Idasong: Washington 2011

On the ferry fall 2011, kids + friend

2011 was a crazy year for our family. We moved from Mesa Arizona to Auburn Washington in August, then to Maple Valley Washington in December.
I am going to try my hand at blogging to keep our family updated on pictures and major events.

After a tumultuous 5 months in a rental in Auburn, we exercised our tenant rights and moved out. We chose Maple Valley as our new town due to the great schools, and relatively short commute for Nathan to work.

We moved in the week after Christmas.

New rental. Perfect garage for Nathan's bike collection.

Back of house. Love that it looks like Amtyville in this picture.

Front room

Dining room

Living room

Kitchen


Stairs & entryway

Before moving, we celebrated Thanksgiving at Sam & Marens. Super yummy.
And we decorated gingerbread houses at our place while AJ was in town.
Awful, I did not get a picture of Ammon's gingerbread house. But it was awesome, and delicious.
It was guarded by lots of Cinnamon and gummy bears, and sharks.
Then we hosted Christmas dinner at our almost empty rental in Auburn.

Ethan's Gingerbread house


Catalina's gingerbread adobe.

Discovered Fat Burger. And that Catalina's temporary hair dye is more permanent than temporary.

Discovered Ammon can look like Beiber.

Christmas was larger than anticipated due to many gifts in the mail from grandparents and Aunts.

Christmas was in the old rental home. It was really weird to have just our little family unit for Christmas day, and no driving around town to visit family. We lost power for about 4 hours, just after we had opened all the gifts. It worked out well, because we just took a post-chaos nap. We then spent the rest of Christmas day with Sam and Maren.