Washington trip

fun at Pikes Market

Santa, Emma and a not very happy Von

Mom and Dad flew us to Washington for a long weekend. I have some anxiety flying anyways.... Add Von to the mix and I thought my head was going to explode!! I couldn't sleep at night the week before and my cat Fido got into a cat fight and ended up with a abscess over his right eye. Chris had to take the cat to a vet the day before we left and they said $500.00 to fix him. Chris said no and they gave us some antibiotics.. we decided if it didn't work we would have to put him down. It was very sad.. The morning we left the abscess popped and it was a mess. I cleaned it the best I could and left him in the house. I have a great friend that watches our house/animals for us, she took great care of Fido and he is all better!!! He has a bald patch over his eye, but his eye is open now and it doesn't look infected. I think he has 3 more lives left in him!!

Von flew like a champ! At the take off he had a smile on his face, it was almost like "I like this and at the same time I'm not quite sure about it" but he did great! It was great to see our family! the kids are so funny and getting so big.. They already have teenager emotions running through them! We mostly just hung out at home, we took the city bus into Seattle Friday and then the commuter train home. It was fun to walk around. Pikes place is always fun... but the same stuff is always there! Still we had a great time. The town my family lives in is a older smaller town. They had a Santa in town, the was no line!!! We all took pictures with Santa.. Von was not a fan of him!! But he got a candy cane out of the deal....

We came back on Sunday, we get through security, the stroller is checked to make sure we are not packing a bomb... I have Von in my arms and I feel wet all down my arm.. Well his diaper leaked!! Perfect timing..... All in all our trip home was good.

It was nice to be home and back in our king size bed!!

Bently

Here is Bently's new family!!

Thanksgiving...... better late than never!

All the kids

Hottie, Uncle Chris and the kids

The entire Chambers family came out for Thanksgiving. We had a great time, I forgot just how loud my family is when we all get together!!! The kids are getting so big... Emma is 10, Kaleb is 7 and Jackson is 5!! Emma went with me to go see New Moon.. she is too cute. She asked if I was team Jacob or Edward? I told her Edward, she said she was Jacob.. During the movie if there was kissing she would cover her eyes!! What a good girl.. The boys are a ruff and tough.. Thanksgiving was fun. We went to Erik's mother in laws, the food was so good!!

Emma was in full scheming mode to have her dad say she could take our dog Bently... Erik and I had already said she was going to take him, but she thought she was getting one over on him!!! Bently LOVES Emma!! He wouldn't leave her side... He stood next to the morning they were leaving and looked at me. I told him to go with her that she was him momma now.... he took off for her and never looked back!! She said he was the perfect dog to ride in the car. We miss him but know it was the best thing for him.. and now our house is so quite!!!!!

Von has been babbling so much!! He started speech therapy and we can see a difference in him. He now says kitty kitty and cookie.. He bring cookies to us and says cookie or he just eats them in the pantry!! He also said ba for ball.. so he is getting better. I know once he starts there will be no stopping him.

We put up our Christmas tree and Von is like a magnet to it!! At first he thought he could throw his toys books and baskets at it.. but now he just likes to touch it. Von also got his first snow!! We bundled him up and Chris pulled him up and down the street in the snow. I think he liked it and was scared all at the same time!! Maybe it was the speed at which Chris was turning and whipping him around that scarred him!! We made a Von snow angel and I know he didn't like that at all!! O well... There will be more snow days