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I got this new Kinect game for our xbox. It is 36 different mini games that are really simple to play and encourage you to just jump around and be silly. In this one, you are a pirate digging up your buried treasure.

Snoqualmie Snow Day

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This link should take you to my sky drive - a place where I can upload photos from my phone and share them with you. Hopefully it works well.

We drove to Snoqualmie Pass - due East on I-90 - and went to a part of the ski resort where it's just hills for sledding and areas for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. We went with Zoe's friend, Madeline, and her mom, Dana.

It snowed while we were there and it was already super deep. We took some inflatable snow tubes and our sled. Zoe really wanted to build a snowman, but it wasn't wet enough; just super powder - perfect for skiing, but not building. We stayed much long [5 hours] than any of us expected to. The girls had such a great time. They were both warm & dry in their snow bibs & coats & boots and didn't want to leave.

It took a little more than an hour to drive there from our house and the roads were clear the whole way. It was a pretty easy trip to make and so much fun that I'm sure we can do it again in a couple of weeks. Zoe thinks that she wants to try to ski and ride on a chair lift. It's worth a shot. Kids here start skiing at 3 years old. Me, I'm still afraid of chair lifts, so I won't be much help.

Birthday - Part 4

 

We had a surprise party for Zoe on Dec 20!

Constance & James let us have it their house.

Pete, Constance & James, Ben & Kenna, and Janie were all there waiting in the dark for me and Zoe to arrive. We ordered pizza and had cake and opened a few more gifts.

 

Zoe was really surprised and was excited that she finally got her surprise party.

 

Zoe put all of the candles on the cake.

 

I made a vanilla cake from scratch with cream cheese frosting.

It was delicious.

Birthday - Part 3

 

After the party at McDonald's we came back to the house. Pete's mom, Jo, and Annie & John [boyfriend,] and Constance & James, and Janie all joined us for snacks and margaritas and a piñata!

 

The piñata was made from corrugated cardboard and turned out to be quite solid. We had to lay it on the floor and have Zoe jump up & down on it to put a dent in it. I put a few bags of candy in it.

Birthday - Part 2

 

Here we are at Zoe's birthday party at McDonald's on Dec. 15th.

It was really easy, and that made it fun. I would totally do it again next year.

 

The kids got Happy Meals, cake & ice cream

[Wyatt and Zoe]

 

Zoe is here with Rowan, Madeline, and Wyatt, and Zoe W

 

I remembered the birthday quilt! I had the adults sign it.

Birthday Party: Part 1

 

Zoe and Aunt Annie at our house on Dec 14th.

Zoe got to open one present and it was a beautiful holiday Barbie!

i wish

Zoe is watching a cartoon and she runs to me and says :

mom, I wish I had a camera and when I push a button it takes a picture and the picture comes out of the bottom of the camera and then I can put it in a book.

Zoe, that's called a Polaroid camera.

Oh! Can I have one? Please please please?

Well. I don't know if that's possible.