Christmas 2010

Christmas in Seattle was wonderful.

The newest Dunlaps, Hudson and Esther, enjoyed spending time with each other.

Christmas was spent talking and laughing, opening gifts, and enjoying the outdoors. 

Seb and Noah relived some of their boyhood memories in the Nerf War Forest

On Sunday, the mommies showed off their cute babies.

Cousins rock!

Hudson attended his first ballet, the Nutcracker.
Babies = an upgrade to the nursing room - hooray private seating!

We loved getting to spend time with Mama D's brothers (Trent and Scott) and Aunt Nancy (not pictured). They completely cracked us up and made things pretty lively!

We took a (rather cold) trip to Pike's Place Market and the waterfront, and the babies froze their little tooshies off!

Oh! So in love! 

Seattle brings back all the memories of our engagement!

Friends forever!

We stayed a few days longer than Seb's siblings and got to spend some one-on-one time with Mama and Papa D. Those few extra days turned out to have absolutely gorgeous weather (freaky! rare! yay for us!)

Touching the tide pool creatures at the Seattle Aquarium.

Sweet baby enjoying the fishies.

One evening, Seb and Hudson and I took a ride on a ferry to relive our engagement.

Woo! So windy!

Beautiful city!

Hudson was such a good boy the entire trip. He loves being with family and being out and about!

We also took a Duck Tour of Seattle. The tour bus turns into a boat!

So pretty!

Our view of Seattle from the middle of Lake Union

The house with the green roof is the Sleepless in Seattle home of Jonah and Sam!

We spent some time at the Woodland Park Zoo. Look at that cute miniature panda cow!

Little Hud losing it at the zoo with his grandpappy.

I fell in love with the brown bears. We got to see them eat from about a foot away!

Our 5th Christmas together!

Shivering our buns off at Gas Works Park. 

So cool!

Christmas in Seattle was awesome! We got to spend a lot of time with family and see a lot of neat things. Highlights included: Christmas Eve Pagaliacci Pizza . A Christmas walk with the babies . Watching the Nutcracker from the mother's lounge . Laughing and games with Scott, Trent, and Nancy . Mama Dunlap's turkey dinner . Sethrina and Josh's lasagna and curry . Meeting Langley the lab . Spending another holiday with our dear friend, Josh . Beecher's Macaroni and Cheese at Pike's Place Market . Shopping at Nordstrom Rack . Basketball with the MTZ boys . Tangled and hot tub feet soaking with Laura . Beautiful Snoqualmie Falls . Lots of teriyaki . Lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa and aunties and uncles for Hudson . Delicious salmon at Chinooks . Red Robin on the pier . Feeling starfish and watching sea otters at the aquarium . Gorgeous views on our Duck Tour and at Gas Works Park . Beautiful sunset ride on the Bainbridge Ferry . Watching home movies . Cute brown bears at the Woodland Park Zoo . Seeing Mama Dunlap teach piano and reading . Our first movie, The Tourist, with Hudson . Pagaiacci's, Pagaliacci's, and more Pagaliacci's!

(We also had two Christmases here in Albuquerque as well! Mom put together a delicious smorgasbord of appetizers - orange chicken, jalapeno poppers, meatballs, and more! The next day, she made delish steaks. She is the cooking queen and always makes the holidays memorable!)

So many fun memories! So little time to write! Hopefully, these little tidbits will help jog our memories of all the good times had! We hope your Christmas was wonderful, too. I am so grateful to have family to love and who love us.