Hamilton Happenings......: It's the Most Wonderful Time if the Year!

We have visited the same tree farm for 8 years now! We go all the way to Ridgefield to our former tennis player's farm!

Sittee was able to join us this year!!

Kyrie isn't letting anyone snag our tree!

Our family has muscles!

My favorite part.....Decorating time!

The kids get to decorate a tree for the playroom, too!

Our sweet cousin, Kinley! Love our cousin pictures we take every year! 4 years and counting........

They do love each other! ;)

Kyrie(3 1/2), Kinley(3), & Mia(6 1/2)

We visited Santa at First Friday in downtown Camas!

We visited another Santa on the night of the big wind storm and huge power outage in the complete dark! The only light was the photographer's light, but there was no line! Score! Although I think this Santa wasn't too happy about not having power because he looks very grumpy! Aren't Santas supposed to be jolly??!!?

We love the dancing lights down the street from our house! We visited this house about 6 times during the holidays!

Superhero play date!

Ah....getting married!

Tree lighting in downtown Camas

Love our friends!

Waiting with much anticipation for the big moment of the tree lighting!

It's officially the Christmas season!

Nothing better on a cold night than hot chocolate with friends!

Crafts for first Friday!

So proud of his ornament!

St Nicholas Day! I love continuing some of the Christmas traditions I did in my class with my own kids!

Every year the kids get their Christmas jammies on St Nicholas day!

Our moms' club participated in the Walk n Knock again this year! Such a difference a year makes, since last year it was 20 degrees with snow and ice! Made 40 degrees this year seem warm!

So glad Mia got to walk with us this year!

Love our advent calendar tradition! From my Grandma Eaton's house!

Fun advent surprises and tiny gifts behind each door every day!

Watching the Christmas boats in the Camas/Washougal port! Well attempting to at least. Trying to watch from a warm spot inside didn't work so well.

So we moved the party outside....you can barely see the boats in the background....my kids look scared!;)

Posing with the puffin on the water.

Pajama/Movie night with the moms' club at our house.

Our advent calendar activity for the afternoon was to wrap presents, and even after the power went out, we were determined to do it! Thank goodness for candles and cell phone flashlights, because of course we didn't have any working flashlights in the house!

Dinner and Santa with the Rapisardas during the power outage!

This is what happened during one of the wind storms in our area. Our fence fell down and fell on the trampoline and bent the poles.:(

We rode up with the team in the school van for the SPU game! Such fun memories!

Dicks at 10:30pm with the team! I've never experienced this iconic place!

The kids loved staying the night at the hotel!

Looking forward to some Seattle exploring!

On our way to Pike Place and Kyrie puttin' on a show for the boys!

Love my boys!

Daddy's girl!

Loved our family time in Seattle!

Nothin' like riding the carousel outdoors at Christmas time!

Pike Place Market! Nice cone placement. :)

Fun times with the Bruins!

Our Girl Scout troop caroling for the elderly at the Fairgate!

Giving them the lap blankets they made!

Love this service project!

Baking time~making cupcakes for Big Brother Josiah's 8th "angelversary"!

Remembering Josiah with cupcakes and watching the movie of his birth. It seemed to really hit Mia this year as she couldn't stop sobbing.:( They both miss their big brother so much!

Decorating cookies for the firemen and police officers! Wouldn't you want to eat cookies frosted by 3 year olds? I know I would!

Ready to give our cookies with friends!

All of the kiddos ready to deliver!

Delivering our cookies!

The policemen were very thankful for our cookies.....or at least they pretended to be.....:) And such a small world, this officer went to high school with me.

Bring cookies and you get to check out the fire truck!

Kyrie & his teacher. The class put on a short singing program for Christmas!

Fun times in JC Penney!

The kids as honorary salvation army bell ringers!

Bruin Christmas party! Maco rocked it Chipotle style!

Best part of the party, Maco reading the boys' poems they write about a teammate! Hilarious!

Kyrie was so excited to give his first teacher gift to Mrs. Nuce!

Puzzle time with Papa! Funniest quote from Papa....."All the pieces are the same shape!"Ah yah, Papa, that's how puzzles work!

This was the 4th year that Mia and I attended the Nutcracker, second year with our dear friends the Mosbruckers!

Love my sweet, beautiful girl!

Hot chocolate date after the Nutcracker!

Yoga time with Auntie katie!

We love having our family in town! Story time with Auntie Katie & Uncle JoZef!

Cuddle time with Papa!

Caroling with the Moms' Club and look who answered the door!

Mia's letter to Santa asking for his phone number......He is still wondering why he hasn't written back.....maybe I need to take care of that.....

Making our reindeer food!

This happened a lot during the week of Papa & Yaya visiting!

Out to breakfast! Sad that Maco was in Cali for bball.

Papa & Mia reading the news!

Another advent activity(Thanks, Michelle!), snowball fight with socks! So fun!

Afternoon fun at Chuck E Cheese with Auntie Katie and Uncle Zef while Mia and I were on our Mommy/Daughter date!

Decorating cookies for Santa!

Yum!

Decorating our yearly Christmas cookies with the Neslands and Grammy!

Christmas family game night fun!

It's Christmas Eve!

The first gift of Christmas! Mia got Kyrie a snow globe, which he really wanted! Unfortunately, a day later he tried to shoot a basket with it and the plastic cracked. No more snow globe! :(