Archive for November, 2009

Thanksgiving Weekend 2009

November 29, 2009 · Filed under Bears Allowed Cabin Adventures - Plaine, WA · Tagged , , , , ,

Thursday, November 26th – Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Thursday – Happy Thanksgiving!  I am thankful for Steve’s new consulting job!  He starts on Monday and it is going to be great!  I am also thankful for our family, our beautiful, amazing kids, and my job.  I am also thankful to have a few days off and a long weekend to spend at the cabin.  We had a relaxing morning and we put Gavin’s spy game together.  I cleaned the house and did some laundry.  Steve cleaned his car and we took down the Halloween decorations.  We headed over to Steve’s parents house for the gathering at 2pm.  It was a small group this year because Karen went to Jeff’s family’s house.  Nick and Dylan were with their dad so it was just Kathy, Joe, Stefi, Hailey, Don, Carol, and the 4 of us.  We had a really nice time.  We gave Don his “flattened fauna” book and he loved it!  Hayden did his performance of “The Turkey song” and he belted it out perfectly!  We had a great dinner and were totally stuffed! 

Friday – We left around 8:30AM and headed over to the cabin.  The forecast is for no snow so the drive was easy as the pavement was bare and wet.  We arrived around 10:30 and had a late breakfast at The Squirrel Tree.  We got the cabin warmed up and played wii and read for most of the day!  The boys played outside and had the most fun ever playing their own game of “Gavin the legend of the fire lord” – a game they made up outside playing in the trees.  Steve rented the movie ”Twilight” and rented two wii games “Madden NFL” and “Ben 10″.   Steve made our signature spaghetti dish that we love “Spaghetti Ala Amatriciana” with bacon and San Marzano tomatoes.  The boys fell asleep around 9pm and Steve and I watched Twilight.  It was really entertaining since my expectations were so low and I loved the books.

Saturday – The boys played wii and we geared up to go on a hike by Lake Wenatchee.  We hiked in all the way to the lake which was frozen.  It was a fun hike and the boys ran and did great not complaining.  We threw some rocks on to the ice and watched them break through.  It looked really cool!  It was probably the last time we could do the hike as the snow was already there.  Gavin kept falling down in the snow and I told him he was going to wet and cold.  At the end he was sure enough “wet and cold”!

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Happy 11th Anniversary!

November 22, 2009 · Filed under Bears Allowed Cabin Adventures - Plaine, WA · Tagged , , , ,

Friday, November 20 – Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Friday – It is our anniversary this weekend…11 years!  My mom came over to watch the boys for the weekend.  Steve and I headed out around 6pm and stopped at The Alpen Drive Inn for dinner on the road.  We got to the cabin and it was cold and so quiet without the boys there!   Steve got the fire going and we relaxed and enjoyed the peace and quiet! 

Saturday – We slept in and had a relaxing morning.  I worked on my blog, relaxed and drank my coffee.  I love mornings like that!  We left around 1pm and headed in to Leavenworth.  We stopped at Safeway (I needed to get a card for Steve!) and then decided to have a light lunch since we had dinner reservations at 6:30pm.  We went to Ducks and Drakes which was a cool little pub.  We had a huge plate of nachos, beer, and coffee and baileys.  It was so nice to talk, drink, and enjoy each other’s company!  We stayed there for a few hours and then did a little shopping.  We found a hilarious book that we purchased for Steve’s dad called “Roadway flattened fauna” or something like that.  It was all about road kill, their dimensions when they are squished, and other weird info on road kill.  It was perfect for his Dad who joked that we would be having possum turkey this year for Thanksgiving!  We then went to a wine tasting at “Leavenworth Tasting Room” where we tried wine from Pasek Cellars and Willow Crest.  They had a few white wines that I liked and we bought one.  The red wines didn’t taste good to me at all which was weird.  The last thing we tried was a cranberry wine which tasted really good and unique.  We decided to buy a few bottles for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  After the winery we sought out another pub..the ones the locals like which was Uncle Uli’s Pub.  They had a cheese fondue that I want to go back and try.  We kept it to the drinks so we wouldn’t be full for our dinner.  We had dinner at Katz and it was really nice.  They had a big fireplace inside with wood beams and wooden tables.  We both had the prime rib which was very good.  We had a great night and a great anniversary!

Sunday – We had another relaxing morning, put up the Christmas lights, and headed out early.  The people from the house that we had contacted in our neighborhood called us and wanted to show us the inside at 4pm.  We loved the inside.  It was very charming and would be a great house for us.  They aren’t sure if they want to sell.  They bought a total project house in Fall City and they want to see what kind of progress they can make on that before they sell their house.  So we left it as we are interested but we will wait and see how things play out.

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Soccer season is over. Cabin…here we come!

November 15, 2009 · Filed under Bears Allowed Cabin Adventures - Plaine, WA · Tagged , , , , ,

Friday, November 13th – Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Friday – After a great two months of Gavin’s soccer season, the Jedi’s had their last soccer game on October 31st…Halloween.  The team did great this year.   Gavin had  a great time playing with his Bear Creek friends on the team, and we loved watching him.  Most of the games were on beautiful sunny days.  The only drawback to soccer season is that we missed the cabin during the most gorgeous time of year due to the Saturday games.  This is our first weekend back in about two months.  Last weekend we couldn’t come because Gavin had the “family” birthday party last Saturday and on Sunday the boys both had a birthday party to go to.  Gavin went to Adam’s party at the Jump place and Hayden went to Michael’s party at Chuck E Cheese.  So we are all very thankful to be back at the cabin!  Since I started working at Microsoft Oct. 1st, we had to wait to leave until I got home from work.  We finished packing and left around 7pm.  We packed bagels to eat for dinner in the car.  It was snowing on the drive over and Steve didn’t like driving my Acura.  It was squirrely and may need new tires.  The road wasn’t paved so it was a challenging drive.  Steve just switched out the headlights in his car and they aren’t bright enough.  He ordered replacements headlights  but hasn’t received them yet so that is why we drove my car.  We arrived around 9:00 or 9:30 and the cabin looked and smelled great after having renters in it 4 weekends in a row.  It was very cold!  Steve started a fire and after the boys had their new cereal of Fruity Pebbles, we headed upstairs to sit in front of the electric heater.  The boys fell asleep and Steve gave up on the downstairs because it was too cold! 

Saturday – We woke up to the cabin being toasty warm, and outside looking beautiful with a light covering of snow and blue sky!  Steve made yummy pancakes and bacon and the boys played in the snow after breakfast.  We played Gavin’s new card game Blink and enjoyed the morning.  We headed in to Leavenworth and the drive was so pretty with the snow on the trees.  In Leavenworth they were working on putting up the lights for Christmas.  We ate lunch at a new place called Pavz and it was sooo good!  They have tons of crepes to choose from and the atmosphere was really nice and warm.  Steve had a spicy sausage crepe and I had a black forest ham crepe.  For dessert we shared a crepe with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce…so good!  After lunch we went to the nutcracker store and got a new nutcracker for our collection…a really cool Cowboy nutcracker!  We then went to the cheesemonger’s shop and picked up some cheese and salami, got groceries at Safeway, and headed back to make dinner for Julie, Rick, Rylan and Zaden.  They came over and we had our cheese and crackers, nice wine, and Steve made a Turkish chicken dinner with yogurt and orzo.  It was very good and we had Haagen Daz bars for dessert!  As always, we all had a great time!

Sunday – We played some more “Blink” and Steve started working on putting the Christmas lights up.  Rick came over and picked up Gavin for a little play date with Rylan to play chess and legos and their cabin.  As Steve was putting up the lights he noticed that half the strings were out.  He and Hayden went to Plain Hardware to buy more Christmas lights.  They didn’t end up finding any good ones so we will work on the lights next weekend.  Hayden played some games and then we watched “Up”.    We left around 3:30pm to avoid driving back in the dark.

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