
A nutty time was had by all. Monday we pulled out the tree and decorated it. Wednesday was
Girl Scouts.
Friday we went to
Clam Lights at Coulon Park in
Renton and saw a parade of ships decorated in holiday lights. We went with our friends Kevin and Theresa and their two girls Jordan and Sydney. Heck we even got to go on a horse-drawn carriage ride. The mom's went to
Twilight after. Lucky ducks. The dads sat hung out, watched the munchkins and had a couple of
Snow Caps before Kevin took Jordan home, while Syd
spend the night.
Saturday it was putting up the lights in the yard and realizing oh,
cr@p, we don't have enough for the roof this year--plus I still don't have a harness, and I don't want to fall to my death during the holiday season. Now the house looks semi-ghetto, but we'll suffer through this season and come back with a
vengeance next (kind of like
the Seahawks--
owie).
Saturday afternoon we went to Nichole's birthday party at Hazen Pool. I tread water and had Rae head a rubber ball pack to me over and over again. I think I won the cannon ball contest too, as I was the only adult in the pool and all the 7 and 8 year olds don't have the body mass as of yet to hang with the likes of moi. ;-)
Saturday evening we went over to Doug and Susan's house (Nichole's parents) for the after-party. It was a happy little soiree and everyone brought some tasty things to snack on for dinner. Lynn had made some of Christine's famous Parmesan scalloped potatoes. Phenomenal stuff. (I'm getting bigger just thinking about those again.)
Lynn and I stayed up late and got the house cleaned up and the birthday goodies ready for Rae's birthday party on Sunday afternoon.
We went to the
Castle Ice skating rink here in
Renton where we'd rented a party room and let the kids work up a good cake appetite skating--some for the very first time on the ice.

Party Time
The decorations, of course, were High School Musical. The gifts were all brought unwrapped by her friends and we're donating them to Toys for Tots early this week. (So, yeah, we paid our kid $50 to donate all gifts from her friends to charity. Talk amongst yourselves.)

Nikki, Rae and Nichole
After the ice skating, we came home to a house full of Bergmans and Morins and watched the Seahawks find a way to loose another game. We then had my homemade chili and some Corn Bread from Lynn. After dinner, Owen had some "Happy Cake" as he'd stayed back and napped while Grandpa Jim looked after the place while he slept and we skated.

Ah, the Unbridled Joy of a 7 Year Old
Jim's birthday is Wednesday, so we had a gift opening extravaganza. They both made out with some good loot. None better than Rae's bottle cap necklace which she immediately proclaimed after opening: "Look a beer cap with my letter on it!" Good times.
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