Merry Christmas!

Thanks to my parents, we were able to spend Christmas and New years up in Washington. When we first got there, Chloe, Brett, my mom and myself all came down with a stomach bug that put us out of commission for almost a week. So unfortunately we did not get to do as much as we had hoped.

Chloe helping Grandpa Mark decorate the tree











Chloe helping Grandma Lynn in the kitchen














Chloe helping me wrap presents...well more like wrapping herself with the stolen wrapping paper










Once we were feeling better, we celebrated Christmas with my parents. We woke up and opened up our stockings that Santa had left us (Chloe for some reason didn't want to look at her gifts), ate a wonderful breakfast and proceeded to open our Christmas presents. We got such wonderful things.










Chloe enjoyed the piece of candy that Grandpa gave her so much, she had to have more...and helped herself to it. She even ate some of the foil wrapper!










It snowed on Christmas, well it snowed almost every day we were in Washington. Chloe wasn't to fond of being out in the snow. I don't know if she was still feeling sick or if it was the fact that she had to wear lots of clothes, (lately she is into being naked) either way, we didn't go out in the snow as much as I had liked, but we did manage to get some pictures.











Once she figured out that she could eat the snow, she enjoyed it for all of 15 minutes.











A few days after Christmas, Brett's parents arrived from Oregon (they moved there in August). We had our Schweizer family Christmas over at David and Eric's house. It was nice getting together with the whole family.

Stephanie and Ryan and our nephew Nolan

Eric and his girlfriend Brittany David and Chloe

The "original Schweizer family" and Chloe

My cousin Amanda and her husband Nathan were finally able to come visit us and brought along Joshy and the baby to be to play. Well I guess baby to be didn't do a whole lot of playing outside of Amanda's belly.

Joshy and Chloe got along pretty well this visit. Poor Joshy had broken his arm a few weeks back so he was wearing a splint, but that didn't slow him down one bit. The two of them were so fun to watch. When it came time to eat, Joshy had to wear a Ziploc bag over his splint so it wouldn't get wet or dirty. Chloe was fond of this idea. Now every time she sees a Ziploc bag she has to wear it on her hand. Oh she cracks me up.

We were able to see some of our friends as well on our trip. We braved the snow and traffic that we are no longer used to (we don't do a lot of freeway driving here in Cali and when we do, it isn't bad. They have many freeways down here, not just one) and got out of the house leaving Chloe with our parents most of the time. It was nice to be able to do that.

All in all it was a great time. We wish that we could have done more, but that is life. Merry Christmas everyone!