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2022 in Review

It's New Year's Eve, and normally we would be going to the same friend's house that we've been going to for the last 10 years, but she had to cancel at the last minute, so we are just going to be relaxing at home with popcorn and movies.

So, I've hardly blogged all year.  I just haven't been into it at all, but I'm determined to keep this thing going until the girls graduate from high school.  I realized a few weeks ago that I never finished blogging about our Boston/DC trip.  So hopefully I will get to that in the next few days.  Meanwhile, here are a few highlights of our year.

The girls turned 14 in February.  We had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory with Paul's mom and a bunch of their friends.

Not a great picture but the only one I got

In June they graduated from 8th grade and a few days later we went with several other graduates from all 3 middle schools in the district to Boston and DC.  You can read part one here and part two will hopefully be posted soon.

Another thing I never got around to blogging about was our trip to Orlando with a friend and her daughter in August.  We went to 6 parks--1 per day with a few pool days interspersed. Super fun, other than the heat and humidity.

Close, but not quite...


At the tail end of August, the girls started 9th grade.  I can't believe we have high schoolers already.

Paul and I attended the Steve Miller concert at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville.  We hadn’t done that since before the girls were born. So fun!





In November, Paul and I traveled back to Florida, this time to Palm Beach, for a memorial.  It was the one year anniversary of a friend's passing, and her fiance, Kenny, took a group out on a chartered boat and he put her ashes in the ocean and then we had a nice lunch at the Four Seasons. Later Paul, Kenny and I went to the beach where I finally got to set foot in the Atlantic ocean after four times in Florida.



We all wrote notes to Erica on biodegradable paper and threw them in the ocean with flowers

Sunflowers were her favorite 


First time setting foot in the Atlantic


On Christmas Eve we went to my niece and nephew-in-law's home up in Mount Vernon, and then on Christmas Day Paul's mom and sister came to our house.

The girls with their cousin (technically first concert removed. The daughter of their first cousin)




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