The day after our beach excursion we headed a couple hours north to visit Doug's sister and family in Gig Harbor, Doug's dad and Diane were also in town visiting. We went to zoo lights at Point Defiance zoo, had a wonderful early Christmas brunch followed by gifts, played a lot, shared a little and attempted a few photo shoots with the kids. It was a very fun trip minus Caleb coming down with some sort of 12 hour flu bug the first night and then passing it along to most everyone else. After looking at this selection of photos I have decided I should rename this post photographic illusions...photos are amazing in that they can capture a precise moment in time and make it appear that everything/everyone is great, when in actuality that couldn't be farther from the truth. Thanks again to Jen for a few of these great photos!!!
Johnny and Caleb playing with cars and the fun garage...a brief instant of sharing
At the zoo waiting to go in
Caleb and Anna are 2 little hermit crabs at the zoo...seconds before Caleb gets sick
Our early "Christmas morning" Johnny and Rachel in the special jammies
Jim and Diane reading the Polar Express to the kids before gifts, it was suppose to happen the night before but tiredness and illness defeated that plan...in the end the kids lack of patience defeated the plan all together...someone was always trying to escape
let the gift opening chaos begin
Caleb the stick horse cowboy
playtime outside
Caleb and his racing 4-wheeler
racing down the steep culdesac sidewalk
at an old railroad logging camp trying our best to get a photo of the 4 of them that is grandparent calendar worthy...one of Jen's photographic masterpieces... this same photo from the other side would be filled with screaming/crying faces
a success mostly... Anna, Caleb, Johnny and Rachel sitting on a log in the logging/railroad camp 
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