Issaquah Highlands Connections
December 2017 •
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Photo by Julie Clegg
The holiday season is a special time in Issaquah Highlands, so let’s appreciate being home for the holidays! What family holiday traditions do you follow at home with your family? Thank you to those community members who shared their stories and photos! My husband and I love to travel and are active in the Highland’s Travel Club. For the last 23 years, we have been collecting a Christmas ornament whenever we travel someplace new. We have dozens of them now and every year when we decorate our tree, we love to reminisce about the many trips we’ve taken together.” —MARY HALL
We have a lot of family Christmas traditions but one of our newer and favorite ones that we have been doing for about 6 years is our Lego winter village. I build the Lego sets and Missy sets up the village, complete with snow! New for this year will be a working Lego train and train station!”
— BEN ARMLIN Above, the Armlin family’s Lego winter village.
Our family of 5 enjoys many little traditions such as all members of the family decorate the Christmas tree. We love driving around the neighborhood looking at pretty Christmas lights, we also love our elf on the shelf, Kevin. And last, we love taking family pictures with Dear Santa!” —SANDRA FLOYD
One of our favorite Christmas traditions is for the biggest Christmas gift for my daughter. She has to work for it. It’s the last gift and there is a note on the Christmas tree. The note requires her to do something- like bark like a dog while hopping on one foot to the next note. We normally have about seven notes that lead her to the final spot and the final gift. She loves it and asks that we do it every year!” —NICOLE CAHANIN
Last Thanksgiving I cooked for the folks in Tent City off of exit 20. There are 40 tents there. Starting this year, I am going to cook for Christmas as well and bring them food. Exit 20 is barely 5 minutes from the Highlands. They are our neighbors, just not as fortunate as us. They loved my turkey biryani last year.” —SAIKAT SEN