merry christmas!

rudolph-neil & his gingerbread house


christmas eve at grandma mag's - jack adding to the mountain of gifts


grandma & megan

neil, joe, kelli, alan

annette, woofie, derb

darla making the oyster stew, while nick & brad "help!"

christmas morning... larry & alan's new lacrosse gear, handmade with love by santa's elves

larry amidst the christmas morning debris

dad wearing the new golf visor he got from carrie :)

alan's new seahawk jersey

natalie plays with her gift

larry with his new underwear on his head. gotta make sure it fits right...

neil playing his new wii game

more cousins at christmas - meg, audrey, larry

neil at the cougar mountain zoo's reindeer festival

reindeer!

reindeer extreme close-up

we got rained on

neil & alan try out santa's sleigh

ow, quit it!

alpaca with grass on his head. they make me nervous because they always look to be seriously considering spitting in your face...

uncanny resemblance

all tired out ... time to nap on the dog-pillow. we hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!

december madness

2 more days of school left!

happy Natalie

Alan's basketball team (the little green guys).

Santa making his yearly drive around town in an antique fire truck to collect donations. I thought the older boys might be too cool for it this year.

Wrong - poor Santa was kinda freaked out.

Spencer & Alan eating Christmas cookies with their mouths open, having some kind of fiesta, I guess?

Larry & Co.

Ella & Larry having Sunday dinner together :)

Megan & Audrey

Yay, Pokemon!

karaoke time - oh if you could only hear it.

Aaahh, my ears! turn off the karaoke!

chaos on whidbey island

This weekend Larry and his soccer team (Chaos) traveled to Whidbey Island for the State semi-finals. I stayed home with Neil, and Wade agreed to be the guest-blogger for the weekend. They played two games, went out for two meals, and had an in-room party of half a dozen kids playing X-Box. Hmmmm...here are the pictures we ended up with....

The TV in the hotel room?? I'm sorry, but....Worst. Guest-blogger. Ever. Chaos didn't win their games so they won't be going on to the State Finals next weekend (bummer, it's in Olympia!), but we're sure darn proud of them for making it to the semi-finals.

Larry & Jacob shared a hotel room...here is Jacob's little brother Henry, all wrapped up in a Henry-Burrito :)

On the homefront, it snowed today! Neil and I baked Christmas cookies and enjoyed the first snow of the year.

happy thanksgiving!

We had another wonderful Thanksgiving celebration at the Armstrongs' house this year! Bill, Grandma, Lance, Woofie, Derb. Everything Annette made was so delicious, and I didn't even get a picture of her :(

Renee tries to put shoes on a wiggly Aiden, while Aunt Lizzie helps so much by tickling him

Alan

Lance, Woofie, Lizzie (congratulations Lizzie, you made the blog - what an exciting day, eh?)

Cousin time - Jack, Larry, Elliott, Neil

Curly blonde cuties - Audrey & Aiden

Mari doing the one-armed mom eating position while she holds Chase. Chase & Jacob are sooo cute

Jack, Alan, Larry, Aaron

Because one kind of Jell-O is never enough!

Greg, Grandma, Larry, and an enormous vat of mashed potatoes.

Here are the amazing turkey cookies that Woofie supposedly made himself.