Fun times in Leavenworth, WA

The day after Christmas we headed up to Leavenworth, WA for some Family fun. The above picture is Multnomah Falls. It was sure pretty. I snapped this shot as we were driving by on our way up north. The waterfall was so pretty in fact that my cousin's boyfriend proposed to her there on Christmas day. Congratulations Evie and Michael!!!!
More pretty Columbia Gorge shots
Walking to the town of Leavenworth from our Condo
The town is very small and quaint. It looks like a Bavarian village. We ate lots of sausage and pastries. Yummy!!!
This is the main drag through town
Matthew and Rachel eating lunch at a outdoor restaurant which served all kinds of sausages.
Anna and Jason
Mom and Dad Gault
Rachel eating a yummy Kelbasa
The city lights up at night. Every where you looked there was beautiful Christmas lights.

Me being viciously attacked by a bear. Ok, he was really harmless.


Crazy Sarah :-)
We traveled to Steven's Pass to go skiing.
The little pick snowball is me skiing down the mountain
Mom Gault and I coming down the mountain. Since I have only been skiing three times before, I decided a good goal for the day would be to go down a blue run before the day was over. I ended up going down a blue run 9 times that day. I was pretty proud of myself. I tried to do a little bit harder run, but I ended up on my butt a few times. I guess I will have to practice some more.

This is Matthew skiing down the Mountain. He is a great skier. He did some double black diamond runs while we were there. I was impressed but even more, thankful that he came back alive!!!
Yes, I know my nose is bright red. I kinda look like Rudolph the red nose reindeer.
The town of Leavenworth has a lot of pretty pictures. I took a few pictures so you could see what they looked like



This was a nice little cafe' and bakery in town.
My brother-in-law Jason getting some coffee before we started traveling home
And this is what Matthew did for most of the 7 hour car ride home. I couldn't help it. I thought he was in drool/dream land :-)

Christmas with our Family!!!

Christmas Eve was spent with my family this year. We packed all our stuff my parents house and then all piled into one car to travel to my Aunt Gail's apartment in downtown Portland. We had a great time visiting and opening up some presents. We wish we could have staid longer but the traffic was not pretty. We did spend some quality time chatting and laughing in the car on the way there and back.
After visiting my Aunt we drove back to my parents house in Butteville and ate a wonderful dinner of home made mac and cheese, yummy salad, rolls, peas, and olives. Then we opened presents and finished the evening with our very own Christmas Eve Service since ours was canceled.
We then got stuck in the snow right in front of my parents house. We pushed the car back into the driveway and put the chains back on so we could make it out to the freeway. What an adventure. Since the freeway was pretty clear, but the back roads were not, Jason and Mom Gault came and picked us up in the Costco parking lot. We unloaded all our stuff into Jason's Blazer and headed to the Gault's house.




Matthew got a nice new BBQ for Christmas. When the weather gets nice we will have a BBQ party!!!
We played lots of games. Jenga, Settler's, Fill or Bust. We had lots of fun.

The long car ride to go snow shoeing

This is what I looked at for most of last Tuesday. After a couple days of being house bound, I decided to go snow shoeing with my wonderful brother -in -law and two sister- in- laws. Anna came and picked me up at my house at 11 am. We went and picked up one of Sarah's friends out near Damascus and then finally made it to Sarah's house around 2:15. This is the view from our car window. We left Sarah's house to come home at 5:15 and made it home at 8pm. It really was a fun day, but man the traffic was horrible. Luckily we knew all the back ways home or we would have spend the night in the car on I-205 that night :-).Rachel, Sarah, Jason and Anna
Anna and Jason testing out the snow shoes.
Climbing Mt. Tabor

Fun times in the Snow

Yesterday Matthew and I traveled to Boring, OR to visit my Aunt Bonnie, Uncle Jim and my wonderful cousins. We played in the snow, drank hot apple cider, sang Christmas songs, had a wonderful dinner, and of course we can't get together without goofing around!!! We almost got stuck there and made it home just before the freezing rain hit. We had so much fun!!! Thank you Scmitt's for a wonderful day.

Rachel and Sata sliding down the BIG hill. Picture above is of me and Matthew enjoying the snow!
Making snow angels
Matthew and his sled
Me and my little Sata getting ready to go sledding
Big brother David with Sata and Ansu
So this happens to be the very first chicken I have ever held. Her name is Rosie and she is a very sweet chicken. I should mention that my Aunt and Uncle live on a lot of land and they have lots of chickens, ducks, a rabbit, two angora goats, three cats and a snake. Quite the farm :-)
Rachel and Evie enjoying each others company
Matthew and Ansu goofing around.
Rachel and Sata enjoying the nice, warm house
Standing in front of our car after the snow was pushed off
My two cousins (Nathan and David) helping push our car out of the snow drift
Our house this morning