The Pintler Family: Winter Re-Cap

Here's a quick little summary of the winter months. Warning: Large Post, Photo Overolad! Not sure how we are already halfway into March on the heels of spring, but here we are! The days continue to fly faster than the one before! Going all the way back to November, here is a slew of pics taken on thanksgiving day. We spent the day at the Lake Houses eating delicious food and enjoying great conversation. It was perfection.
We also took the oppourtunity to caputre a quick extended family photo shoot since the whole gang was present, which is a rare occurrence! It was quite a task with so many restless little ones invloved! But we succeeded!!

The winning shot of the whole crew

"Big Kid Cousins"

Attempting to invlove Kash

Settled on this :)

The best one of all Pintler Boys

The "next best one" :)

Pintler Fam Fall Photo!

Candid moments from the day..........

This one cracks me up

They made these bows out of sticks found outside. So cute. I love how much Kason adores Kora.

And always has:)

The cooks!

(Some of them)

The week after Thanksgiving, Nick had his ankle surgery, which was when things all went downhill as far as 'being in control of it all' is concerned. I was a bit naive and wasn't realizing how much of an impact this would have on the holiday season!! I of course took the initial recovery into consideration, and had that all planned and 'scheduled' out. But what I didn't plan for was the fact that Nick would be unable to walk well for the next 4-6 weeks. When you have Christmas shopping and festivities on the calendar, that presents a bit of an issue. Even seeing Santa was a major ordeal! But nonetheless, we survived and have many wonderful memories of Christmas 2012!!

We were smart enough to put the tree up and get lights on prior to surgery. Thank heaven! Otherwise, it might not have happened at all!!

Yes, we have a fake tree. Something I SWORE I would never have. Yet, it was the best move ever! No pine needles, no watering, perfect height and shape (which was an issue every year, I would need the perfect tree, Nick had more 'vision' and could see past imperfections. Always ended in an argument! Crisis now adverted...) Love my fake tree. And smelly candles to go with it of course.

Surgery Day!!

Post surgery.... After Decorating the tree

He's totally hammin up the sad face

At Grandmas for the annual cousin sleepover and gift exchange!!!

And then the whole gang with their new Christmas jammies!!

Pintler Posse

Visiting Santa

Included these to document the chaos. Kash running wild, nick unable to keep up. It was comical. I even had trouble keeping up, and I have two good feet!!

Funny tidbit....We had originally planned on making a big ordeal of Santa by going all the way downtown Spokane and eating at Rocky Rococos (one of our faves!) As time went on, and the holiday chaos ensued, I decided to take it a little easier, go to Valley mall for Santa and do red robin for dinner. Once the day finally came, we ended up settling for Silverlake mall and cafe rio. This is just a small example of my high expectations versus reality:)

Christmas Eve