Off to Portland for Christmas

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Made it to Portland in fine time. We hit the road at 0930 and made it to grandmas around 1300 with a few stops along the way(none for traffic ) after arriving at Steve and Liz's we visited and had some great home made soup. Then it was off to the Kernens (Liz's sisters family) for festivities. Well it's now around 0600 Christmas morning and I am in my favorite chair in front of the fireplace doing what I do best.

Holidays @ Bill & Robins

We picked up John at Southcenter from his bus ride home from WSU for the Christmas break. Headed down to Bill and Robins for another great chicken bbq. As you can see by the picture Robin is loving having her youngest home after some time now adjusting to the empty nest syndrome. Hopefully Adam will be coming in from southeast Asia where he has been trekking since early Oct. He is trying to get home the 17h. (Check out his blog here) We all have our fingers crossed he can score on a seat on the oversold flights from BKK/NRT/SEA. Boy will mom be smiling then. All her boys home at once. Billy, Adam, John, and Sparkey!
Anyway it's Sunday morning and this is the week of getting together with friends and family so I probably will be checking in regularly with updates.
Time to get some fresh coffee:)
Catch You Later tommy:)

Sunrise Chat

We are at home scheduling ourselves for the Christmas holidays. Had a memorable sunrise this morning. I think it was because of all the rain we have had the atmosphere is so clear. I can't remember the sun being as bright as it was this morning. I got up to take a peek and was seeing spots for 10min afterwords. As you can see in the picture the amount of light coming in. Anita is off to an annual Clipped Wings luncheon today. I think because its so nice out I will attempt to clean some of the debris that the high water and storm brought in.