Leavenworth

After Cade's birthday we got home on Thursday

and headed to Wenatchee on Friday for 

Marci's birthday and to go up to

Leavenworth to see the tree and town lightings

 Cascade Mtn.

 The town filled up 

 Nice looking group

 Some of the sisters

 and the town filled up

 until it was ready to burst.

 Before the lighting

and after

 Before

 and after

 Blewett Pass on the way home

A heavy frost on the trees.

We had a great time and enjoyed the company.

Actually we had been in Leavenworth before at

Christmas time but didn't see the town light up.

We saw the lights after they were all lit.

New experiences in retirement!!

When we got home on Sunday we had time
to change and head to Walt's family Christmas Party
This is also a good looking group

Three of Walt's brothers and their wives
their kids and their grandkids
Walt and me too but Brooke and Amy couldn't make it
otherwise everyone made a showing
Oh, Santa too!!

Cade Turns 13

Cade turns 13!!  So we headed down to 

California one last time this year!

 Look at that blonde stripe down her braid

 Cade made the birthday dinner of choice

 and the birthday cake of choice

It's so nice when they can do all the prep

themselves

 He and Claire even decorated the tree

 Maybe it's the perks that drives him to do the prep

 I'm sure it's Claire's reasoning

 Remember those birthday present openings of long ago?

Not the same at all

 Cousins on Andrew's side

 He did a great job on the cake

 He even made another cake on his actual birthday

and opened a few more presents

Happy 13th Birthday, Cade!!

While we were there Amy had a new refrigerator

delivered. 

  So Andrew and Walt pulled

out the old one 

 and cleaned under it

 The new one was delivered just in time for

the birthday party with Andrew's family

It was like Amy got a present too!!

Halloween 2017

While in California Claire was putting

together her costume for Halloween

She even added a British accent to make 

it even funnier.

 Amy sent these pics on Halloween Day

She was a hit!!

Before I went to California I made Pete and Ellie's

costumes for Halloween and took them over to them

so they would have them for a couple parties and a

parade before I got over there for Halloween

 Pete the Cat will have his White Tennis Shoes 

The Crow 

The white dots are pins because I had to glue the

last row on so the stitching didn't show

and of course the hat

When I came home from California and went over to Brooke's 

to celebrate Halloween with the little ones

 Brooke decided to potty train while she had reinforcements

so we played in the den instead of on the carpet

 Ellie brought home 'Slime' from her party at school

 Yes, she labels everything

 Trick or Treat night finally arrived

 Cold out, hence, the coat

 Pete did not like the tail

 and off they go

 to meet up with some neighborhood kids

About 5 princesses and a crow.  Pete is behind the glow stick 

back by the garage.  Just a little stubborn

 I got to go to Pete's Toddler Group one of the days

I was there..gluing feathers on an owl

 building with magnetic panels

 playing in Halloween colored lentils

which were really fun, the lentils were nice and cool

 Ellie painted her Japanese windsock from one of

her countries she gets in the mail

 She's good!!

They like playing in Gram's bed

but without diapers is a little scary

I had a great time with all the grandkids while 

Walt was hunting.  :o)

Just in...Cade finished his mask

Wow!!  You guys did a great job, very cool!!