Making of the 2017 Christmas Card

My mom loves to make a "photo-shopped" Christmas card every year.  She makes costumes for them.  This year, I had the idea of Peter, Susan and Lucy meeting Father Christmas in Narnia from the book: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".  We asked the Armstrong sisters (Lily & Charlotte) from next door to play my "sisters", and they said yes!  Dad dressed up as Father Christmas.

   

This card was harder because four people had to fit into it and the landscape of "spring thaw" was important.  The landscape ended up being this perfect painting on the internet.  Father Christmas gives the children weapons (and a healing potion) for the upcoming battle with the White Witch.

 We took pictures the day before Thanksgiving.  It was unusually HOT.  It ended up being 69 degrees and all of us were over dressed.

We tried several positions,

but this was the winner.

 

It was a good photo shoot.  The only bad thing was Una, our dog, got out and was missing close to an hour.  Fortunately, Malinda (Lily & Charlotte's Mom), Mom, and myself found Una down the street under a car.

That's Una.  She is opportunistic in her wandering.

Mom also made and designed my fair isle sweater vest.  She plans to publish the pattern in 2018, when she is done designing and making costumes for the Seussical.

Geocaching

I finally started geo caching with my parents this weekend.  My Dad downloaded the app so that we can now start finding all the caches in our area, and in new places we go.  I got introduced to geo caching by Andrea, Andy & Elliot on our school trip to Leavenworth and have decided to pick it up as a hobby this summer.  Geo caching is like treasure hunting, except the treasure is a water tight box or container that holds a piece of paper, and possibly other stuff.  

 Our first location today was in a park just west of Highline Community College.  We are checking Dad's phone for the coordinates of the cache.

 I think we should walk this way.....

 It's pretty here, but a little wild.  The plants are trying to take the paths back.

 Huh...we are close.

 Dad found this one.  It was hard because it was small.  This plastic tube contains the paper that you write your names on.

 I wrote down all three of us, plus the date.

I found another one in a parking lot down at South Center, how funny.   Geo caching is fun.  It gets us all out of the house searching for something.