Over the weekend (and some photos)...

We didn't do a whole heck of a lot!  I didn't feel well Sunday and actually took a little nap midday, which I never do!

Saturday night we did go over to our friends the Harrell's for a delish dinner - Julie is a really good cook and hostess.  Plus they have three girls that Callie loves playing with!

And speaking of Julie, she is also a very talented photographer.  She snapped a few photos of us later in the fall and I'm just finally getting around to sharing them.  You can see her work on her website:  julieharrell.com.  I have always been impressed with her and am so happy to have some wonderful pictures of Callie!  And speaking of Callie... she cried for about 99 percent of the time we were outside!  It was freezing out and I did make her wear a summer dress... so I guess it wasn't completely unjustified :)

A couple random things...

Caleb's baby blanket - Gallie's new favorite "cuddle blank."

Homemade biscuits - Gallie's all time favorite food in the whole entire world... with butter, of course :)

We have fun dinner plans tomorrow night but otherwise plan to have a very relaxing weekend!

Betty Cable

Caleb's grandma Betty passed away yesterday.  She suffered a stroke over the summer and never really recovered.  She was 88 years old.

Caleb went to Richland to see her again last weekend with his mom as the doctor said she didn't have much time left.  We are very thankful we took the time to visit her in the fall.  Callie had only met them one time before but was too little to remember - so I think that trip was really important.  We will all travel over there again next week for the memorial.

Our beach house.

This is where our new house is going to be!  We are actually moving to Birch Bay (a little beach town 20 min. north of Bellingham).  At first we didn't really consider this area because of the drive... but, the more we thought about living close to the beach and in a more peaceful area we loved it.  We are only about a 5 minute walk from the beach and a state park - you can see the water from our property if you squint, stand on your toes, and look really hard through the trees :)  We both work in town and will have to drive in everyday anyway so we will still send Gallie to the same school.  We hope to move by the end of April!

I really won't talk about every little update on the house, but I will try to post progress about once a month :)

Christmas vacation excitement continues..

I had a coupon for both the aquatic center and the pottery painting place so I let Gallie pick which she would like to do for our "special date" (she picked the movies for her and Caleb's date).  She quickly picked pottery painting so that's what we did!  She chose to paint a little puppy figure and I chose a tiny seashell dish.  The story of her puppy is that he got into the paint shed and made a mess :)

Tomorrow night is New Year's Eve... we had a fancy family dinner planned for just the three of us, but Caleb had to unexpectedly go out of town tonight.  So it will just be us girls - we have a bottle of sparkling apple cider and are ready to party!

2011 has really been a great year - best of all, we got to spend it with our sweet Gallie.  She told me today she doesn't care what we ever do as long as it's together and I feel the exact same way.  She turns 5 in just a couple months and I can't believe it!  We love her so much!

2011 has welcomed two new sweet baby cousins.  Gallie really loves each of her cousins so much - she has four now!

2011, well today actually, is when we signed the final papers for our new house!  We love our condo, but we are so excited to have a bit more space and a yard to play in.  We are having it built and construction should start in a couple weeks!

2012 has each day to look forward to.

A HAPPY, SAFE, AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!

Daddy Day

So yesterday Caleb took Callie to the movies and today he got her a Happy Meal for lunch. I guess that's what happens when he's off for the week and I'm stuck at work! Oh, and they also played Legos :)

At the movies!

Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 was a big hit with this 4 year old! But I think the bag of licorice was a bigger hit - Caleb, I told you not to get her candy!!!