My New, Cute Haircut

My mom, who is an amazing hairdresser, usually cuts my hair, but due to an unfortunate amount of distance between us, I have had to choose between having a "random" person cut my hair or just not cutting it. My choice=no haircuts in over a year! However, after getting a beautiful haircut from a "random" guy name Kenny yesterday, I think I will be able to handle future haircuts from "randoms" . . . but hopefully I will be able to stick with my new friend, Kenny, for a while.

Ryan's Birthday

Ryan's birthday just happened to coincide with his 1st day back to school after Winter Break. Unfortunate timing, but we made the most of it. I got a fancy, little cake & put a tea light on it for him to blow out. Kind of lame, I know, but the cake was quite good & the tea light prevented wax drip on the cake.

I decorated the house with streamers, which Ryan wouldn't let me take down for a week in order for him to fully enjoy them. Party in the house!

We also went to the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma for "Zoo Lights" the Saturday before his birthday. It was amazing to see the profusion of lights all over the zoo grounds!

We thought these big spiders looked pretty creepy floating in the air. Yikes!

My favorite light feature was this huge rainbow.

This tree was another favorite. It was much more impressive-looking in real life. It was absolutely covered with lights!

Christmas in Vista

We flew down to Vista this year to spend Christmas with my family, which means we left all the snow behind. We spent a wonderful six days celebrating Mike's homecoming, having all sorts of family parties, eating good food, walking along the beach, and just enjoying the time together.

Mike is Home!

My brother is back after a two-year mission in Mexico City!

It was great to see him and to remember what an awesome person he is! He is a little different though since now he loves Mexican food, speaking Spanish, . . . and Mexican wrestling masks, like the one modeled by my dad below.

Our 4th Anniversary: 2nd Big Snow Day

We were planning on going out for dinner to celebrate our 4th anniversary, but due to another day of snow, we opted to stay home and make one of our all time favorite meals: spaghetti! And since we just moved and the dining table was buried, we set up this "fancy" meal in the living room.

We did venture out into the beautiful winter wonderland to make some snow angels and write our traditional R+D=(heart) in the snow . . . in the past we have usually had sand to write it in.

And here's our cute new residence. Look how deep the snow was on our front steps!

Seattle's 1st Big Snow Day

Record snows came to Seattle this winter. It was beautiful and fun despite being incredibly inconvenient and dangerous for our not-so-snowy city. My work was cancelled for 2 days since the driving conditions were so bad downtown. Lucky for me! My first "snow days" ever!

The 1st day it snowed and stayed, we thought we would have so much fun playing in it. Ryan is making a snowball in this picture. We decided to walk over to the park with our neighbors, but we were freezing by the time we got there so we didn't stick around to play much. You must not get as cold in the snow when you are little. It is so much more fun as a kid!