Everyone Home for Christmas

We were all together for Christmas for the first time in a couple of years so we all got together and took a family picture. The home teachers happened by and pressed the shutter on a couple. We did some with the timer.Rose, Eric, and Glen opening presents on Christmas morning.

Jilly in the high chair.

Eric preparing to open his present from Santa Claus.

Jilly with Elmo.

Grandsons opening presents. They really had the hang of tearing off the wrappping paper. Rip, tear, and move on to the next present. Oh, were we supposed to look at the presents? The unwrapping is so much fun.

The kids are all here for Christmas vacation and we are so thankful that they made it. While the past few days have been cold and snowy it seems that the timing was good for Saturday travel at least coming from Utah and Idaho. It started snowing here quite hard just before Holly and family got here and has snowed pretty much since.

We drove the 4x4 to church today and were kind of glad to have it right now. The main roads and streets were plowed but the side streets were pretty snowy. After we got home from church it started snowing some more. It will be good to just hunker down here in the house for a few days now that everyone is here.

Eric is home for Christmas

Eric got home this evening. He had some bad roads through the Blue Mountains of Oregon. So glad he got home safely. What a relief when he walked in the door.

YYSO Concert at the Yakima Valley Museum

This is Rose playing at the museum on Saturday. She had a lot of playing time this past week.

Bot Competition

It has been a crazy day today. Well actually all week I guess. Rose is in the orchestra for YVCC's production of Cinderella. She has had rehersals and or performances every night this week. She also had YYSO rehersal on Mondy night. Today she had a YYSO performance. She had a solo part in one of the movements from "Carmen" and she also played duet with one of the oboe players. Then she had two performances of Cinderella. In the meantime, Glen is competing in the robot competition at the High School. After I watched Rose's YYSO performance I went over to the high school to see Glen. His team finished second over all. He is so relieved that it is done. And so am I. Not just the robot competition but also the whole busy week.