The Guddat Gang

This is Jon. Like everyone else, December's calendar is packed with family parties, school events and time with the immediate family. Here's a little glimpse of our December. Delaney's Kittitas Valley Community Choir group, the Allegros, sang at the CWU Music Hall once again. Very fun to see. This was just a couple of weeks after singing in Downtown Ellensburg's Moments to Remember the day after Thanksgiving. She's a busy singer. We headed to Leavenworth for the town's annual Christmas tree lighting festival. It's an incredibly popular event and last weekend's festival was packed. I'm pretty sure all of the I-5 corridor was in attendance. The good thing is it snowed all day and the sledding hill, while beaten down a bunch, provided ample entertainment. There's us in the middle. Yes, I was having fun as well. A couple of family shots. The main Christmas tree. I got videos of everything, but like in some recent previous posts, I...

It has snowed in Kittitas a few times already, including once before Halloween. Our backyard looks pretty serene one afternoon. Brittany with her foot propped up after surgery. She's been pretty immobile for nearly a month now. To say it's been frustrating is an understatement. Delaney posing after her Thanksgiving presentation at school. The men working the kitchen during Thanksgiving. My homeboys Duane, Dave and I rocked the turkey, ham and potatoes and I did a particularly bang-up job on the celery. Apparently Adelyn found comfort in cousin Madison's arms after a fun and food filled Thanksgiving. I would say this is Brittany and I on Black Friday. It wasn't Friday yet. Not sure why I'm smiling. Adelyn lost her second bottom tooth. Me and the girls before we headed out to get our Christmas tree. With Brittany in a walking boot, she stayed home and trusted my good parenting skills in the snowy woods. Peaking through a meadow to fi...

This is Jon. We had plenty of fun in October as seen below....... Dad and Sharon came over for Delaney's birthday and we went to the fall festival at a nursery. Delaney made a friend. Thinking about making this our family photo this Christmas. Thoughts? Best friends. Getting lost in the corn maze with Grandpa Jeff. For our 10th anniversary, Brittany made a slideshow with our wedding and honeymoon photos, some trinkets from our honeymoon in Jamaica and JAMAICAN JERK CHICKEN for dinner. I capitalized dinner since that's all I ate morning, noon and night in Jamaica. She didn't use jerk seasoning either. She said it took her two days to prepare the jerk to bake into the chicken. That's love y'all. 10 years! Delaney's birthday gift from Adelyn. Mommy has used them too. Delaney devours books and this one was from Adelyn. Delaney with a homemade pinata, thanks to our next door neighbor Kathleen. Craziness around the pinata...