Merry Christmas!

Our second Christmas in the Pacific Northwest with the Chisholm/Fujimoto gangs was wonderful. It would be impossible to report on all of the festivities in the past 11 days, but here are some highlights:

• Dad Watson's: We met up with some Puddle Jumpers (LT's soccer team) and McDonald for beers & Capt. Neon burgers.
• Never Ending Story: Staring EMILY CHISHOLM, so friggin' wonderful to see Em in action again. If you are in the Seattle area, you must see this play at the Seattle Children's Theater. Bravo EM!
• Epic Drive to Redmond: Laura gets the MVP for this drive since she had the stomach flu and was sick the entire 10 hours. Honorable mention goes to Dave and Amy for being awesome with Hayden and for driving.
• Christmas eve snow: Sledding, snowball throwing competition and our rendition of a luck dragon in the snow. It was so great to play with Hayden this entire trip -- he is an absolute joy and is too cute to describe.
• Christmas: Advent wreath, countless candles, yummy meals, Night Before Christmas book reading, hours after hour of football, mountains of toys for Hayden and the other grandkids. And we cannot forget the fireworks. Thanks to Henry, this is a consistent edition to our Oregon visits -- he believes it is necessary to celebrate all holidays with fireworks, even Flag Day!
• Excellent fun-filled family visits: Chisholms, Andersons, Chambers, and Huckes
• Drive back to Seattle: Calm and relaxed, and for you East Coasters, we used chains on our tires to get through the snow on the mountains between Central Oregon and Seattle!
• Joshua and Laura Day: Of course, we spent a day going sailing on Lake Union with a boat borrowed from the ever-growing Center for Wooden Boats and rock climbing at Stone Gardens, where we first met.

This trip was great because we spent a lot of time lazing around and laughing. And, really, isn't that the point?

Thanks to all of you who helped make this trip wonderful for Laura and me. If our paths did not cross this holiday we still want to wish you a very happy and blessed season.