A Christmas Story in the the Big City

One of my favorite holiday movies is "A Christmas Story". It is great story of little Ralphie and his Christmas wish for a "Red Rider" beebee gun. In the end he receives it from his father along with some wonderful family moments that he will remember for a life time. For the first time, the movie was set into a musical and performed at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle--Excellent!
Jeff, Wyatt and I went to Seattle overnight, stayed at the "Hyatt Place Hotel", a great place to stay. It is right across the street from a Lacrosse sports store (instant Christmas shopping), a few blocks away from the best coffee in town - "Uptown Espresso", and they will shuttle you anywhere within a 1 mile radius- evening shopping, Dragon Fish Happy Hour, and the 5th Avenue theater--perfect!
The best part of going to the big ciy is we have family that lives there and were able to visit them. Jeff's sister Janice invited Jane, Tom and our family over for a feast of Christmas cheer and delicious food. She has a lovely apartment on Queen Anne Hill. It was a perfect way to end our stay in Seattle. We are so blessed with family!

Dance, Dance, Dance

We had a great day with the girls on Wednesday. We had pizza lunch with Jeff and Grandma V.H. at Milts and played the day away. Cassy wanted the Wii dance game for Christmas-great idea! Cassy and Lexxy won most the time, but I burned a lot of calories and had fun. Looking forward to another day of dancing next week.

Ohhhh...the LOVE!!!

I don't mean to make you jealous, but it's true...I married a romantic. He remembers our engagement anniversary every year and gives me flowers or sweets. This year, my favorite - 19 chocolate covered cherries and a chocolate bar with a message! Twenty years ago yesterday, December 17, 1990 my sweetheart asked me to marry him and it's been happily ever after.