SOME AFTER-CHRISTMAS FUN

The day after Christmas, we went to visit the Carlile Clan. Everyone was there except Evan and his wife, Whitney, because she is about to give birth to their first baby. She will be a baby girl. Here's Meredith and Brandon with their firstborn, Gunner Lewis Winter. He's only 2 weeks old.

Such a cutie!

Here's the girls, Adrienne, Kelly and Lesley and Crystal. These girls have been friends til the end. The Coverstone and Carlile families have been friends for almost 30 years.

Steve and Adrienne's twins, Abby and Savannah celebrated their 8th birthday on Dec. 28th. They are going to get baptized this New Year's weekend in Albany and we are going to go.

Besides visiting with the Carliles, we had lots of other after-Christmas activities. Like watching TV in bed with grandpa.

Perfecting our driving abilities on the Wii with the Mario Kart game.

Taking time for a few last Belly Buzzers with grandpa.

We went back to the Autobahn at Hoodoo on Tues, the 29th. This time we took Kelly, her girls, and James and Julia and their 2 boys. It began to snow pretty hard the last hour that we were there.Nice smile Jim

Addy had fun. She got tired of waiting in the tow rope line and actually hiked up the hill at least 5 times and got the most runs down the hill than any of us. If I tried hiking up that huge hill, I'm sure it would have been renamed "heart attack hill" (and we know why)

Snow princess Sophia.

Here's a video of Addy and Kelly and Sophia going down the hill.


Here's what it looks like after a fun day at the Autobahn and hiking up the tubing hill 5 times.

On Wed. the 30th, we managed to get in some shopping at the Woodburn Outlet Mall. Kelly and Crystal call it "tax free shopping".

On New Year's Eve the girls and their families headed home. Actually Crystal went to Bend for a few days to stay with some friends and then Ryan and her and the kids will drive home to CA on Sat.
I took Kelly and Dylan to the airport. Addy and Sophia will be driven home by their grandma Mary on the weekend.
That's a "wrap up" of our year-end activities. It was a great 2 weeks for us. We hope yours was good too. Happy New Year 2010!!