Eric, Hillary, Q & A: christmas

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This year we went christmas light searching. We found this awesome Seahawks house! They also had UW, Sonics, Mariners and Sounders lights.

We had lunch at Maltby Cafe, and he thought this little tent was awesome! Too bad each animal was like $300 bucks.

I decorated a tree this year, but refused to put presents under it. I didn't want a certain 3 year old to start opening them. So i put all our presents in bags in our closet. This was taken a little prematurely. There were a lot more presents to add.

More present pictures. The back of the car was completly full with presents.

Sues Christmas tree with presents.

I drove to Redmond to get him Gluten Free Vegan Sugar Cookies. He loved decorating them! It took him a little awhile to eat them though.

Christmas Eve tradition of new Pajamas! It was a Seahawk theme christmas. Except for Batman.

He walked around all night saying "Hey! I'm Batman"

We left cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Looks like Santa took them!

Q has been asking for Buzzlight year. He was SO excited that Santa brought him. Grandma and Grandpa Dolder got him a Batman Bat Cave, and Grandma and Grandpa Corbett got him a richoett. He got clothes and other toys but those are his favorite!

You know how some people cut their hair when they have kids? Well I will never do that, but i did need something easier to maintain. So I dyed my hair dark brown. I have been thinking about it for awhile and since Chelsea went to Hair School I went for it. I love it! And it makes getting ready easy. No more worrying about my hair grow out, or worrying that people can tell my hair is greasy.

For Christmas I got Eric a year of dates. Date 1 was going to the Sound of Music. It was AMAZING!! I loved everything about it and had to keep from singing along.

This post is mostly a picture overload from Dec 1- Dec 20th. It has been a super crazy/busy/fun/stressful/great month. It started with check ups to the doctors. Both kids got shots. It was a really sad car ride home.

Q is so big! We had 2 nurses. One was getting all of Q's vitals and 1 was helping Audrey.
Matching gowns. Q thought it was great.

Audrey and Quentin went Christmas shopping with me and my mom. Audrey has some great taste at Kate Spade.

We went to the Lego Store and we left with the magazine. He sat in the stroller like this the rest of the time at the mall. This of course meant Audrey had to be carried.

My dad had to buy a tux, so at Nordstrom they had reusable stickers. Of course Q didn't want to put them back in the book, he thought the mirrors would be better.

We had our Christmas Tradition Pizza night at Pag. While we were there Bell Square was light up for the Seahawks.

Some of the christmas present damage.

More Christmas damage.

Making dad and Grandpas Christmas present

We also decorated Grandma Dolders Christmas Tree. He HAD to wear the elf hat. He is a silly kid.

He was also organizing the tree. All the same type ornaments had to be by each other.

At our ward christmas party, Q decided he was part of the Primary and wanted to go sing.

He didn't want to give up his spot on the stairs.

When Santa showed up Q ran away as soon as he walked in. But about 5 minutes later he was ready to go tell Santa what he wanted.

He is such a good big brother.

Audrey loves sitting up now and seeing what is going on around her. During dinner we put her in this chair and added some toys. She loved it.

Dr. Quentin listening to Audreys heart. We listen to our hearts and lungs a lot in this house.

She is a super happy girl.

She also makes the funniest faces. This is the look of shock and disgust. "I cant believe you like that"

The best Christmas party! Erics work rented out all of Lucky Strike in Bellevue and gave everyone tickets to play for 3 hours for free. We had SOOOOO much fun!!

We were football players and basketball players.

They also had these race cars that you took turns driving, but while you were driving your seat vibrated and moved to match the car. It was pretty fun.

We had the entire Bowling room to ourselves. The screen is showing a winter blizzard. Eric wont at bowling, but I at least went above 100, so I'm happy.

I went to a girls night sock exchange where you put in gifts in the socks and exchanged them without knowing what was in it. We also had amazing Fondue and great company. I love my friends!

We had the BYU Bowl Game and so natually we had to put on our tatoos.

Audrey had a clothing change because she spits up A TON. Both outfits were pretty cute.

My dad, brother and Eric flew down to Vegas for the game, and then flew home that night. I am so excited that they went!

WARNING: This will be picture overload since I have 5 months of activities to catch up on.

Basically since Christmas I feel like life has gone non stop! We spent Christmas in San Jose at my parents new house. It was awesome, we went on adventerous, exploring this new area that my parents now call home.

First thing we did, was take Q on a train. As you can see from the picture he was pretty excited.

Q loves his cousin Ellie.

We then went with Donald, Emma and Ellie to Half Moon Bay. Donald and Eric dreamed about when they could play the course.

Then we had to do a Christmas Train ride. Next year we are going to do the Polar Express. It will be awesome. Q still loves the train whistle Santa gave him. I tend to hide it.

My Dad got a Ricochet car for Christmas so we went to the church parking lot and played with it. Q both loved it and feared it. He liked when it would drive away and hit the curb, but if it was coming back at him he had to run away or be held. He loves his Grandpa!

We couldn't make a trip without going to Pebble Beach. It was SO beautiful! We had lunch there and again, the boys dreamed about playing the course.

Another day we all went to Monterey to walk to boardwalk and play in the ocean! It was pretty cold since it was December, but so beautiful!

After Christmas, Eric and I went on the company cruise I had been planning. There were over 500 people on this cruise that I was in charge of! I had been planning it since August, and was so excited that it was finally here! We went to the West Caribbean, which was tons of fun. The trip included activities every night, like Disco Parties, Formal Night, White Out Party. During the days we went on Zip Lining excursions, Cave Tubing, and just days and the coolest beaches. Writing about it now makes me want to go back!

Don't mind the picture. This was taken just after we watched the Seahawks play to go on to the Super Bowl. There were only 4 people in the entire bar rooting for the Seahawks. It was super intense. While we were celebrating the other 2 people accidentally spilt their beer on me, but since we were late for formal night, I only had time to change my clothes and run to dinner. Oh man, that game was amazing.

We also went to a Seahawks game in January! We are already making plans to go to another one.

Right before we went on the cruise we found out we were pregnant. Had no clue. I know I'm one of those didn't know I was pregnant annoying people. We decided not to find out what we are having. We figure since the pregnancy itself is a surprise we are going to keep everything about it a surprise.

For my Birthday Eric got me an overnight stay at Salish Lodge with a massage. It was amazing! Eric's parents watched the little monster for us.

For Erics Birthday, his dad dropped the cake on him, and I got him tickets to the US Open Golf tournament in June. He is going to have so much fun!

The rest of the time has just been going to Mariner Games with Neal and Wilson. They are the cutest buddies.

Playing with Trains

Trips to the Zoo

Trips to St. George to visit cousins and attend baby Showers. St. George was SO much fun! We played in the pool and went to the park. Also went to the Sand Dunes!