Sunny, Idamae, Mom, Dad and I cleaned my condo for our new renter. I had already moved most of my stuff out, but we still needed two truck loads and three van loads to completely move. Luckily I have a loving family who don’t mind working hard for free. After two days of work, we are now landlords…

On a whim, Sunny and I took a road trip to Tacoma. I was not ready for this city. Firstly, Tacoma’s downtown was completely deserted Sunday morning. Tacoma was actually a very beautiful city. The houses above the bay were very old and were gorgeous. Our trip was made special after paying the toll to cross the new Tacoma bridge. We couldn’t find a single open restaurant, so we drove to the Tacoma Mall and ate at Red Robin.

The ducks were so cute! We had to go back to feed them…

Adam and Collin joined us for dinner. We had spaghetti and a great red wine.

Mike, Jill, Sunny and I met at our condo to build gingerbread houses! We will have to make a tradition out of this, we had a really fun time. Mike and Jill’s gingerbread house was beautiful, ours barely held together! But it was so much fun!

Sunny and I spent Christmas morning at Laurie and Scott’s house and Christmas evening at my parent’s house. We had a white Christmas! I can’t remember the last white Christmas we had, this was special, our first Christmas together as a married couple is something we will always remember.

Christmas Eve was at Laurie and Scott’s house this year.

Sunny and I had my family over for a Christmas dinner at our condo. Sunny worked really hard, our condo was gorgeous, and dinner was outstanding.

Inches of snow have been dumped over the Pacific Northwest the last few days. Driving to work this morning was part slalom and part roller coaster ride! Later Andre, Bruce, and I took turns shoveling snow.

Sunny and I celebrated Christmas at Ian and Dria’s house. We had a great time, our nephews loved their gifts!