the rest of our Christmas weekend!

It is hard to believe that Christmas is already over! We had an incredible weekend packed full of activities!

We picked up Ben's parents late Friday night, along with my friend Courtney who was returning from an adoption placement in California.

On Saturday, we started out the day with showing Ben's parents our honeymoon pictures. It was fun to relive that trip once again. It made us miss Italy even more after looking at the pics of us wearing t-shirts and shorts! We lounged around quite a bit, which was very welcomed. We went and saw Marley & Me on Saturday afternoon. I wasn't quite prepared to cry so much! I hadn't read the book before, so I didn't know what to anticipate throughout the movie. What tearjerker! This was probably the 2nd or 3rd movie that I've been to where people clapped at the end. Definitely an unexpected great movie! Saturday night we made cornbread salad, yum.

Yesterday Ben & I went to church and then we met up with his parents and went down to Red Mill burger for lunch.. yum.. that place continues to amaze me. After lunch, we went down to the Pacific Science Center and went to the Imax theater, where I almost lost the burger from watching the movie about rafting up the blue Nile River. We went to the exhibit there and then went to REI to try to scoop up some sales. Yesterday night we watched Ironman, which I have to admit, I wasn't super excited about in the beginning. I was pleasantly surprised and actually really enjoyed it!

Now it's back to work.. blah.. It's so hard to come back after a holiday. Fortunately, this week is very short because I have taking a 1/2 day on Wednesday, and then Thursday & Friday totally off.

Here is our annual stack up pic that Jessie & Mark created through photoshop.. we are soon going to need a ladder when anymore nieces/nephews come along!