Snow in the Mountains

Here are some pictures we took going to and from Leavenworth and while we were in Leavenworth. Enjoy! (p.s. the last picture has the moon above one of the mountains. I took that early in the morning.)

Leavenworth Washington

Brad, Benny and I went to Leavenworth, WA. It is a Bavarian style town east of the Cascade Mountains. We went there specifically for their Christmas Light Festival. It was quite a sight to see. The weather was quite cold. I don't think it got out of the teens and dropped below zero at night. Benny seemed to like it. He got to try out his snow suit. We got there just in time to see the Light Festival on Sunday and then spent Monday walking the shops. Tuesday we had to head back home.

Here is Benny looking out our hotel room window. He liked to look at all of the lights.

There was quite a crowd for the Lighting Festival. It was neat. They lit up the trees one by one as we sang "Silent Night". Then we all counted down from ten and the rest of downtown lit up.

Some of the entertainment before the lights came on included these alpine horn players.


Benny didn't know what to think about Santa, but he did like the candy cane Santa gave him.

Benny was also lucky to see Rudolph as well.

Major Update!

As my mom told me last night, I have not updated this in awhile. I have a good excuse. Too much has been going on. Since the last update, we have visited family over Thanksgiving, seen the Zoolights at the Point Defiance Zoo, dealt with a lot (and I mean a lot) of snow and cold weather, spent a few days in Leavenworth, WA and went and had pictures taken with Santa. Oh yeah, and somehow fit Christmas shopping in there.

One thing I do want to mention is Benny's new thing. He likes to tickle people. He will come up to us and put his hand on us and say "tickle tickle". It is so cute. I have a video of it and I will upload it tomorrow.

We are expecting anywhere from 6 to 8 inches of snow tonight (Sat) into tomorrow (Sun) so I will not be going anywhere. My goal for tomorrow is to upload a ton of stuff I want to share from all the fun listed above.