Friends Christmas!!

Jeff and Kelly hosted Friends Christmas this year in their newly remodeled home!! Great work Jeff! Kel is due with Baby Girl (Flocka) Gies on December 30th!! We can’t wait for her to arrive!! This year everyone brought their favorite medium pizza to share, which limited clean up for the hosts and made it easy for everyone to bring something! We did our annual Christmas Exchange Game which Joe and Lynne introduced to us last year and there were some great gifts given. Travis ended up with a T-Shirt of Joe’s face on it and I ended up with movie the Dark Night (Batman). There were a few other crowd favorites including the Hanna Montana Alarm clock, WSU Beer Mug & Dish, and of course the Rocky Shot glasses! Good work Friends another successful Friends Christmas, which I hope turns into a regular tradition for as long as we can stand each other!

Happy Birthday Grandpa Kal!

Kal’s birthday was December 9^th. Kal said he wanted to spend the day with Payton for his birthday, so since it was in the middle of the week, Travis, Payton, Leah, and I went down to Gig Harbor the Sunday before to spend the day with Grandpa Kal! It was such a fun, relaxing day! Happy Birthday Kal! :)

Lynne's Birthday

Lynne's Birthday was on December 4th (late blogger, I know). We had a girls dinner for her at Kristi's the night before her birthday and then Trav and I joined Lynne and Joe for a night out on Friday after her birthday. We went to the Crab Pot for dinner and then to Jazz Alley to see 'Guitars and Saxes Christmas with Richard Elliot, Paul Brown and Jessie J; "funk-oriented greats converge for X-mas Bash." We had a really great time! It was fun to celebrate Lynne's bday and have a night out! :) Happy Birthday Lynne!

Two Month Appointment

On Wednesday, Payton had his two month appointment. He got his first round of shots which was heartbreaking to watch but he took them like a champ! Our little Payton boy now weighs 14lbs 2oz and is 23.5 inches long. The doctor says that he is healthy and looks great!

2 months...1 month...A couple of days old...

Christmas Tree

The Sunday after Thanksgiving we drove out to Riverview Farm (Marge's uncle's tree farm) to cut down the Kalamakis Family Christmas Tree. This was our fourth year going to the same tree farm and we were successful once again in finding the perfect tree. Jeanie, Kal, Leah, Andrew, Carlie, Bodi, Payton and I all watched as Trav cut down our tree; such a lumberjack! After we found the best trees for three different households, we headed into Carnation, where Payton was introduced to his first bar. It is the same bar that we have had lunch at the past four years so we had to go back with the baby (yes we had a baby...in a bar)! It was a lot of fun! The annual tree hunt is a great tradition that I know Payton is going to love!

Kelly's (Shower) Dinner

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we had a baby shower for Kelly (mother goose)! She is due January 5th with a little baby girl Gies! We had a girls dinner at Maggianos in Bellevue and Kel got lots of great stuff! Here are a few picts from the evening! Four more weeks! So excited for the Gies Family!!

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving!

This year we headed to Jeanie and Kal's new home on the water in Gig Harbor for Thanksgiving. Their home is so beautiful, which Kal built! We deocrated gingerbread houses and then ate a delicous Thanksgivng feast. They hosted 24 people and it was so great catching up with Trav's family that we haven't seen since this past summer. This was Payton's first Thanksgiving and boy was he cute! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! gobble, gobble! :)