Christmas 2009 Part I: pre-celebration

Here's the start of my Christmas posting - try to ignore the fact that it is January.

We did a lot of fun activities the week of my birthday. The men in Hale's life generously took care of him so that I could run off shopping to Seattle TWICE - it was awesome! Unfortunately, the week's grand finale was a family-wide bout of a quick-onset stomach flu, but I can give you those hilarious details later...

Here are some pictures taken in Bellevue during one of the fun shopping trips with Susan, Tarelle and Aunt Rosie.