Peno loves his little tent

Christmas Dinner

We had our tradition of sandwhiches on little breads and some salads, mmm.

The Parents

My dad is sporting the awesome cone hat I brought back from Vietnam

Check out the sweet scarf Tegan made me!

We are fun!

We decided to dress up a little this year good times! The reindeer ears I sent the fam last year, great 100yen store find. Mom and I got Tegan the holiday sweater, but it's not as good as the one we wanted her to wear. That one got sent to her in Seattle but didn't make it in time for her to bring it down- stupid postal service!

Christmas Eve

This is an old southern thing, putting salted peanuts in coke, we started having these on Christmas Eve after we moved to the NW.

Girl Power!

I found this at a thrift store for $1, pretty sweet deal. If this game has a point, we never figured it out.

Peno loves the Christmas Tree

Cute, right? My mom writes our Christmas letter from the cat- yeah I know. When Tegan gets here I'll make her pose for a picture in her Christmas sweater momma and I found at Goodwill- it is a sight to be seen!

We finally got our Christmas Tree

Peno (the cat) likes to sit under it sometimes and smell the pine needles

so this is my life now...

the life of the unemployed who live at home. someone shoot me now :-)

Mm, pho

We squeezed in a Thanh Brothers stop for their delicious veggie pho before heading down to Portland, mmm-mmm! We'd both been craving it and it was everything we'd hoped for.

Seattle

Alison and I went up to Seattle this weekend, were lucky to have great weather though I'm still not acclimatized to the cold, brrrr. It was good to be home- Seattle feels like home so much more than Vancouver ever will. But sadly being there again brought on the ex ex-pat, reverse culture shock, oh my god i really do live here depression that I'd managed to avoid for a week and a half and thought I was escaping. Oh well now that its here I can just hope it will go away soon. If anyone wants to send me some chocolate to get through this difficult time, feel free :-)

CLOGGING!!!

So the main reason I went up to Seattle so soon was to see Tegan's clogging performance, and it was awesome! They had a very tiny space to dance in, but were energetic and it was a foot-stomping good time. Brought back elementary school memories.

Is this not the whitest thing you've ever seen?

Fierce kick!

Pretty!

view of Greenlake from Phinney- it was miraculously clear this weekend, I've never seen the mountains like this in the winter, and alison had never seen the mountains at all since she was never around in the summer, it was beautiful!

the old apartment

I snapped this one as we drove by me and Alison's last apartment building, good times

Ravenna

It's so Seattle-y