Our Christmas this year! Not my best Oh Holy Night performance because we had less than 15 minutes to put this together last minute. But enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w27sfANlLBE
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Much Thanksgiving
Since the last post our family has been involved in a tons of stuff. Thanksgiving found us celebrating with the Dave and Kim's family. We played games, ate lots of food and of course stuffed ourselves in our turkey but our turkey was not not stuffed with stuffings though because that dries up the turkey you see. WOW our turkey was so moist the meat fell off the bones as we lifted it. Yummy....
The day after Thanksgiving I was involved in an Annual Macy's Christmas parade downtown. It's a pretty big thing for Seattlites and a lot of people participated. I marched for the 5th Avenue Theater's A Christmas Carol. We got free tickets to go see it and can't wait!
Christmas means pictures and since I started this hobby, a couple of families asked me to do their pictures. Check out my photograhy blog! http://seastevensphotography.blogspot.com/ We also decided to take a family portrait as well for our Christmas cards. We just got the tripod out, I set it up and cheese! See how much the kids have grown since June when we took this picture by the lake?
You know winter has started in the northwest when almost every night before you go to sleep you hear the sound of the raindrops on your roof top. Yes we're getting more rains in, but we're still not quite sure why it rains so much at night. We love it. During the day it drizzles a bit but the sun comes out and dries up the rain and yes, we do see rainbows here quite often. The kids love that. My mom though, did not see much rain at all while she was here. My mom came out totally expecting to see rain, but nope. She was out here for 6 days and 5 days of it was sunny with 1 partially cloudy day. We were able to do outdoor things with her but she didn't care to see anything except her grand kids. She really enjoyed her time with them. She knows she already loves Seattle and is planning on moving here after my siblings are done with school (fingers crossed). We did take her to the Seattle Center to see all the Christmas lights and the famous fountain that plays music. She had me prepared the paper work to bring all of her siblings to the U.S. A day I hope to see soon. It would be a wonderful day. She is missed.
Figgy putting choral competition
Last month I joined Glee Club so I sang with them for the figgy pudding competition to raise money for the Pike Place senior center and downtown food bank. My mom was able to be here to watch the kids so that Dan and I could go to the event together. Dan had a great time and really enjoyed it; most especially because he was able to take his long board down on a block of a downtown street that was blocked off. If you haven't been to Seattle, downtown is very hilly like San Francisco, maybe even worse and about the only area where it's flat is the Westlake center where the event was held. Since then however, he's been riding down by the piers during his lunch break and really enjoys the view of Puget Sound and being so close to the water. Anyway here's a snippet of his fun ride.
We're getting ready for Christmas and getting into the Christmas spirit by doing various different things to help us remember the greatest gift God gave us. His Son. I gave the ward another solo, my 6th solo this year or something like that in the ward. I was asked 2 days before since the person that was supposed to do it couldn't do it anymore so the music coordinator asked me to substitute. There's a lot of talented people. I don't know why she asked me. But anyway I opened the Christmas season for the ward with "What child is this?" Dan got in the spirit of giving also by taking his very nice and thick jacket that he's worn only a couple of times and gave it to a homeless guy. The jacket made the guy's night. Here's a picture of the guy wearing Dan's jacket.
Our recent getting into the Christmas spirit was a visit to the Issaquah Cougar Mountain Zoo where Santa's house and reindeers are currently getting ready for Christmas with friends and had a wonderful time. Reena wrote letters to Santa asking him to bring her gifts to give Jesus.
Brie loved the reindeer.
Reena wants to be an angel for Christmas.
We're doing things out of tradition this year. We're hanging Christmas hats instead of stockings.
Our Christmas cards are out! We hope you all will enjoy what we wrote to you. LOVE, The Stevens.
The day after Thanksgiving I was involved in an Annual Macy's Christmas parade downtown. It's a pretty big thing for Seattlites and a lot of people participated. I marched for the 5th Avenue Theater's A Christmas Carol. We got free tickets to go see it and can't wait!
Christmas means pictures and since I started this hobby, a couple of families asked me to do their pictures. Check out my photograhy blog! http://seastevensphotography.blogspot.com/ We also decided to take a family portrait as well for our Christmas cards. We just got the tripod out, I set it up and cheese! See how much the kids have grown since June when we took this picture by the lake?
You know winter has started in the northwest when almost every night before you go to sleep you hear the sound of the raindrops on your roof top. Yes we're getting more rains in, but we're still not quite sure why it rains so much at night. We love it. During the day it drizzles a bit but the sun comes out and dries up the rain and yes, we do see rainbows here quite often. The kids love that. My mom though, did not see much rain at all while she was here. My mom came out totally expecting to see rain, but nope. She was out here for 6 days and 5 days of it was sunny with 1 partially cloudy day. We were able to do outdoor things with her but she didn't care to see anything except her grand kids. She really enjoyed her time with them. She knows she already loves Seattle and is planning on moving here after my siblings are done with school (fingers crossed). We did take her to the Seattle Center to see all the Christmas lights and the famous fountain that plays music. She had me prepared the paper work to bring all of her siblings to the U.S. A day I hope to see soon. It would be a wonderful day. She is missed.
Figgy putting choral competition
Last month I joined Glee Club so I sang with them for the figgy pudding competition to raise money for the Pike Place senior center and downtown food bank. My mom was able to be here to watch the kids so that Dan and I could go to the event together. Dan had a great time and really enjoyed it; most especially because he was able to take his long board down on a block of a downtown street that was blocked off. If you haven't been to Seattle, downtown is very hilly like San Francisco, maybe even worse and about the only area where it's flat is the Westlake center where the event was held. Since then however, he's been riding down by the piers during his lunch break and really enjoys the view of Puget Sound and being so close to the water. Anyway here's a snippet of his fun ride.
We're getting ready for Christmas and getting into the Christmas spirit by doing various different things to help us remember the greatest gift God gave us. His Son. I gave the ward another solo, my 6th solo this year or something like that in the ward. I was asked 2 days before since the person that was supposed to do it couldn't do it anymore so the music coordinator asked me to substitute. There's a lot of talented people. I don't know why she asked me. But anyway I opened the Christmas season for the ward with "What child is this?" Dan got in the spirit of giving also by taking his very nice and thick jacket that he's worn only a couple of times and gave it to a homeless guy. The jacket made the guy's night. Here's a picture of the guy wearing Dan's jacket.
Our recent getting into the Christmas spirit was a visit to the Issaquah Cougar Mountain Zoo where Santa's house and reindeers are currently getting ready for Christmas with friends and had a wonderful time. Reena wrote letters to Santa asking him to bring her gifts to give Jesus.
Brie loved the reindeer.
Reena wants to be an angel for Christmas.
We're doing things out of tradition this year. We're hanging Christmas hats instead of stockings.
Our Christmas cards are out! We hope you all will enjoy what we wrote to you. LOVE, The Stevens.
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