Crawfords On The Move: A very merry Thacher-Crawford Thanksgiving in Whidbey!!!

This was the first official year that Robert and I were both away from our home. We were fortunate enough to have my mom and dad, a.k.a. Mom and Dad Thacher, with us to celebrate our first Thanksgiving in Washington. Throughout the week they were here we did many different and exciting things. Mom and dad were able to to meet many of the friends we have made, travel to Port Townsend, ride the ferry, explore some museums, eat at our favorite "nice" place on the island "The Oystercatcher," visit Greenbank Farm, tool around Seattle, have dinner at the Space Needle, visit the King Tut Exhibit, travel around the Naval Base and visit Robert at work (dad got a private session), explore some of Anacortes, and come into my classroom to meet my kiddos and coworkers. Overall, we enjoyed spending quality time with them and Bentley loved meeting his grandparents. Even though the week flew by it was so nice waking up to their laughter and going to sleep with their familiar and comforting voices. If you know anything about us Thachers, you know we are not ones to be quiet and always come ready for a good time! Saying goodbye was certainly not easy, but knowing we will see them again in August puts a big smile on our faces. I always have a list of "summer" activities for us to do and one of them is having Jewell Thacher go crabbing ;)

In addition to the photos from Thanksgiving I have added some from our more recent trip we took with some friends to Leavenworth, WA. Each year they host the Leavenworth Christmas Lighting Festival and it truly put us into the Christmas spirit. You couldn't help but feel as if you were in a perfect Winter Wonderland! We enjoyed the caroling, lighting ceremony, tooling around the shops, eating a fabulous Italian restaurant, and staying at the 59er's Cabins. The cabins were certainly an experience!

We will be spending the Christmas Holiday in Whidbey and this will be the first time we have our own Christmas. Robert is on-call for duty throughout Christmas and New Years so we are planted in Washington. I find comfort in knowing that I get to spend my first Christmas with Robert and am excited to make our own traditions. We already have some Christmas dinner plans with friends as many other military families will be here for Christmas. If there is one thing we have learned, in our short time as a military family, it is that your friends become your family. We are fortunate to have met amazing people and look forward to continuing new friendships and traditions!

The Crawford Clan will be very busy up and through Christmas. I volunteered to host the OHE teacher staff Holiday Party at our house so we are already prepping and decorating. We have a couple Holiday Dinners and housewarming parties along with school concerts and parties. We hope y'all have a Happy Holidays and wonderful Christmas. We miss you, love you, and will be thinking of you!!!

59er's Cabin Diner (good food and shakes)

Oh little town of Leavenworth.

Bringing out the lights!

The Wright family visited and mom was able to meet
Kathryn Wright, who Nana used to babysit and happens
to live in Whidbey and teach at OHE as well :)