Day at the Beach

We enjoyed an unusually warm January day visiting the beach of a nearby coastal town. We ate some sandy sandwiches, found some gigantic "beached" jelly fish, and climbed the steep sand dunes.

Robbie explored the ground, and Mikey was afraid of the waves that were "coming to get us!" He played more in the parking lot mud puddle than he did at the beach.

We left early because Emily had a tummy ache. She didn't even touch her ice cream sunday that we bought on our way home. And Mikey was so exhausted, one minute he was in the car seat eating his ice cream cone, the next minute he was asleep with the ice cream cone in his lap.

Christmas morn at the Andersons

We didn't do any traveling this Christmas, so our family kept Christmas spirits high with just the five of us. We had a Christmas made memorable mostly by its simplicity. 

Roadways from Seattle to Portland were snowy the week before Christmas, but Marta braved the roads from Seattle and slid into town on Christmas Eve. We were happy to have her safely here. Thanks so much, Martina.

The pony was a last minute gift that we got for Emily an hour before BiMart closed on the 24th, as a back up because Santa's helpers (UPS) didn't get her main gift here until after the 25th.

Adam is all about whipped cream on waffles and berries for Christmas breakfast. He made sure we had all the stuff on hand for this Anderson tradition. After breakfast, Mikey moved his caravan of monster trucks, racecars, and trucks down the hallway, all together on Christmas morn.