Posted in Christmas, Finn, Holidays, Kids, Nick, Reese, Rhonda, Videos on December 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
but he didn’t.
No gift better than these.
The family Jenkins.
Reese with one of her favorite gifts.
Ollie wondering how much of Finn’s harmonica she’ll have to put up with.
Finn and his new iPad.
Reese received an iPad AND a Barbie house.
Another great Christmas.
Posted in Christmas, Finn, Friends, Holidays, Kids, Nick, Parties, Reese, Rhonda, Videos on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas Day finally arrived yesterday. Good times were had by all.
We started the day around 9 am with lots of presents. Santa Claus must have gone into debt, because the presents were many:
I’d call it an embarrassment of riches — except we’re not rich.
The kids with, um, Santa.
Finn modeling his best present IMHO.
At least Rhonda was looking at the camera ...
Later that morning the family put together the first-ever Jenkins family jigsaw puzzle:
The Jenkins family puzzle proved to be a big hit.
Later that afternoon the Beckers, Norman and Benezra joined us for a little holiday cheer.
Reese and the Becker girls.
The fellas.
Can't imagine how this conversation went.
Isabel snapped this pic - the camera seemed about as big as the photographer.
Isabel reading one of the new additions to Reese's growing library.
Unfortunately the ever-present picture man wasn’t in high gear this day, so we didn’t snap a lot of pics.
Posted in Christmas, Family Outings, Holidays, Kids, Nick, Reese, Seattle on December 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The countdown to Christmas continues — and so do the festivities.
On Wednesday night the family Otterlee came over for a little gift exchange. Grant, Hayes, Reese and Finn cleaned house. Fortunately there were no Lite Brites to be had.
Getting ready to exchange gifts.
On Thursday night the family Jenkins ventured out of Laurelhurst to — gasp — Ravenna. Our destination was Candy Cane Lane. From there we went to dinner at Verlamos.
A festive house on Candy Cane Lane.
Reese and me at Verlamos.
We took last night off.
Tonight was Christmas Eve. After dropping by Amanda and Cal’s to, inter alia, see Stanley the Camel (see him in 2009):
we enjoyed a quiet, family-only dinner at home:
Tonight? Well, someone will be paying us a visit.
Posted in Christmas, Finn, Friends, Holidays, Kids, Nick, Parties, Reese, Rhonda on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Less than two weeks to Christmas and the festivities continue.
On Saturday the family Jenkins headed to Sand Point Country Club for brunch with Santa Claus.
The fam with Reese's balloon Barbie at SPCC.
On Sunday we joined the Otterlees and about fifty of their closest friends at the Otter Family Christmas shindig. Standing room only there, and unfortunately we didn’t take any good pictures. From there we headed to Jodi Cohen’s for the kids’ first-ever latka party. The kids learned how to spin dreidels, but ditto on the picture thing. From there we returned home whereupon Ronnie, Ollie and the kids finished decorating the family Christmas tree.
Hard work, done.
Notwithstanding the family Christmas tree, on Monday night Reese got own tree:
Not sure why she needs a personal tree, but I’ll pick my battles.
Yesterday Sofia Lippmann joined Tamir and Moe Richardson with Reese and Finn for a little private Christmas party at casa de Jenkins.
Tamir, Sophia and Reese, apparently looking at multiple photographers.
I did not attend but from what I could tell the gifts were really flowing. Reese and Finn received a Lite-Brite for Christmas — you know, that toy with all those little lights. Those’ll do well in the vacuum cleaner. From what I can tell it was part Christmas party part photo shoot — lots more photos are available here.
Posted in Christmas, Family Outings, Finn, Friends, Holidays, Kids, Reese, Rhonda on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While I was hacking it up at the annual One Club Open, Rhonda and the kids joined the family Otterlee for an afternoon out at the Santa Train in North Bend. Since I was not there I don’t have a lot to add here other than a few pics:
Santa pics are getting better each year.
I know Otter well enough to know he has fine teeth. But for some reason he won't show them.
This was the closest the gals came to getting the kids to look at the camera.
Posted in Christmas, Dogs, Finn, Friends, Holidays, Kids, Nick, Parties, Reese on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I was growing up, my grandparents used to throw a party every Christmas Eve. Between ten and fifteen neighbors and old friends would come by for a few hours of good food, booze and conversation. Those parties remain some of my fondest childhood memories.
We aren’t quite there in the numbers department yet, but I’m hoping we can have our own Christmas party tradition. We got it started today with a hoer doerves and dinner with the Beckers and Benezra. We started with the Beckers mixing Cosmopolitans at bar de Nick. We ended it with Benezra and I horizontal, watching Arthur. Lots of good fun in between.
A few pics:
Liz may be tired of my way-too-stiff drinks because she and Harald quickly took the reigns at the bar.
When there's people at play, Finn will lay. And lay and lay and lay.
The gals posing for the paparazzi.
Benezra wowed us all with the story of how he ended up in the hospital with a piece of glass portruding from his head.
Ollie -- or at least her stomach -- had a long day.
Gotta have this one in there.
Benezra and I ended the night with some DVD trivia and then Arthur.
Posted in Christmas, Dogs, Finn, Holidays, Kids, Nick, Reese, Rhonda on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning was Christmas morning.
Obama is still president, so we are still in a recession.
Sure didn’t feel like it.
A few pics (more here):
These two have watched over many of my Christmas mornings since I was a kid.
Mom, this doesn't LOOK like a recession ...
Someone's stoked ...
Mom with her first-ever present from Reese.
Ditto for me.
Minutes before this photo was taken, Ollie broke in to the extra bedroom and ate our Christmas rolls. I think she had a tummy ache.
My second-favorite present -- a lilac sweater, a la the 2010 Ryder Cup team.
Reese's first Barbie doll.
All Ronnie wanted for Christmas was for Finn to look at the camera.
Thinking about it.
Finn's shopping cart ended up being the only thing I had to assemble this year.
Posted in Christmas, Family Outings, Finn, Friends, Holidays, Nick, Reese, Rhonda on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we celebrated the birthday of our Lord and Savior. My 41st such celebration, Ronnie’s 44th, Reese’s third and Finn’s second. Finn and I were a smidge under the weather and weren’t in much of a celebrating mood, but that didn’t keep us from a full day. We spent Christmas morning under the tree, me playing with our just-dusted-off camcorder, Ronnie snapping a pic any time someone moved. A few of them:
I thought we were in a recession ...
Opening literally dozens of presents ain't easy.
Here, something else you can't live without ...
I can get used to this ...
There's a reason this is an elephant and not a donkey.
It is RAINING stuff ...
Now baby No No has a penguin with whom to hang.
Very. Hard. Work.
Later we trekked over to the Otterlees for a fantastic din din courtesy of Jayne and her mom Lynn. Again, the camera was out and often:
The hostesses.
Big Otter, Little Otter.
A pre-dinner chill session.
Is he SALUTING her?
Posted in Christmas, Holidays on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we got our Christmas tree up. Took a few days, but I gotta say it looks fantastic. The pics probably don’t do it justice:
Great tree, would look better with window treatments.
As close as I can get to everyone looking in the right direction.
Posted in Christmas, Finn, Firsts, Firsts, Holidays, Memorable Days, Nick, Reese, Rhonda, tagged Christmas on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was Finn’s first, and Reese’s second, Christmas. It was a very, very white one, much to their parents’ chagrin. A few photos, more of which can be found in the Fall-Winter Snapfish photo book:
Finn with Reese's new monkey.
Finn and me after opening our presents.
Reese and me, post shave, watching one of our new Civil War documentaries. Interest level about what you'd expect.
