Year in review 2012...

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* Top row (l-r)
Charlotte and Mom on Mom's birthday; Charlotte's Valentine's Day crayons for her Kindergarten class; Winter Hawks game with friends; Mrs. Davis' Kindergarten class auction project; Maddy & Charlie at Wicked; Lost her first tooth in March
* 2nd row
Cirque du Soleil's OVO; Captain American CANstruction at Aloha Campus; Charlie and Grandpa Cina after her flight; Four generations; Star Light Parade float; Fun with the Rohr's in Gig Harbor
* 3rd row
Relay rummage sale; 4th of July parade; Ginger, Melissa and Kathy at the TOP of Black Butte; Big Philly, mom and Melissa at Relay; AFO's summer picnics at Oaks Park; Kids Day in Aloha
* 4th row
Director Team for GPTW 5/10k FUN Run; Portland To Coast - Team Slow Poke; First Day of First Grade; Fun times at Sam & Logan's wedding; Parkinson's Walk; Batgirl
* 5th row
Monsters for a Cure; Instagram costume; Mom's first day driving; Purple Solo Cup at  Summit; Disney World at Christmas; KGW Toy Drive in Aloha
* Bottom row
Ray came to visit; WeBees annual Christmas Extravaganza; Christmas morning; Christmas with my folks; Family photo as Christmas gift; Dave, Uncle Terry, Aunt Lil, Claire and Marilyn after Christmas

THANK YOU Shelley for the idea & continued inspiration!  You can see our past year in reviews: 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008.

2012 was a good year, one that we have SO many things to be thankful for!

• Kathy and Victor both celebrated their 43nd birthdays
• Charlotte turned six and lost 5 teeth
• We are both still employed at Intel and we are VERY grateful for both of our jobs!!!
• Charlotte started First Grade and loves it!
• Charlotte continues gymnastics and loves it too!
• Thanks to Intel's GPTW (Great Place To Work), we were able to attend several hockey games, many movies, Charlotte's first musical Wicked at the Keller Auditorium and lots more FAMILY fun events!
• 2012 will be the year of the crocheted Mini-Monsters, Gnomes and Owls for a CURE!  Thankful for my partner in crime Rosemary!!!
• Kathy walked in my 2nd Portland To Coast Relay and LOVED IT!  Team Slow Poke ROCKS!!!
• Many of our friends were diagnosed with cancer, continue to fight their battle against the disease and we pray for and miss those who are no longer with us...
• Charlotte continues to grow into a smart, beautiful and funny little girl
• We went with my folks and my brother and his family to Florida in November...Universal Studios and Disney World - AWESOME!
• We had lots of fun with family and friends and are so blessed to have so many amazing people in our lives!
• My mom continues to have more good days than bad and despite all the obstacles, we count all our blessings and remain positive!!
• We are blessed with good health and look forward to a fun and fabulous 2013

We hope that 2012 was good to you and your family. Blessings to you in the new year and THANK YOU for being part of our lives.

Love - Kathy, Victor & Charlotte

Year in review 2011...

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* Top row (l-r)
Charlotte and Mom on Mom's birthday; Relay For Life Kickoff Party; Gymnastics; Charlotte and Victor on Mt. Hood; Lil, Mom & Uncle Terry; Fun on a snow day
* 2nd row
Disney World; Charlotte and Ariel; All 9 of us at Kyllo's in Lincoln City; Kathy & Kellie relaxing at the coast; Charlotte, Kaylie & Jack at Lincoln City; Charlotte's 5th birthday
* 3rd row
Charlotte's 5th birthday party; Charlotte's Pre-K graduation; Emanuel hospital's atrium where we spent most of June; 4th of July with friends; Mom's first day outside in nearly a month; Mom & Matt Aalto (mom's lead rescue worker)
* 4th row
Mom and Rosemary with quilt she made for mom; Mom & Keri after her first haircut out of the hospital; Beaverton's Relay For Life; Natalie & Charlotte at Intel's Bring Your Kid to Work Day; Aunt Meta, Charlotte and Uncle Bob; Portland To Coast
* 5th row
Mrs. Davis & Charlotte at Kindergarten Orientation; Charlotte and Dad at Charity Golf Tournament; Aunt Jan, Charlotte and Uncle Dennis; Pumpkin fun at Lakeview Farms; WeBee Quilters 20th anniversary retreat; Princess Leia
* Bottom row
Rosemary & Kathy at FUNdraising bazaar with Pom Pom Gloves; Thanksgiving; Rachel & Kathy at WinterHawks Game on Jumbo Tron; WeBee Quilters Annual Christmas Party; Kiddos and mustaches; Christmas 2011


THANK YOU Shelley for the idea & continued inspiration!  You can see our past year in reviews:  2010, 2009 and 2008.

2011 was a good year, one that we have SO many things to be thankful for!

• Kathy and Victor both celebrated their 42nd birthdays
• Charlotte turned five
• Victor is now officially a permanent employee at Intel and we are VERY grateful for both of our full time jobs!
• In March our little family of three went to Florida with Kathy's parents and had the trip of a lifetime at Disney World...truly memories to cherish forever!
• On June 3, 2011 we watched Charlotte graduate pre-K and later that afternoon our lives changed...my mom survived a head on car crash and is still recovering.  You really don't realize just how fortunate you are, until something pretty scary happens to those you love.
• Charlotte started Kindergarten and loves it!
• Charlotte continues gymnastics and loves it too!
• 2011 will be the year of the Pom Pom gloves and Wee Bees as we continue to raise money to help find a CURE!
• Many of our friends were diagnosed with cancer, continue to fight their battle against the disease and we pray for and miss those who are no longer with us...
• Charlotte continues to grow into a smart, beautiful and funny little girl
• Charlotte is really starting to GET Relay For Life, giving back and had a blast with JD, Mark & Pat Flynn at the Regional Relay Summit in Portland in November.
• We had lots of fun with family and friends and are so blessed to have so many amazing people in our lives!
• We are blessed with good health and look forward to a fun and fabulous 2012

We hope that 2011 was good to you and your family. Blessings to you in the new year and THANK YOU for being part of our lives.

Love - Kathy, Victor & Charlotte

Year in review 2010....

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* Top row (l-r)
Charlie, Madison & Matthew; Susie's birthday; Kathy & Victor's birthday dinner; Beaverton Relay Kick-off Party 2010; Myrtle the Turtle; Janel & Kathy on the Yarn Crawl
* 2nd row
Trip to Trillium Lake; Easter Egg Hunt and the McCabe Family; Kaylie, Charlie & Jack on the Mt. Hood Rail Road; Charlie and the tulip fields; Making Strides Against Breast Cancer; Charlie's 4th birthday dinner
* 3rd row
Victor at the annual Relay Rummage Sale showing his FULL support; Charlie and Dance Teacher Inga; Dad, Jessie & Murphy and Bark For Life; Maria and Charlie at Shrek 4 (thanks Intel); Kathy & Rosemary and more Letty's Bags; Ginger, Aunt Alice, Bob, Melissa, Kathy, Charlie and Mary at Sisters Quilt Show
* 4th row
Beaverton's Relay For Life; Dana and Charlie on the front page of Sandy Post; Tyler's 10th birthday party; Beavers Game; Disneyland; Beaverton Celebration Parade
* 5th row
Race for the Cure; Parkinson's Sole Support Walk; Meeting Bakerella; Pumpkin Patch fun; Halloween; Wee Ski, Angela and Wee Bee at Relay Summit
* Bottom row
Five cousins at Thanksgiving; Celebrating 5 years of Victor & Kathy; Winterhawks Teddy Bear Toss; Gingerbread house fun with Riley; WeBees Annual Christmas Party; Christmas 2010

THANK YOU Shelley for the idea & continued inspiration!

2010 was a very good year for our little family of three.

• Kathy & Victor both celebrated their 41st birthdays
• Charlotte turned four
  
• Victor started worked at Intel, then didn't and is now working at Intel again. THANKFUL and GRATEFUL for employment for both of us!
  
• Charlotte continues to LOVE school!!
• Charlotte started taking gymnastics and so far loves it!
  
• Kathy enjoyed another amazing year as the Event Chair of the Beaverton Relay For Life and is continually amazed at just how Relay brings us closer together and closer to a CURE!!!
• 2010 will FOREVER be the year of the Turtles and the Letty's Bags!!!
  
• Charlotte continues to grow into a beautiful and funny little girl
• We spent many days at the Oregon Coast
• Kathy & Charlotte spent 2+ weeks in CA with Kathy's parents and got to spend a great 3 days at the Happiest Place on earth with the Green Family Unit!
  
• Went snowshoeing only once this year, but hope to go many more times in 2011
• We had lots of fun with family and friends
• We are blessed with good health and look forward to a fun and fabulous 2011

We hope that 2010 was good to you and your family. Blessings to you in the new year and THANK YOU for being part of our lives.

Love - Kathy, Victor & Charlotte

Year in review 2009...

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* Top row (l-r)
Charlie making eggs New Year's morning; Nana's birthday; Susie's 40th birthday bash; my 40th birthday cake; fun at the Oregon coast; Victor's 40th birthday morning
* 2nd row
Relay kick-off party cake; Charlie & Miss Anne at Little Gym; Easter Egg Hunt in Sherwood; snowshoe trip to Mt. Hood; Twilight dinner at View Point Inn with Susie, Bev & Bonnie; Charlie's 3rd birthday party
* 3rd row
Trip to Mt. St. Helens; Memorial Day BBQ with friends; 4th of July parade; Julianna's wedding on Sauve's Island; Charlie & Riley at Columbia County Fair; Charlie during photo shoot
* 4th row
$1,000 Club members in Beaverton; Aunt Kellie & Charlie; the three cousins; Aunt Jan & the girls; most of the gang at the coast; the five 2nd cousins
* 5th row
Potato gun FUN; Matthew, Maddy & Charlie at the state fair; photo fun at Oregon coast; pumpkin patch fun; Charlie's Halloween costume; coffee cozy FUNdraiser goodness for Relay For LIfe
* Bottom row
Victor, Shawn, Susie & I at Jeff Dunham performance; Beaverton RFL Committee at Regional Summit; Thanksgiving 2009; WeBee Quilters Christmas Party; Gingerbread house fun with Rachel at Intel; Christmas 2009

THANK YOU Shelley for the idea last year & continued inspiration!

2009 was a very good year for our little family of three.

• Kathy & Victor both celebrated their 40th birthdays
• Charlotte turned three
• Victor started working at Intel
• Charlotte started pre-school (and loves it)
• Charlotte started a combination ballet/tap class and loves it
• Kathy became the Event Chair of the Beaverton Relay For Life and re-found her inner Relay spirit
• Charlotte continues to grow into a beautiful and funny little girl
• We spent many days at the Oregon Coast
• Went snowshoeing only once this year, but hope to go many more times in 2010
• We had lots of fun with family and friends
• We are blessed with good health and look forward to a fun and fabulous 2010

We hope that 2009 was good to you and your family. Blessings to you in the new year and THANK YOU for being part of our lives.

Love - Kathy, Victor & Charlotte

Finally -- Colorful Year in Review 2008...

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* Top row (l-r)
Snow shoeing at Mt. Hood; Charlie at Cannon Beach in February; St. Patrick's Day Parade; Josi & Glenn's wedding reception; Murphy & Jessie; Charlie's 1st Wee Bee hat
* 2nd row
Karen Russell photography class; trip to Hawaii; Charlie's first swim; Charlie's 2nd b-day; Susie & Shawn's wedding; fun in Anacortes
* 3rd row
Charlie & I are both $1,000 club Relay members; 150 Survivors at Hillsboro RFL; Erica & Stephen's wedding; Shawn on 4th of July; Sisters with most of the WeBees; Newport RFL with Hoffmans and Mr. Litkie
* 4th row
Remodel begins; Charlie & Eldin; Papa Cina earns his sports pilot license; trip to AZ; Charlie at the pumpkin patch; amazing fall colors
* 5th row
Charlie & Miss Anne on Halloween; Kim gets married; Relay University with Mark & Shelley; Midnight showing of Twilight with Bonnie, Vickie, Bev & Capi; Green family reunion in Redmond; Thanksgiving
* Bottom row
The three amigos; Zoo lights; WeBees Christmas party; portrait of Charlie; SNOW @ mom & dad's place; Christmas Day with Nana & Papa

THANK YOU Shelley for the awesome instructions and inspiration!!!

2008 Year in review...

Hard to believe yet another year has flown by. Victor, Charlie and I are so very lucky to have our wonderful family & friends both near and far. Here's a little look back at our 2008...I'm also working on a photo collage, but I'm a little challenged yet when it comes to Photoshop elements (Shelley said she'd send me instructions when she can).

• Trips to Mt. Hood for some sledding & snow shoeing...just need Charlie to start liking the snow!
• We attend four weddings this year of family & close friends.
• Josi/Glenn in March, St. Patty's Day to be exact.
• Susie/Shawn in May in HAWAII.
• Erica/Stephen in June on one of the HOTTEST days of the year and the ceremony was OUTSIDE.
• Kim/Tom in November at a cool pub in Sherwood!
  
• Shawn saves my photos...love having techno geeks as friends!
• The NY Giants win the Superbowl!!!
  
• Victor & I both turned 39...oh my, 40 is less than 6 weeks away.
• The KU Jayhawks win the Final Four b-ball tournament.
• We go to Oahu, Hawaii for 2 weeks in May to visit Nana & Papa Green and Victor & I go to Maui to attend Shawn & Susie's wedding. We also get to see Scott & Suzanne!
• Celebrating Charlie's 2nd birthday in Hawaii.
  
• Fun trip up to Anacortes to visit the Washington Greens. Uncle T and the entire town work on an amazing playground for the kids. Charlie, Claire and Marilyn get to spend a fun-filled day together and we celebrate their 3 May birthdays. We also stop by Relay For Life of Stanwood to visit my blogging buddy Doreen and her family.
• 6th Annual Relay For Life of Hillsboro - over $120,000 raised and over 150 Survivors honored. WeeBees for a Cure are the 5th highest FUNdraising team.
  
• Great Nana Charlotte, Uncle Donald and Aunt Sue come for the family wedding and we get to spend some fun time with them. Great Nana gets escorted off Cannon Beach by the Chief of police... ;-)
• 4th of July--fun at the Hillsboro Parade and then over at Susie & Shawn's place for some WILD fireworks courtesy of their crazy neighbor Chris!
• Sisters quilt show week with my WeBee buddies at Black Butte Ranch. We've been going every year since 1992.
• A few bocce ball tournaments this summer for Victor, Garland, Ken and Vincenzo. They don't win, but they have a great time playing!!!
  
• We just get settled into my parents home and then they move back early and we then live together until our house remodel is done in October.
• Biggest change for 2008...we had a pretty big remodel done on our home. 2 bedrooms added and COLOR is added to our lives via Maria (aka-Eldin) our friend and painting guru.
• Relay For Life of Newport -- camped out for 18 hours with the Hoffmans and Mr. Litkie..it was fun just attending another Relay and having zero responsibility!
• Trips to the Oregon Zoo and getting to see baby Sam the new elephant who was born in Sept.
  
• Summer Olympics see Michael Phelps win 8 gold medals.
• Victor & Kathy go see Jeff Dunham and Robin Williams perform in Portland and laugh their heads off.
  
• I attend my 4th Relay For Life Leadership Training Summit in Reno in Sept. Dr. Gordy Klatt (founder of Relay) is back and I get the pleasure of hanging out with our divisions top fundraisers. Another AWESOME experience.
• October has us going to Arizona to visit Nana/Papa Cina and Great Nana Charlotte. We have lots of fun and Victor & I get a couple of nights up in Phoenix while Nana & Papa babysit for us.
• Halloween Charlie dresses up like Pooh the Super Sleuth and gets to attend 4 different parties.
  
• Relay University in mid-November. Best one I've been a part of. The Relay Staff did an amazing job arranging everything. I had the pleasure of presenting with Shelley & Mark.
  
• November brings the Green Family Unit (my brother Tim, Sister-in-law Kellie, nephew Jack and niece Kaylie) to visit from San Diego. We get to spend a fun-filled weekend in Seattle/Redmond and get to spend some great time with Uncle T/Aunt L, Dave/Katie/Claire & Marilyn. The 5 kiddos get along great. Early Thanksgiving meal the Saturday before and it was just a wonderful weekend.
• One word sums up December.....SNOW!!! We had record snowfall and had a white Christmas! I've been instructed to NEVER hope for a white Christmas again, unless we decide to spend Christmas on Mt. Hood some day.

• Along with all the good times, we also lost some dear friends this year and we continue to keep them and their families in our thoughts and prayers.
• We also keep our friends and family that have and continue to have some pretty serious health issues, in our thoughts and prayers.
  

We hope that 2009 will be everything you want it to be and THANK YOU for being in our lives (even if we don't get to see you as often as we would like)! Come visit...we technically have a guest room now, it's just a little full still with my stuff!

Love - Kathy, Victor & Charlotte