We had a great December! Basketball is in full swing, and they are doing really well. They finished their non-conference part of the season at 7-2 and lost by only 9 to each of the teams they lost to. Maco feels they are can be competitive with any team they play, and we're looking forward to a fun season! The Bruins are starting 2014 1-0 in the conference with a game tonight at my alma mater, PLU!
We loved having family here with us for the holidays! The kids love spending time with them all, as do we! We are looking forward to an exciting 2014! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
Fun time playing in the snow with friends!
Tree lighting in downtown Camas with buddies!
Mia loves getting her picture taken!
Loved our new little tradition of attending the Christmas tree lighting!
The kids loved the craft time at the tree lighting!
Even got to see Santa for a free picture with no line to wait in! Kids weren't necessarily wearing what I would choose for a Santa picture, but love how the picture turned out!
All ready for a fun Christmas season!
It's gingerbread house time!
As you can see, we let the kids do all the decorating!
Game night with family! Kelly's boyfriend(Quinn), Uncle JoZef, Auntie Katie, Marlana(cousin), Yaya!
Charades acting out Tim Tebow!
Aynsley & Tate helping Mia do her math homework with pasta!
Celebrating St. Nicholas Day on December 6th! St. Nick filled their shoes with Christmas pjs and goodies!
Yah for Christmas jammies!
Loving the snow we get since we're up on the hill now.
Even the fox loves the snow!
Gotta have hot cocoa on a snow day!
I collected food for Walk n Knock with the Camas Mom's club! I think it was about 20 degrees this day! And a couple of us may or may not have fallen while walking up these icy hills!!:) I won't mention any names though.....
Thank you Miss Sheila for helping us make reindeer food for Christmas Eve!
Sittee helping Mia make her paperdoll into a Lebanese girl for school!
Girls night out to see The Hunger Games at Cinetopia! Loved the movie and the movie parlor theater! Best theater ever!
Kyrie picked out his outfit this day, and I thought he did a pretty good job matching! I think the hat lasted about 10 minutes!
Just a typical lunch in the Hamilton household!
Kyrie helping me put bows on the gifts!
Santa's workshop put on for free by a local church. Mia had so much fun making crafts, eating pizza, decorating cookies, watching a Christmas movie and much more! And she even got to do it with her friend, Heidi! Can't wait to do it again next year!
Blurry, but had to share......Our attempt at trying to get cousin Christmas pictures....Auntie Kelly had to lay on the ground with a black blanket over her to get Kinley to be a part of the pictures! The things you'll do for kids!:)
This was the best we could get!! Kinley really didn't want to take any pictures!
Mia 5 1/2 & Kyrie 2 1/2 Kyrie on the other hand was
Kinley 2 years old
Riding the Polar Express at the mall!
Baking cupcakes in honor of big brother's 7th angelversary on December 15th!
They loved it!
Wish Josiah was here to celebrate his 7th birthday with us, but love this special time remembering him.
Thank you to Sittee for taking us to the Gospel Christmas concert this year!
We had a double date with Sheila to the concert, too!
My little wrapper!
Doing our daily Advent calendar from Great-Grandma Eaton!
Advent calendar #2!
Special goodies from inside the doors!
Holiday party with our Camas-Washougal Indoor Playpark friends!
Santa even made an appearance! He was telling Kyrie he's heard he's been very good this year! Kyrie was listening so intently, making sure not to get too close! So cute! ;)
Our annual decorating cookies with the Neslands and Grandma Pam!
Loved having the George Fox boys at our house for the basketball Christmas party!!
Maco reading the traditional poems that the boys write about each other! They were hilarious!
Wearing our pj's and riding in the swagger wagon with hot cocoa and popcorn looking at all the neighborhood lights!
Love this house that does an amazing light display to music!
Daddy was our chauffeur
Papa and Mia asleep on the couch together! Loved having Papa, Yaya, Auntie Katie, & Uncle JoZef stay with us this year for Christmas!
I love the sweet friendship that has developed! They say things like, "Brother and sister forever", " I love you forever!" I need to get a video of the sweet things they say.
Visiting Sittee at work for Saturday donuts!
The Nutcracker with our sweet friends Bernice & Joyie!
Love taking my girl to the Nutcracker and having this traditional mommy/daughter date for the past three years now!
Of course there has to be lots of baking at Christmas time!
Celebrating St Lucia! Mia gets to serve sticky buns in her white robe and pink crown!
Of course Papa is first to eat!
Craft time with Yaya!
Helping decorate Sittee's Christmas tree! I love this picture!
Kaady Christmas! Second cousins, Kyrie and Rowan, had so much fun running around after each other!
Cousin play time!
Sittee even had a pinata with our mexican food theme this year!
Ah the mad dash for the candy!
Christmas Eve @ Grandpa & Grandma Peggy's house!
Annual sister picture on Christmas Eve at the Eaton family Christmas(Mom's family)!
Kyrie & Marlana
The happy newlyweds!
The annual cousin/BFF picture with a photo bomber!
Merry Christmas!
Kyrie loves making music!
Mia, cousin Sam, and Uncle David singing Christmas carols!
Uncle JoZef loves taking pictures like I do! Yeah!
Present time.....they weren't excited at all!
Holidays are basically the only time Maco and I take pictures together! :) Not my favorite, but it will do!
Apparently Auntie Kelly needs a sign to get kisses!
Kyrie hamming it up as always!
Cookies, milk, and reindeer food out on lawn! All ready for Santa!
Mia & Kyrie wanted to sleep together in the same room for Christmas Eve! Love starting this tradition like my sisters and I used to do!
Apparently Santa stopped by!
Kinda had to recreate the "coming down the stairs" action. When the kids woke up, Mia got Kyrie out of the crib and they walked down on their own! It didn't even dawn on me to give Mia strict instructions on waking us first, since I didn't think she would get Kyrie out of the crib! Oh well....memories!
I loved Mia saying, "I didn't really see anything, Mom, but I think I got something I really wanted from Santa!" :)
And here it is....the coveted Leap Pad! Kyrie got a train table from Santa, too!
Kyrie loves the drums!!
Best stocking pictures I could get!!
Since we host the whole family, there are a lot of presents under the tree!
It wouldn't be Christmas without Great-Grandma Cusack's monkey bread that we made! One of the best things ever!
Hello Kitty is a favorite of Mia's right now!
Mia was thrilled with her "American Girl" doll from Great-G & G Cusack!!
Maco cooked breakfast for everyone and kept blowing fuses, so he had to cook on the floor! Classic!
Brother & sister game time!
Ah, how sweet!!
Presents take quite a while with 12 people in the family! We did it in two sessions this year!
Uncle Quinn & Yaya enjoying Christmas day!
Christmas brunch at Sittee's house!
Michaela & Kyrie having fun on Christmas!
No words for this picture! :)
Sittee loved her "Sittee's House Rules" sign!
More outfits for Alejandra!
The sibling and spouses picture we've taken for 15 years! We normally add the kids, but Mia was sleeping in the car at the time, since this was our third Christmas event for the day!
The littles and their stockings! Way too hard to get a picture of all three looking and smiling at the same time!
Family!
Santa made an appearance again this year! It was his last stop on the way back to the North Pole!
Kinley wasn't too excited!
Presents for all!
In order to get Kinley to sit with Santa, Auntie Kelly had to be in the picture! Not that she minded! ;)
Special piece of art Yaya made of all of the families!
I love Christmas!
Daddy sportin' his new hat!
Cousin love!
Hanging at George Fox with Daddy at practice to get some more time with him before he left for Vegas the day after Christmas! We also helped Daddy decorate his office since he had everything sitting in bins for the past 4 months! Now it looks like he actually has a family!
Mia sportin' her new outfit from Grandpa and new boots from Yaya & Papa!
New Year's Eve party with the mom's club! Kyrie is ready to party with his newly decorated party hat!
Miss Sheila painting Kyrie's face!
Having a good time with friends!
Mommy even got in on the face painting!
Celebrating the New Year with good friends!
Noon countdown for the kids! Happy 2014!!
New Year's Eve cuddle time with Daddy!
We had a chill new year's eve playing games with the kids and celebrating the new year at 9pm with New York! I'm proud to say that Maco and I did manage to stay up until midnight and ring in the new year again with our west coast friends!
Happy New Year from the Hamiltons! Wishing you a blessed year!
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