{"id":78940,"date":"2016-01-03T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=78940"},"modified":"2016-01-03T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:30:17","slug":"seattle-christmas-and-new-years-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=78940","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Christmas and New Years in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a wonderful time in Seattle over the Christmas holiday. We stuffed coffee, sushi and Seattle wanderings throughout the visit- I can barely remember what order it wall went down in…We started of with CB and Mikee who were gracious enough to host a small gathering with my bestie Annie and Patti…of course, Marlene and Roger and Andrea and Charlie crashed the party for dessert! Then, we went near Bellingham overlooking Lumi Island to a rental house where we went all Loopy with family eating amazing foods, cookies, MEAT and wine. After what we decided to call ‘The Fattening’, we went the Treehouse Point Holiday party to party down with the Treehousers… and then finally made it to Vashon Island to hang with the Yunkers for a few days. It was a very relaxing time in the beautiful island setting although we did leave for an afternoon to do lunch with our lovely doula\/fairy godmother, Whitney and dinner with the Baxter family. AND THEN we went back to the mainland to spend Christmas with the Barnes family which included park fun, dirty youtube videos and LOTS of cake, cookies, chocolate and laughs. (pix of handmade gifties below) We all celebrated\u00a0Christmas dinner at Palomino’s with Francis. Finally, we spent the last couple days at Marlene and Rogers house (which included another Loopy celebration with MOAR food and delicious booze) even though we escaped briefly to dine with the Walters family and catch Star Wars with the Barnes Love at the Cinema- quite the holiday! We were ready but sad to go.<\/p>\n

We arrived to a quiet\u00a0house only to have Kris and Tiff arrive days later to celebrate New Years and Kris’s Birthday together. We played legos, walked through parks and generally had a nice, relaxing hang out\/catch up. It’s been quite a vacation.<\/p>\n

I am kind of, sort of ready to go back to work…<\/p>\n

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