Holiday happenings

Hello friends, Well the holidays have come and gone.I don't know about you ,but I always get a little sad when Christmas is over. We had a lot of fun this holiday season. I would have liked to see Ariel get out a bit more than she was able to, but we still had a wonderful time.Here is a recap of some of the events we did.

One of the first things I did this holiday season was to go to the Food & Gift Fair at The Tacoma Dome with my cousin Deanne.I learned several things going to this. #1 Wear comfortable shoes especially for this one because it's huge #2 Sample and look around before you buy #3 Don't buy anything until the end.I made that mistake and ended up lugging something heavy around with me all day, so lesson learned .We had so much fun looking at all the pretty trees and cute ornaments and other craft items and trying all the yummy food samples. Soup, fudge, cocoa, dips, chocolate, cookies, we practically had lunch before we left.

Another thing my cousin and I did was to go to the cute little town of Poulsbo, well the historic part just chock full of Viking folklore and all kinds of Norwegian items. You can even get Lutefisk Tacos, Ummm, no thanks! 

This little guy was just so cute we had to stop and pet him.

 

Skating with The T-Birds was the next thing on our list.I'm sure you all know several of our family members are hockey junkies.We just love it and have gotten pretty involved with The Seattle Thunderbirds.Skating with them in December is always a fun.

    We brought our friend Robert and the guys had a blast.Even though the ice was so crazy busy that it
    was a bit like skating on the freeway,lol! 😅 They even had their picture shared on The Seattle Thunderbirds official page.

                We also went to a team party.

 

Next on the agenda was our annual zoo party.

 

 

 

 Of course any Marrero holiday has it's share of drama there has never been a holiday without some, so we had our share of seizures, injuries and even a surgery for Gilbert, but we didn't let it ruin our fun.😊

 

Ariel at her Neurologists office

 

Ariel at urgent care after her seizure injury.

 Next it was off to Port Gamble for the annual tree lighting and fireworks show.

 Always great to have hot chocolate when you're at this event, because it's freezing.

 

I made this video many years ago it shows Ariel when she was not having so many health issues.

We always have so much fun at that event and then go to Central Market for chili dogs and pizza afterwards.

Cookie decorating is part of our annual tradition.The guys get pretty creative and sometimes gruesome with their decor, why?, because their guys and they think it's fun, lol! 😉

                  Breakfast out with my guys.

Shopping with my girl. Ariel only needs the wheelchair when her seizures are really bad like in November they were awful.

                    Having some fun at Ocean 5.

                  Going to the hockey game.

               Hanging out at the movies.

We also went out to eat quite a few times and shopping. Nicholas was happy to be eating something besides fast food or base food. We didn't do everything I would have liked , but we did quite a few things and had a lot of fun. Nick had a great vacation off.
What are some of the things you did for the holidays?
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Zoolights.

Our church had the idea for everyone that wanted to,to go to Zoolights on Monday.Originally my hubby was going to come,but he was sick and ended up going to the doctors instead,so I asked my dear friend Anne to come.She has 10 kids and so it was a nice little break for her,plus her birthday was the day before and so that was even more of a bonus.My cousin was also going to come ,but unfortunately she hit a patch of black ice and was in an accident.I felt so bad,but am praising God she wasn't hurt.

We decided to stop first and get pizza at Little Ceasers and then bring a thermos of hot chocolate.

It was beautiful and unfortunately I didn't realize until after we had gone that I didn't get one picture of the kids,but oh well we were having a lot of fun,but it was very cold about 27 degrees.

It was a really fun day I even captured some video here:
http://youtu.be/dPlRVAlRSiU

Daniel was a bit hyper this day and of course the next day he had a bad seizure,so we kind of new that was coming,but we can't just live in the house all the time knowing a seizure is going to hit.Like my blog says we try to make the most out of life.Our next event will be Spanaway lights.you drive through those.