Leavenworth Christmas

This weekend we decided to go check out the Christmas lights in a little town called Leavenworth. Cody had been there before for Octoberfest, but I had never been. It is about a two and a half hour drive from Seattle. On the drive, we passed Steven's Pass, which is a ski resort, and I could not believe how much I missed the snow! I'm excited to visit Utah for Christmas so we can soak up some of the snow. :) Anyway, Leavenworth is a very tiny German town with a few blocks of shops and restaurants. It was so beautiful with all the lights!

It was a lot colder in Leavenworth than in Seattle, but I didn't have any big, warm coats that fit over my belly, so I had to wear one of Cody's coats, so I look like a big, black, and purple marshmallow. :)

It was a short trip, but it was so much fun. I loved the lights and the cute little town. It was a great mini trip to have taken before the baby is here. :)

It's beginning to look...

a lot like Christmas!! I can not believe that it is Christmas time already, this year has gone by so fast! One of my favorite things about Christmas is putting up all the decorations, but Cody has always had a rule at our house that no Christmas is allowed until the day after Thanksgiving. So that Friday we pulled out all the Christmas stuff and started decorating. After everything was up, I realized that I have never posted pictures of our house after it was all fancy and not all cluttered from moving in. So I figured I would post pictures of our house all fancy with Christmas. :)

Our entryway.

Our front room.

Our Christmas tree.

And, this is our Seattle Christmas ornament we got to remember our time in Seattle.

Our kitchen.

Cody's office.

This house was advertised as three bedrooms, which it is, but to access the third bedroom, you need to walk through the second bedroom. So we turned it into our "closet room" and our "bed room." This is our closet room.

And this is our bed room.

Our TV in our closet in our bed room. :)

Vega's bed.

And that is our little tour of our house in Seattle. There is also a basement, but I call it a "scary" basement, so I'm not going to post pictures of the scary basement. :) Thankfully, it is very big so we have tons of room for storage. We also have another room, which will be the baby's room, however I will post pictures when that is all set up and ready.

Finally, here is a belly picture of me at 30 weeks. :)

Our Thanksgiving

Since we didn't go to Utah for Thanksgiving, we celebrated it differently than we normally do. A few of us transplants who weren't going home for the holiday decided to get together and have our own Thanksgiving. It turned out great! We went over to our friends home in Sammamish, which is about 15 minutes east-ish of Seattle. We ate great food and had great company. As hard as it was being away from family for Thanksgiving, I'm glad we have found some good friends that we were able to share the day with.

Our friends Pedro and Jessica, who recently got engaged!

Jessica and Jill

Mmmm...look at all that yummy food!

Aaron serving the first piece of turkey.

Us after after dinner and dessert. I think I have a food baby in there with my real baby! :)

It was a little different than we are use to, but it was still so much fun!