The De La Torre Family

Matt & Danielle's Wedding

In March we flew to CA for a friend's wedding ... and to visit family! Here are some photos.

View from the reception site ...

March Visit to CA

Some cute photos of our nieces and nephew ...

Meet Lucy Linh Phung!

In February we went to Southern California to meet the newest addition of our family - our new niece, Lucy Linh.

This weekend we went skiing with our Life Group at Crystal Mountain. It was a beautiful day and we had a great time! Our adventure for the day was that we got a little lost on the mountain and ended up on a double black diamond run. It was definitely beyond our experience level, but we did make it down the mountain two hours later. :)

Snow Shoeing at Denny Creek

We went snow shoeing with a few friends at Denny Creek. There was SO much snow! We did get stuck a time or two on the roads and had to get "pushed" out by a truck. It was quite funny ... thank goodness for an older car. :)

Marc getting ready to brave the hill on the sled ...

Marc at the bottom of the hill ... the only thing that stopped the crazy boys who went down face first was their face hitting the snow bank. The girls were much smarter. Gliding gently down on our bottoms ... :)

Mel on her way down.

A beautiful ice waterfall that we hiked to. You'll see below that people were ice climbing up it. It was amazing!

Kyle and Emily ... Marc and Kyle have a mutual friend in OC, so they used to hang out in high school, but haven't seen each other since. Kyle and his girlfriend moved to Seattle a few months ago and we ran into them at the airport on our way home from Christmas. They were brave enough to join us on one of our adventures (and I think they had fun too!).

"It's Too Late to Apologize" ... performed by Jack Vu Phung

This might be the funniest thing I've ever seen. Here's my nephew performing "It's Too Late to Apologize" ... he just turned 4! :)

California Christmas

Here are some photos from our trip down south for Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

SNOW!

We woke up this morning, Dec 14, to SNOW! It is so beautiful.

Tiger Mountain

A beautiful hike at Tiger Mountain ... and a long one too ... about 10 miles

Can you see the tree tops poking through the fog? Gorgeous!

Salmon Run, Flaming Geyeser

Today we saw one of the most AMAZING things ever. We saw dozens of salmon swimming upstream to lay their eggs. The sad part was they actually die along the way. Some of these salmon must have been 2 feet +. It was incredible to watch!