more washington photos

we had fun at sharon's for christmas.  everyone was there, except for leah and her family.  brynn got a leapster and ava got a razor scooter from santa.  the night before emma threw up and on x-mas day dexter did not feel good.  wasn't sure what was wrong, but gave him some baby tylenol to ease whatever pain he was in.  brandon was so tired that he slept for most of christmas day.  he did managed to play some cards with us and when rhonda and laura yelled at him (rhonda yelling at him for being slow and laura yelling at him because he beat her by one point), he went to bed.  :) 

erika has her baby bump and she looked really cute.  baby is due on july 7.  she will find out the sex of the baby sometime in february. 

we left on sunday morning around 8:20 and got to diamond springs at 9:40.  we found out on christmas day that clara had passed away at 4:00 that morning.  we were so hoping that we would be able to see her, but i guess it was her time to go.  we will miss playing cards with her.

we got home on monday late afternoon and it feels good to be home.  dexter is feeling better too and is back to his old prancy self.  all we need to do now is sell our place!

brynn building her snowman - before and after

laura loves our furry babies

dexter is so pooped.  resting his head on the bar of the chair



emma likes to look at you while you are driving and she will keep on looking until you pet her.  the landscape on the left is of klamath falls.  the blue sign in the right picture welcomed us back to california!



washington photos - day 3



sharon made the snowman - so cute!  as you can see, we were bribing emma and dexter with treats so i could get a picture of them :)




emma is modeling




isn't this cute???  i am not that artistic - rhonda made them.




according to brynn, that is frosty the snowman's house :)




aaron shoveling snow as emma and dexter watches




dexter having fun in the snow.  at the beginning he always shivers, then he's okay after he runs around.




sharon made cookies for x-mas. 




aaron helped decorated them




brynn was watching and dexter was begging for crumbs :)




rhonda making swedish creams - one of my favorites :)




aaron is such a good helper!




brynn watching strawberry shortcake movie on my laptop :)



on the road

we got on the road at 4:30 on sunday morning to head to washington.  we made it in 15-1/2 hours.  emma and dexter did really well - we stopped 4 times for them for potty breaks.  below are some pictures on the way to our destination.



mt. shasta




this was our view as soon as we passed the california border into oregon.  we saw this view for the next 4 hours.  never ending route 97.




our rest stop in bend, oregon.  i thought dexter wouldn't like the snow because he gets cold easily - proved me wrong.  emma and dexter doesn't mind the snow at all.




an imprint of my license plate




aaron getting snow off the car.



emma had a puppy