Christmas with the Cousins

We spent Christmas this year in Seattle (Renton) or (technically unincorporated King County). We had a great time, as you could tell from the previous fatty post. But food was not the only focus of our time there. There were plenty of cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents to entertain, feed, and tease Will.
We'll start with cousin Hailey. Some of my friends and old roommates will be shocked to see this picture and realize that she's headed to high school next fall! I'm officially starting to get old.
Aunt Sara spent a good amount of time with the Willster. She probably fed him less cookies than most hence the sad face, but Will really does love his auntie Sara.

Matt was Will's favorite name to say during our stay there, and even a few weeks later. Cousin Matt was an expert at making Will laugh.
Matt also let Will play with his LightBrite! Will's new favorite toy.
Will didn't want to participate in the annual nativity. The kids did a great job this year with some fantastic costumes.
Christmas Eve was well documented by our paparazzi. But somehow we didn't get ANY pictures from Christmas morning, day, or evening!
I have to admit Will plays favorites. His all time favorite cousin, by far, is Natalie. She lets him squeeze her face, and mess up her toys. Will adores her and follows her around like a little, cute puppy.

Other stuff we did while on vacation was another murder mystery dinner. Here's the whole group "Cruising for Murder".
We didn't have an ugly sweater contest, but if we did, these two would have won!
We went to Snowflake Lane in Bellevue where there was dancing, holiday music, and fake snow falling from the mall. Will missed out because he was too tired.
We enjoyed some Washington nature going running in the neighborhood, hiking on Squak mountain, and exploring the woods behind my parent's house. I kind of miss being so close to wilderness.
Britton read, and cried, while reading The Christmas wish. Or was it called Christmas list, Christmas jars, Christmas shoes, Christmas orange, Christmas ice pick... It was some kind of Christmas noun.