Thursday, January 8, 2009

home for the holidays (in Washington)

We went to Washington to be with Adam's family for Christmas this year!

The night we flew in was their church Christmas concert.
Bekah was so excited for me to meet her best friends at church:





Amy leads the kid's choir and they did an excellent job on all their songs and recitations!



Watch Rebekah show off her excellent Away in a Manger skills:



The adult choir, led by Adam's Dad, did an excellent job as always. They even recruited Adam at the last minute to help out the tenors.



Washington had a beautiful white Christmas this year with 18 inches of snow!! And it was still coming down on Christmas Eve. The evergreens looked gorgeous all covered in snow.







Grandma and most of the Bond Family came over on Christmas Eve for dinner, singing, and presents.





The food was as delicious as it looks. :)



And what would Christmas be without a little wrestling?
Here's 26 yr. old Adam vs. 16 yr. old Cedie.



Amy got some cute slippers from Aaron and Anna.



Rebekah got a guitar... she's still working on proper holding technique ;)



A couple photos by Bekah:





Self-portrait:



One of Rebekah's gifts was a twin size bed that used to be Amy's and several others in the family.





Her first reaction was to jump on it! It was cute.



Bekah and cousin Gillian coloring at Grandma's house:



One of Amy's handmade creations: a bag that holds crayons in individual pockets.



We went to this drive through Christmas lights show in Tacoma. Rebekah really liked it.







We took a day trip to Seattle to go see the Nutcracker Ballet. It was so fun watching Bekah: she was loving every minute of it!







Interesting find in a Seattle Mall: a book vending machine!


2 comments:

The Hangs said...

I can't believe you saw the Nutcracker without me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Adam is OFFICIALLY NOT off the hook anymore concerning choir... and I might even throw his name in there should we need any future choir directing! :)

Sheri said...

Wow looks like you guys had fun! Happy New year!!!