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It's BASEBALL SEASON!
Yahoo!

Well Alex started playing baseball on the 17th of this month. As you read earlier, he had his first homerun that day. On friday night I sat in the POURING down rain for two hours and enjoyed him playing again. Now being a true Seattlite- I don't own an umbrella so I was SOAKED to the bone. But I got a few pictures.



On Saturday we chose a dryer way to enjoy the game, we parked the van on the hill behind the outfield and let Josiah & Mikayla (My best friends daughter who spent the day with us) watch a movie so we could enjoy the game.

Josiah is a little silly....

A few days ago he begged me to draw a happy face on his belly so he could make it talk. I don't know where he gets his sense of humor.

What a Crazy week!

Ok first, I went on our bi-annual women's retreat with my church, it was so fantastic! I am already looking foward to the next one. Below is a picture of my room mates- Kim, Stacie & Jennifer. We stayed up lated playing spoons & pranks.



While I was at Women's Retreat Alex had his opening game for baseball. He called me saturday afternoon to tell me he hit a HOMERUN!?!?!?!!! I couldn't believe I missed his first one! Sorry no pictures of baseball yet, since the last two games have been rained out. I am hoping to see him hit another home run soon! I am so glad he has a sport he really enjoys!

Alex's Weekend!

This was a busy weekend for us. Alex was asked to be on the AWANA Games again this year. This will be his last year in AWANA so these games were special to watch.


After 10 different games his team came out on top, first place! what an exciting day. The games involve running around the AWANA cirlce, tossing the bean bag & my favorite the 4 way tug of war.


On Sunday Alex had a Baseball Jamboree. It was a good practice game for the boys. Sorry, I didn't get any pictures. As I was sitting there under four blankets, and bundled up to avoid the wind & rain, I decided that pulling my camera out of my pocket envolved exposing myself to the conditions. Hopefully at the start of baseball season next week the weather will be a little nicer, or I will find a better parking spot that will allow me to watch from the car.

New Addition!

We got a new addition in our house. For those of you who may not know here is the background: David and I have always had one car, for seven years, we have juggled schedules, waited around and begged other people for rides when needed. well this week marks a huge milestone in the Lewis household... a second car. It's hard to see in this photo cause of the snow, but it's there behind Alex. It's a Kia Sedona, and we love it. Yes it's a minivan, but I don't think I could handle another baseball season with one car. What a huge blessing it is for us, we are already enjoying the benefits of the second car!

Snow!

We got 6" of snow last night! It was an interesting storm, Mukilteo and Everett got hit hard and everyone else around us got 2-3" and just 5 miles south of us didn't get anything. For fear of freezing, I stayed in the house while david took the boys out. That was my excuse anyways, I have 3 quilts that need to be finished sooner or later. :-)




My little snow angel- which can be deceiving... he came in bouncing off the walls so I am not sure if 'angel' is a good description. :-)

Here is the picture that is worth a THOUSAND words... Mikayla's first look at the castle in Disneyland.



For more great shots and stories or our adventure look below & check out Kim's blog (Link on the right!)

Disneyland!!!

We were so lucky this last week to be given the opportunity for a 3 day getaway to Disneyland, my favorite place (David really came along to make me happy).

After a two hour flight delay, my best friend, Kim and her family picked us up at the Orange County airport for a day of fun at the Magic Kingdom. This was a dream come true for me. Mikayla, Keith's daughter, was coming with us. A 5 year old girl, who still believes in all that Magic. I got her a Cinderella dress to wear for the day & Cinderella even sent Mikayla a crown & an invitation for lunch with the Princesses.

Our first stop was to show her the Castle. The look on her face was priceless. I love seeing a child's first response to such a wonderful site.



It really was a blast. After they left on Thursday we spent Friday & Saturday Morning just by ourselves. It was a great time together wandering around and enjoying each other's company. We kept thinking of the boys and how much fun they would be having too.



Saturday Morning we got into the park an hour early. The park was great, we managed to get a photo infront of the empty castle. Also, here is a photo of main street. I guess not to many people wanted to get up that early in the morning to enjoy the park :-).


Overall it was very relaxing and tiring, but we had a great time & I can't wait to go back in April with the boys.
here are a couple of more pictures that I really liked.

If I had to guess this quilt has been in production for almost a year and a half. This quilt started when my dear friend was going through a devasting time in her life. At that time she chose a project, makeover her bedroom. So her, her mom & myself headed for Joann's to find exactly what she wanted.

Her mom cut all the fabric up and had it ready for us to come over and work on it. Well life got in the way of that plan and in March of last year I took the bucket of cut up fabric home and began work.

This quilt was a huge challenge for me. It really tested my patience and taught me a lot about quilting. This quilt was also the "back burner" quilt, I only pulled it out when I had absolutly no other project to work on. But after many months it is complete. I will be sending it off to MO to have it professionally quilted and in two weeks when it's time to had the quilt over to my dear friend's mom to bind it, it will feel complete. I will try and grab snap shots of her room when it is complete, cause I am pretty sure this is the final piece to her beautiful bedroom.

BTW, the quilt is huge, David is holding it up the best he could.

I couldn't resist posting this for all to see.

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Another quilt for the books. I bought some of the fabric for this on ebay several months back and I have been drawing out the different ways I was going to complete it. I chose to pick the satin fabric for the pink ribbon in the middle. I offically started working on it on Thursday and finished it today. This is just the top, now I need to decide if I should machine quilt it (Stitch in the ditch of the pink ribbon), send in to a couple in MO who will long arm it for very cheap or... I just can't wait to get it finished off.

Go Seahawks!!!

If you don't already know David was given the gift of Seahawks tickets last year, and one of the benefits to these tickets are Playoff games... Well last night we got enjoy the Wild Card game against the Cowboys... It was cold... it was loud... it was stressful... and it was a BLAST! I LOVE football!! We enjoyed the game with another couple from our Sunday School class/bible study, Ben and Cassandra.

Quilts! Quilts! Quilts!

For those of you who don't already know... I love to quilt. I finished this quilt tonight for a coworker who had her first baby last week. It's the first time I did a nine patch by strip quilting. I had loads of fun with this (don't look to closely at my corners) :-). I even got to use my new sewing maching... I sewed little ducks in the corner.
It is so hard to give these quilts away, but I know she will get lots of use out of it. Now on to the next project....

Christmas!

Christmas is my favorite time of year. Here are some photos from our christmas celebration on Christmas morning. Other than this get together we had David's parents over Christmas eve, and my extended family got together on friday night- neither of which I have picture of, sorry :-).

Josiah got his own digital camera, which only means he will stop using mine :-).

Alex, in addition to the MP3 Player, got a cell phone & a baseball bat.

This was by far the funniest thing all morning, my mom wrapped Josiah's nutcracker in a box that was for a crystal vase. His face was a little shocked and uninterested when he saw that he was getting a vase. We had to explain to him that the picture on the box was not what was inside. He was excited to find a nutcracker inside- for some weird reason he loves nutcrackers. Josiah was also the proud recieptent of a cd player, and a remote control pirate ship.

And then, of course, my quest for the family photo. THis one is actually a tradition every year since we were married we have taken a photo in front of the tree- one year it was only the two boys but every year since then it has been all of us. Maybe someday soon I will get them all together in order and make a nice little frame for them all. What can I say, I love my family photos, the boys grow up so quickly that taking photos is so important to me... this one took about 10 shots to finally get a good one. I hope all of you had some nice family time over the last week and I pray your new year is a great one!

I got both boys in ties on sunday. I couldn't resist the kodak moment.

Josiah got his chance to sing in front of church yesterday and boy what an ordeal. When he first got up in the morning he was very excited, but as soon as we arrived at church he began his weekly meltdown (he doesn't really like Sunday School). So we did everything we could to bribe him to sing first service and with no luck it didn't happen. After getting him into his class we crossed our fingers and prayed that he would do it second hour.... I took this video with my digital camera so it isn't the best- plus it is a little shaky, but you at least get to see Josiah standing around doing nothing, he was so proud that he was up there with us watching and we were very proud of him. Josiah is wearing a green coat and is in the middle of the screen, half was through the first song he waves to me. The second song is 'Come on Ring those Bells' the first solo was sung by Mikayla, the daughter of some really good friends of ours. I love the little country twang she adds to the song!

Dear Friends & Family,

For those of you, who are enjoying the blog for the first time, welcome! Instead of the usually family letter I thought I would share our blog in our Christmas card instead. Feel free to post comments & check back often to see regular updates & photos of 2007; it is sure to be a fun year for us!

So here goes our 2006 recap…. It was another fabulous year in our house hold. Alex finished 5th grade and in our school district that was also the end of elementary school. He played baseball again and although his team only made 3rd place in the league and Alex was invited to play on an All Star team for a tournament. Alex turned 12 in November & sometime this year he grew so tall that he is eye to eye with his mom. Middle school has been an adventure so far, he is running from class to class and keeping up with all the homework that is assigned. He is starting to get into music and things that teenagers like to do. It is so hard to let go at this age!

The highlight of our year had to be the first camping trip we have done as a family (look at the July post for pictures & a detailed story). We spent 4 days at Warm Beach with a large group of families from our church. Both boys got a lot of bike riding in. It was a blast.

In September Josiah signed up for soccer and we enjoyed his first and only game. It was really a riot. If you have never seen 5 year olds play soccer it is a must do for all (look for pictures in the Sept-Nov posts). Josiah turned 5 this year & started preschool. He is learning basic math and his letters. Math seems to be his favorite subject. Josiah also received a blue ribbon for his cookies at the state fair (see previous post).

David & Cori are still both working for Disney in downtown Seattle. They both enjoyed another year on the churches softball teams. Cori is spending another year as director of the AWANA Cubbies program at church. In March of 2007 we will be celebrating our 7 year anniversary, it is so hard to believe it has been that long. We really feel blessed by everything we have been given. We pray for each of you daily & hope that you and your family have a wonderful holiday season!

Lots of Love,
David, Cori, Alex & Josiah

Leavenworth!

We made our annual trip to Leavenworth today. We had a great time and for the first time David joined us. We got a lot of christmas shopping done and the boys got a couple of hours of sledding in for the year. We also made a stop at the Hat Shop, so that should answer any questions about Alex's hat :-). My parents were with us and we took a charter bus with a group from my dad's work, Community Transit. It was a great time!

Josiah borrowed Alex's hat...

And Josiah decided he wanted to take a picture of Alex's hat all by himself...

Hope you enjoyed to photos. Hopefully lots more will come soon!

Thanksgiving.

We had a nice thanksgiving at home. I cooked my first turkey and learned a little in the process. My parents came over to celebrate with us and we all had a lot to eat & a lot left over.
:-)