Family Holiday Gatherings

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying the holiday season. We definitely kept busy, so much so that we needed to create a calendar of all our events so that we could keep track of everything. (Go ahead. Make fun of us--Type A, over-organized freaks that we (I) are/am. But you try to keep track of 4 kids, school and holiday activities without losing your head without one.)

Stay with me as I try to chronical the last week.

Sunday, December 16th: Tiffany's Birthday
My sister-in-law, Tiffany, celebrated a birthday with us. We had a nice dinner at our house while the kids ran around.



Thursday, December 20th: OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science & Industry)

We spent a morning at OMSI visiting the Artic exhibit and playing in the science playground. The girls particularly enjoyed playing in the chipmunk treehouse and sliding down the polar bear slide.

Friday, December 21st: Bowling at Big Al's

Quite possibly the best time to go bowling with small children is at 10 AM. Big Al's was a ghost town, but we had a great time with the ginormous bowling alley to ourselves, bumpers and all. Vanessa did quite well beating everyone the first game!

Vanessa has great form: throwing is the newest strategy


Josie tried her hand at bowling even though the ball weighs just about as much as she is



Pop: bowling utopia

Miss Olivia trying Vanessa's bowling form

Baby switching: Charles holding Colette and I am holding Audrey

Here's a video of my niece, Miss Olivia, and her superb bowling technique.

Saturday, December 22nd: Declan's 4th and Kristin's 40th Birthday Party

We celebrated Kristin's 40th birthday party a little late (12/13) and Declan's 4th birthday a little early (12/27) at Grandmom and Pop's condo clubhouse. I busted out the camera equipment to take a family picture--despite what seemed like a thousand pictures, I wasn't able to get a picture with everyone looking. I wasn't terribly pleased with our choice of backgrounds as well, but I'm learning...

The Kuffner Family

(The whole enchilata...for now...)

Charles, Tiffany, Olivia & Audrey

Mike & Kristin

(baby on the way--April 2008)

Eileen & Declan

Miss Olivia helping Aunt Kris blow out her candles

Snuggles with Josie

Jack insisted that Mickey got a photo

Grace & Vanessa (2nd cousins) enjoyed each other's company

Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, James, Grace & Laura

Birthday Boy Declan with his incredible cake!

Sunday, December 23: Kristin's Baby Shower

Aunt Kathy and all her "Martha" glory, held a wonderful ladies luncheon in honor of Baby Dutton scheduled to arrive in April 2008. Kristin, Mommy-to-be, received wonderful clothes and goodies for her little baby boy.