Kelly and Pablo in Madrid: January 2012

New Years in Asturias

After our long flight home we picked up Goonie at the babysitters, unpacked, repacked and headed up to Mieres to be with Pablo's family for New Year's Eve. There, we continued on the food train, eating some traditional spanish food and drinking lots of wine! For New Year's Eve we had a great dinner feast, ate our grapes and had our Spanish family Christmas.... aka more presents!
Pablo was a good boy and ran the traditional San Silvestre race in Mieres. I was too jet-lagged and out of shape that I couldn't do it.

One more lap to go!

All done!

Spanish Tree

New Year's Eve Dinner

Dates wrapped in bacon

Seafood Soup

White fish with shrimp

Lemon-Champagne Sorbet

Lamb

12 Grapes to eat at Midnight!

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

We had a big family gathering for Christmas Eve at my mom's house. 14 total! I was very lucky to have both sets of grandparents there along with my mom's side of the family. We ate a great meal of tenderloain, potatoes romanoff and salad.
The next morning we opened presents with my mom's side in the morning, having the traditional mimosas and sausage casserole breakfast. Then in the afternoon we headed to Dad's house for Christmas dinner and more presents. Christmas dinner was ham, more potatoes romanoff and brocoli, along with dad's special deviled eggs.
So much great food at every turn!

Watching the Seahawks Christmas Eve

Appetizer table

"Kids" table

Big Kid table

The BEEF

Christmas morning

Pablo's fashion show- all his new gifts in one

Dad's famous Deviled Eggs!

Bud Light Crew

Annual Twin's shot (sister and grandpa)

Surviving the Freimuth Christmas

Ham- American Style!

Thank you to my amazing family for making this Christmas so great. From all the decorations to all the great food, everything was perfect! I'm so lucky I got to see so many friends and family while I was home. It means so much to me!

Random Holiday Pics

Here are a few random pictures while we were home. I had a little holiday fiesta at my dad's house and I got to see my cousins, my grandparents and a few friends. It was great to see everyone all at once.

Our friends the Woffords! So nice of them to drive so far to see us

Meeting the newest member of the family- Kellen

Dad's Bug Light tree

Playing with the babies Lilly and Samson

We hit up mom's local hangout so Pablo could try his first martini- American style. Afterwards we loaded up the car with chex mix and took a drive around Mill Creek to check out all the Christmas lights!

Pablo's first Martini

Mom's house all lit up

Christmas in Seattle

We had a wonderful 13 day trip to Seattle to celebrate Christmas with my family. As per our arrangement, every other year we will spend Christmas in Seattle! Yea! This trip was much more low-key but fun-filled. We spent the first couple days sleeping and being lazy at my mom's house. We decorated the tree and I set up my famous snow village!

The tree and my village in the background

Close up inside the village

Then we headed for my dad's house for the next couple days and they showed us some local Christmas cheer. We went to Candy Cane lane at Bellevue Square to watch it snow and enjoy some pretty cool "little drummer boys". And we also went and checked out the Christmas boats and caroling on Lake Washington. I am a bad local because never once had I ever seen these things before but they were fun and very festive.