Yay! The kids are back in school, and we are finally back to having some schedule in our lives again. To be honest, I actually enjoyed the time spent with the girls doing very little and not accomplishing a lot. However, it was time to start putting away the Christmas decorations and get to some New Year's cleaning.
We spent New Year's Eve with the Lucas Family. The girls had fun watching all of Brad's fireworks, playing DS together and dancing to all the songs from Mamma Mia! There was plenty of food and drink, and I am embarrased to say that we stayed out until 2 o'clock in the morning!
This year was our turn to host my parents for Christmas Day, but as we got closer to Christmas the roads changed our plans. We agreed that since Thor has four-wheel drive, we would go over to their place. However, two days before the big day, my parents woke up to no electricity! We kept hoping that PGE would get the power back on, but it never happened. So Thor drove over to pick up Grandma & Grandpa and bring them over here for the day. Just as he pulled into their driveway, the power came on! That made it nice because they were able to enjoy the day without worrying about going home to a cold house. We all got spoiled with plenty of gifts and a nice ham dinner.
We were able to celebrate Christmas with the Ivanoff family on January 3rd. The snow kept us from our annual trip to Astoria for Christmas Eve. It almost looked like we were going to be waylaid by the weather again, but drove over HWY 30 and made it just fine. Here are some of the photos from our celebrations at John & Katrina's home.
We spent New Year's Eve with the Lucas Family. The girls had fun watching all of Brad's fireworks, playing DS together and dancing to all the songs from Mamma Mia! There was plenty of food and drink, and I am embarrased to say that we stayed out until 2 o'clock in the morning!
This year was our turn to host my parents for Christmas Day, but as we got closer to Christmas the roads changed our plans. We agreed that since Thor has four-wheel drive, we would go over to their place. However, two days before the big day, my parents woke up to no electricity! We kept hoping that PGE would get the power back on, but it never happened. So Thor drove over to pick up Grandma & Grandpa and bring them over here for the day. Just as he pulled into their driveway, the power came on! That made it nice because they were able to enjoy the day without worrying about going home to a cold house. We all got spoiled with plenty of gifts and a nice ham dinner.
Since we could not make it to Astoria for Christmas Eve, we went over to celebrate with the Jacobsons. It was a very relaxing, fun night spent with the family, although the drive over and back was pretty nasty with all of the frozen snow ruts on all of the roads.
All in all, Christmas of 2008 will go down in the records for us. Three weeks of Christmas Break, more snow than Portland had seen in over 40 years, cancelled flights out of PDX and flooding rivers as the snow melted and the rain came in. After the snow was done, we set an all time record for 24 hour rainfall, with over 3 inches.
