Christmas!

Our nieces & nephews reenacted the Nativity scene. Here are the wisemen bringing gifts to Baby Jesus.

My parents came to visit for Christmas, so we took them to see some of the cool places in Seattle, like the Space Needle.

Ryan & Mike's "perfect" fruit pizza. So tasty!

Merry Christmas from Ryan & Debi!

Our 3rd Anniversary

Ryan was so nice to give me this beautiful bouquet of roses! He surprised me by dropping them off at my work before I got there. He left a funny note with the roses inspired by the following joke.

My wife struggled with a career crisis: Should she quit her job? Knowing how panicked she was, I called our florist and sent her a bouquet with a card saying "I believe in you."
Later she called to thank me. "But I'm confused by the card," she said.
"Really? Why?"
"Because it reads 'I be leaving you.'"

Debi's Work Christmas Picture

This is most of the staff at Olympic Physical Therapy where I work. I feel lucky to work with such good, smart, nice, happy people!

"Whistle Down the Wind"

We went to the 5th Avenue Theater last night to see "Whistle Down the Wind." It was a good story, the singers were absolutely amazing, and the theater's extravagant Japanese architecture was really interesting. Ryan and I wondered how they attached that huge dragon above the chandelier to the ceiling! (It really is quite large, much bigger than it looks in the picture.)

Candy Turkeys

This Thanksgiving was my first ever Barrett Family Thanksgiving and Ryan's first since 2001. We enjoyed a wonderful turkey dinner and then we participated in the traditional candy turkey building. We had a great variety of candy to use and as you can see, our imaginations went wild! Ryan decided to make a "giant" turkey using an apple for the body and he built his tail on a skeleton of wooden skewers. Everyone's turkeys were ingeniously designed and constructed, although due to the nature of the building materials, all our turkeys slowly fell apart. They were cute while they lasted though!