out of water! Might be the first time I've seen that.

Sitting in this plane freaked Aiden out because it made sounds.

Why isn't airplane food still like this?

This was Aiden's parting gift to us - he heard we had fruit flies in our apartment so this was his attempt at a trap. He sure is a cute kid. And he sure loves organizing magnets.

In addition to seeing some sights while they were here, we ate at some tasty restaurants, mom taught me how to cook fish (Bry was really excited about that), and mom bought maternity clothes for me and a pack'n'play for my baby, as well as a couple other items. Becca helped to clean up our second bedroom which was incredible and we can easily walk around in it now as opposed to doing the acrobatics that were previously required. My dad helped to move things out to our patio closet and installed a shelf in our washer/dryer/dining room closet which significantly added to the amount of stuff we can put in there. Thus, our kitchen is now better organized because we were able to move some things into that closet. It's great.

I'm so grateful for my family - for how helpful they are and how much they care about me and about Bry. I love them and I'm so glad I was able to see them up here for a week.