After braving a record-breaking snowstorm that included lane-less freeway free-for-alls, tears from me, and passing flipped cars & jack-knifed semi trucks, we made it home for Christmas. And boy was it grand. [: Here are three reasons why Christmas break 2013 was the best one so far.
1) It was in the beautiful, green, lush Pacific Northwest.
2) It was two weeks with my family + my husband. That means amazingness.
3) These things:
Seattle trip!
Seattle photobombs:
Of course the gingerbread houses at the Sheraton:
Seein' this lovely Christmas card picture every time I walked down the hall [:
Kitty time:
And cookie time (with Ryan doing what he did to most of the cookies he frosted [: )
Christmas day and BACKPACKING GEAR:
Broken toe:
Beecher's Mac & Cheese:
I MADE SOMETHING EDIBLE:
With lots of help from my Papa. [:
Leavenworth with Ryan's wonderful parents:
Ryan had bonding time with Panda. So precious:
Lots of wedding Thank-yous:
New Year's Eve complete with the classic activities of a taste-test
(cheddar cheese this time) and Saray Vou, our made-up French toilet paper passing game.
Reading the predictions everyone wrote for each other last New Years. We laughed at how several of mine had something to do with Ryan, since he had come through Seattle last Christmas break and spent some time with us (we had gone on two dates by that time and were in the "I really like you a lot but I don't know how you feel about me" phase [: ). Some of my favorite predictions:
"Hannah will love Ryan Gray even more!!" -Sarah (What?! I guess she knew how I felt about Ryan better than I did myself [; ).
"Hannah will have a 'special friend.' (Ryan? But if not... forget I said it [: )" -Lydia
"Hannah will enjoy having new roommates and living somewhere new in the fall." -Mom (Done and done, Mom. Done and done. [: Haha. We laughed hard at that one.)
The highlight of break: Snowshoeing at Rainier.
Snowshoeing: amazing. Rainier: incredible. But them together: perfection. That's another park checked off of our list! Rainier National Park, you have my heart.
^^^We call this one "Ryan and the six dwarves."
Ryan and I went back to our honeymoon location, aka the best bed & breakfast ever for a couple days:
I cleaned out my room so that Lydia could move in. Bittersweet! ):
Walks with my family on the trail that holds sooo many memories:
Best break yet. Our last one all together for awhile. I love my family.
Life is good.
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