Snow Shoveling is Hard Work!

The boys were out again to shovel the driveway!

Tyler in his year-round attire of shorts works on the sidewalk.

Justin works at the snow and ice on the driveway as Max supervises.

Tyler, Justin and James work on the neighbor lady's driveway again. While they were still shoveling it started snowing AGAIN!

It just keeps SNOWING!!!

Last night Tyler went out to see how thick the snow was and after he came back in I went to look- and what did I see? Footprints not shoe or boot prints...FOOTprints!!! Crazy kid!


Later he asked me to take a picture of him eating Lucky Charms in the snow. I said yes and followed him out to take the picture. He sat down in the snow in shorts and started eating his bowl of cereal! WOW!

P-D's Famous Coconut Balls

Every year I make Coconut Balls at Christmas time. They are very labor intensive so they only get made once a year. This year Justin wanted to do the dipping of them into the chocolate. He did a wonderful job!


For those of you who may be eating coconut balls this year...he did NOT lick his finger until he was done making them!

All tired out from a long day Justin and Max (who is not allowed in the living room and follows the rules as you can see) take a little nap in the glow of the tree!

The Force was with Us!

Last Saturday we were able to get through the snow to Tyler's favorite comic shop- Atomic Comics- they were having a toy drive as well as a sale. We picked out a nice Barbie and some Hot Wheel cars to bring and were treated to a "welcome" by 2 Stormtroopers, Obi Wan Kenobi and (sorry Mark and Tyler)- whoever this guy is! I'm not up on all the Star Wars characters as I should be, but thanks to Tyler I'm sure I know more than most moms!!!

That's my boy...

After Justin was done sledding and playing in the snow he cleared our driveway and our single neighbor lady's driveway. What a good kid!!!

Snow Days...

No school for the boys today. Snow draws the kids to the big hill at the end of our street..."dead man's hill". Justin tries out his "snowboard style" sledding toy.


Heading up the hill for another run down.

And again...

Justin and Tommy ride tandem. Tommy sitting with Justin standing behind.

The results? a wipe out!

Tough Loss for the Warriors! 3-1.

Justin's team the Warriors had their 1st loss last night. It was a tough game. They led in the scoring at the beginning and then the opposing team took the lead. The Warriors came back nicely but it just wasn't enough. Good game though!

Warrior Basketball

Justin's school basketball team "Warriors" are undefeated with a 3-0 record. The last 2 games have been close and hard-fought wins but they were successful each time. Justin has played well each game as well. Here is his HOME game schedule (home is at Concordia- on 56th St between Pacific and McKinley):

Monday Dec. 15- 4:45pm
Thursday Dec. 18- 3:30pm
Friday Jan. 9- 4:45pm
Tuesday Jan 20- 4:45 NOT HOME but close @ Parkland Lutheran
Friday Jan. 23- 4:45pm
Thursday Jan. 29- TBA- Tournament
Friday Jan. 30- TBA- Tournament NOT HOME but at Mount Rainier Luth. High
Monday Feb. 2- 4:45pm
Thursday Feb. 5- 4:45pm NOT HOME at MRLH

We would love to see you at some games! Join the "P-D" cheering section. Our record # of cheerers is 16 in the P-D group. Help us break our record.

Merry Christmas

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Old Friends

Yesterday I went to the funeral of my good friend Dina's dad. So though the circumstances were not good, I was able to reconnect with two of my dearest friends . Dina (in the middle) and Erika (on the right). Though we have been apart for years when we get together it is like no time at all has passed.

Warrior Basketball!!!

Final score of the 1st official basketball game. We were the "guests". The jump ball went to Justin and he took it to the basket to score the 1st points of the game!


Justin at the free throw line for 2.

Time out strategy...

#30- my boy!

Throwing the ball in.

Defense!