December 2022

First time ever we went to a tree lot to get a Christmas tree! It started snowing, so we were a bit nervous about driving up in to the hills to our normal tree farm. The kids also didn't care about cutting it down, so I went with the flow! I don't think we will do that again though! Even Maco was sad about missing the tree farm this year!

Mia about had a heart attack this year putting on all the kid ornaments! She wanted it all to be matching and pretty! I don't even care about that!!:)

One of our advent activities-helping at the FISH of Vancouver. People get to come in and "shop" and we weighed their carts and collected their carts afterward! I was so happy we found a day for the kids to come in and volunteer too!

Our Cusack family adopted a family again this Christmas! We had a single mom with 4 kids! they all wanted new bedding, so we got that, a toy and a clothing item to go with it! I love this yearly tradition and am thankful our family is all on board each year!

Mia's 1st game as a Camas Papermaker basketball player! Playing Union, which was super weird since we spent 6 years in the Union gym! Her team won 60 something to something like 17 maybe? 

Loved that I got a tour with Marlana/Kody/Aunt Joann and others that loved Caleb so see the construction of the new harper's playground with the wheelchair swing in honor of Caleb! It is located at Marshall Park in Vancouver. It even snowed!! Can't wait to come play here when it opens this spring! They are still in need of about $400,000 if anyone wants to donate , click here. https://www.harpersplayground.org/playgrounds/marshall-park/ These parks are created for all children to play at! They are amazing!!

The spot where Caleb's wheelchair swing will be located!!

Nay loved decorating her tiny tree for the bonus room thanks for the McCulloughs!

Sibling movie time!

Kinley & Mia being crazy!!

Another advent family experience! Christmas boats at the hotel with the McCulloughs and friends! 

Pool fun!

Advent activity-making cards and leaving $ for people at the machines for free drinks and snacks!

Making the cards for the vending machine gifts!

Pizza time!

Such a fun night, even though the boats were cancelled due to high winds! Second year in a row, too!!

Kyrie got to stay the night with the McCulloughs!

Pancake breakfast with Santa!

Even mom got in for one photo!

Nay and Kyrie wrote letters to Santa!

First Friday, hometown Holidays 

Mia found her friends!!

Hot cocoa with our advent loving activity friends! Paige!

Our traditional tree lighting family pic! Missing the boys at basketball!

All on his own, Kyrie made posters for the 2 Journey theater kids that performed in their last journey show. He printed off pictures from their sports and journey shows they have been in. He researched their school logos and created really nice posters for them! He even got them a little gift. What a sweet and creative spirit he has!!

He gave it to them at the Shrek party!

Lucy is so adorable!!

These two are so sweet!

Day #1 of our advent goodies and activities!

 Pajama pants for Mia, sweatpants for Nay and an ugly christmas sweater for Kyrie!

Love our advent tree from Great Grandma Eaton!

Lucy is 1 month old! Dec 6th!

Making the Christmas chain countdowns!

Mia gets a layup vs White Salmon-Beat them by a lot as well!

Sittee and Bub Blazer game date!

CHS C team! Yay mia!!!

Mia & Maco going over CHS game film!

St Nick day! 

The kids put out their shoes and get new Christmas jammies!

This is what it looks like at Kyrie's bball practice when Nay has to come sometimes! Sleeping in the car!

Another advent tradition-holiday socks!

Another mama/son trip for b-ball! this time to AZ! 

The first of 4 stops in the Made Hoops circuit! AZ, Beaverton, Cali, and championships in Vegas!

We made it!

Eating dinner at one of my favorites! Red Robin!

Game day!! 

This complex was amazing! 

About 25 b-ball courts on one side and 30 v-ball courts on the other!

Some plays from the tourney! Won the first game 53-33 vs AZ Hoop Code, apparently #1 team in AZ, but I'm not so sure about that!

Papa got to come watch!!

Watching Maco's game in Idaho and caught Nay on the screen! She got to fly with the team and Maco for a game at NNU. She was great, got to sit on the bench and had the best time!

Assistant Coach Naomi!

Eating at Momo's house!

One of Maco's player's, Momo's little brother, Gerald. Kyrie went up and introduces himself to him at the tourney!

Won the second game by 1! 57-56 vs Arizona Unity Black. They were up a lot and almost lost it!

Won the 3rd game 52-42 vs UPLAY Genesis. We were down a bunch and came back to pull off the win!

They went 3-0 on the weekend!!

Kyrie's team came out ranked 5th on the west coast! We play the top 3 teams next weekend at the second Made hoops tourney! Gonna be a tough weekend!

What a great tourney! Next up, Beaverton January 21/22!

Gotta get Dunkin Donuts in AZ!

Visited the AZ Compass Prep School!

Also visited the ASU campus and were able to sneak into the football stadium while they were setting up for graduation!

Kyrie went on a little photo shoot!!

Kyrie and his teammate Baylor had fun checking out the campus! It was such a beautiful sunny day!

After the ASU visit, we had fun checking out a farmer's market nearby! They had a freestyle dance comp we enjoyed watching, we even saw Santa and played free put put golf! It was such a fun afternoon!

Sad to be going home???

Kyrie won this t-shirt at the journey Christmas party! It was hilarious! A pic of each of the artistic team on unicycles!! Of course he somehow figured out how to come home with the best white elephant gift of the night!

Running our of room to put the last 14 years of Santa pictures!!

Naomi being her crazy self!!

Ugly Christmas sweater day for spirit week at skyridge!

National Hot cocoa day!

Making reindeer food!

Happy 16th birthday, Josiah!

Nay making Josiah's cupcakes!

CHS Vs Skyview! Won by about 20!

Another advent activity- making her own Christmas garland that she put around her barbie house!

Naomi made these ornaments at the neighbor's house!

Our nannying Christmas party!

Book exchange!

St Lucia day! 

Nay gets to serve the cinnamon rolls as the oldest girl for the night!

Dance party!

Of course our party has to have cookie making!!

Making ornaments!

Storytime!

Library scavenger hunt!

Time to frost!

Nay loves to vlog!

Advent activity- Target challenge with the McCulloughs!

Boys shop for girls and girls for boys!

A little cookie decorating before sharing the gifts!

Categories-favorite drink, favorite snack, something to try, something that reminds you of the other

Nay made this ornament at school!

Spending time with Grandpa Busby!!

And cousin Hudson!

Sleepover with Hudson!

Advent activity-Ringing the bell for the Salvation army with Auntie and Kinley!

Nay had a blast singing and dancing to welcome in the customers!

Best salvation army ringers ever! Raised almost $300! People were loving Nay and dropping money like crazy!

Sittee stopped by to ring for a bit, too!!

Nay lasted 1.5 hours and need to rest the end of our 2 hour shift!!

Advent activity- Christmas movie at the Posners on the big screen!

Fun house set to music in our neighborhood!

Another video by Naomi Marie!

Preschool holiday movie and pajama day!

We surprised Mia at her game in Kent!!! She didn't think we were coming, let alone the Inversos!!

Mia had a great game!! They won by about 30!

Cheering on the varsity team!

Pizza night!

Naomi loves spending time with Macy and she is so good with her!

Breakfast made by these two!

Decorating gingerbread men!

Mia loves Taylor Swift and Naomi made signs all over the house "from" Taylor for Mia! So sweet!!

GFU Game!! 

Love that Kyrie gets to sit on the bench!

Love that they put their arms around each other in the timeouts!

Kyrie loves to be apart of the huddles!

Kyrie playing 1-1 with the opposing team's coach's son! Love hoe he befriends everyone!

Advent activity-indoor snowball fight!!

Advent activity-gingerbread houses!!

Big booties!!!!:)

These two crack me up!!

Advent activity-family game night! Charades!

Mia friends had a secret santa exchange and christmas party!

Advent activity-making hot cocoa bombs with the McCulloughs! I whipped out a fun Christmas carol game from 15+ years ago with I was teaching!

The boys were the winners!!!

The McCulloughs were so sweet and made cupcakes in honor of Josiah's 16th birthday!

Kyrie's BFF gets to sit on the bench and help chart the game!

No sure what Dad is doing in this pic!:)

Nay and her selfie!

Kyrie befriended the head coach's son of the opposing team and played some one on one!

Making a treat for the birds!

Nay braving the wind and freezing temps to help deliver our Christmas cards!! She loved it!

Naomi spent a long time making the beds and cleaning up her reading area in the bonus room. All on her own!

Eaton family zoom on Dec 23rd!

Our crazy family singing Jingle Bells!

Loved our 5 days of family time when Maco had off from b-ball practice! We were also iced in so had lots of family game and movie time!!

December 24th!! Christmas is here!

Making chocolate covered pretzels!

Christmas Eve tradition-watching Elf!!

Christmas Eve bball workout!

Ready for Christmas Eve with the Cusacks!!

Auntie putting on her jammies over her dress!!

The Gunters!!! Wish they were here this year!

The most adorable Christmas baby!

Cousins!

All older cousins all totally wanted to wear these pajamas for the picture!!:)

Cusack cousins! Hoping to be together again for Christmas next year!

We haven't see Brooke and Carson since before covid! I was happy to see the kids get along well and have fun together!

Cousin gift exchange!

Gift from Carson to Mia!

Zooming in with the Gunters and Yaya & Cole & Quinn!

Game from Papa & Yaya!

Kinley's gifts from Yaya & Papa!

Gifts from Yaya & Papa

2022 Ornaments from Yaya!

Our family ornament for the year is from our Disney World trip!

Christmas Eve family game time with our new game made by the Holderness Family!!! Super fun!!

Nay loving her new gifts from Yaya & Papa and Kinley!

The Polar Express!!

Ready for Santa!

Sprinkling her reindeer food!

Christmas Eve tradition-sleeping together!

Santa has been here!

These two ended up in bed together!

Christmas morning!!

Waiting on the stairs!!

Time to come down for Christmas!!

Giant squishmallow for Mia from naomi!

Yearly calendars from Dad!

NBA 2K from Mia!

Kyrie picked out mugs for us! ;)

Kyrie got Naomi a stuffy!

Kyrie got Mia this tote bag! Her two favorite places!!

Nay got Kyrie his yearly nutcracker!

Naomi loves her soft unicorn blanket from Yaya & Papa!

Nay got another snow globe to add to her collection!

Nay loved her unicorn blanket from Yaya & Papa!

Christmas at Sittee's! Loved having Cousin Hudson and Auntie Albany join us!!

Stockings!

Nay made Sittee an ornament!

Naomi has been wanting slime forever!!!! She was so excited!!

Naomi got a fun color of converse from Sittee!

Noami loves her new doll with hair like she has!

7 weeks!!

Naomi didn't waste any time making slime!

Playing a new game from Yaya and Papa called Connect 4 Spin!

Mia's gift from Great Grandma Cusack!

Naomi's gift from Great Grandma Cusack!!

Maco and his siblings!

Visiting Grandpa Busby!

Mia had a bball tourney over winter break! Naomi cheered them on with her new pom poms from sittee!

Mia's team played great and they won the first game

Sibling b-ball always during halftime!

Dad finally got to watch Mia play!!Yay!!

Ready for game #3. Winner takes 3rd!

Mia highlight!

Mia with the assist!

Mia with the jumpshot!

Well the game didn't turn out how we'd hoped, but the team got 4th and Nay gave a very powerful talk after!:)

Love our yearly winter playdate at Miss Staci's gym over break!!

Naomi put on her own cheer camp at home!

GFU team Christmas party! Had to delay until after Christmas this year due to illnesses and flight cancellations! 

Love having the boys at our house!

The families!!

Maco's traditional burrito dinner!

So happy Maco got to see his BFF, JB, from Eastern Oregon at a b-ball tourney this month!

New year's Eve 2022!!

Two of the three desserts we made for our party! The top ones remind me of intestines or poop, but they were soooo good!!:)

Love our traditional new year's eve party with the Gibsons & Neslands!!

These boys attempting to sing the alphabet holding their tongues in a fun game we played!

Love these two a whole bunch! Been doing life with them for decades and so thankful!!

And love doing life with these 3 as well!

Sparkling cider to ring in the new year!

Cheers to 2023!!

So thankful for this guy in 2022 and looking forward to an adventurous 2023 together!!

We have been having fun watching the varsity boys and girls CHS teams play this year! Of course Kyrie gets in on the cheering and sign holding!