wednesday 22 dec - 16hr drive to washington : remind me i NEVER want to do that again (until next time it comes to being alone on christmas or spending 2/3 of a day in the car with a dog, a husband and a baby)
thursday 23 dec - running errands : grocery shopping : one of multiple trips to the walmart (how do people exist without a walmart within 15miles of their home? i wouldn't, that's for sure) : john's mountain home bakery (where everybody knows e's regular order and mor thought he would die from the intoxicating raspberry scones) : dinner with the laus and woods (we miss them) : the first 20min of "conan the barbarian" (more than enough time to never need to see any of it again)
friday 24 dec - last-minute christmas gifts at target : delicious french dip dinner : "white christmas" and chocolate milkshakes : hours of assembling toys for the wall kids (santa needed our help with the train table and scooter, if anyone asks)
saturday 25 dec - CHRISTMAS DAY!!! : so much fun opening presents, seeing all the kids get excited about what santa brought : dinner with aunt becky and uncle jeff (finn is still talking about tank the one-eyed obese cocker spaniel, no joke)
sunday 26 dec - first hour of church : home for naps and movies and laziness
monday 27 dec - returns/exchanges : "tangled" for everyone (disney didn't disappoint) and "true grit" for matty and mor
tuesday 28 dec - seattle! : pike's : bathrooms for midgets : powdered sugar donuts in a paper bag (i was lucky enough to snag one before coop downed almost the entire dozen) : curiosity shoppe : qdoba
wednesday 29 dec - sick finn
thursday 30 dec - sicker finn
friday 31 dec - sickest finn : leave for home : train derailment resulting in hazmat spill and closed i84 : get stuck in baker city, or (where one of the motels had a sign that read "way too go dawg's") : st alphonsus to finally get finn seen (double ear infection, suh-weet!) : freezing in our room at knight's inn : dominos pizza (don't believe them when they say they are changing things and making their pizza better; it tasted like warm cardboard) : sleeping off and on from 6p until we left the next morning at 5:30a
saturday 1 jan 2011 - if i thought the day-long drive last week was bad, it was nothing--NOTHING--compared to today's day of driving; it felt like we were in the car for 8days, not just the 8hrs it actually took to get home : rio for dinner because, dang it, we deserved it
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| these boys surprisingly didn't torment one another they didn't necessarily play nicely, but no bruises on either one |
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| LOTS of nights spent playing sorry! |
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| trying on uncle matty's glasses after grady got to them one too many times |
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| finners impressed aunt ric with his smarts : he knew all of his letters, most of his numbers and several of his shapes she got a video of it, so maybe i'll steal it from her to show you how really smart this kid is (since i'm sure you're tired of me just telling you he's a genius) |
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| roody another one of the beautiful boys in the family |
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| how most nights looked everyone together, exactly how it should be |
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| trying on g's buzz wings : just a wee bit too big |
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| talk about putting your foot in your mouth |
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| this was BEFORE walking around freezing seattle for 3hrs |
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| showing the pike's guy the sign for crabs |
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| my two cute too-cute boys |
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| terrible but necessary picture |
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| at ye olde curiosity shoppe with...is that gandhi? |
thank you, walls. and please forgive us if we never drive up to see you, ever again.
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