Christmas on the Slopes

 The big gift this year was 2 days of ski lessons at Monarch Ski Resort with the Thompson family.  

It was cold and the wind was whipping, but they had a great time.  Well, all of them except Little Guy.  He was not happy that he had to go my himself to relearn skiing.  Apparently, he had grown so much since the last time he had to start over.  By the end of it he was tired and had altitude sickness.  He didn't want to come back, but he agreed to try for an hour the second day.  They let him ski with his siblings and all of a sudden he loved it.  It turns out he was just lonely and wanted to be with BB. 

On the second day they skied from the very top of the mountain and loved it.

Merry Christmas!

Stopping In

On our way to the Thompson Reunion we met up with Uncle Daniel and Aunt Summer and their kiddos for some yummy Indian food in Castle Rock. It was a quick but fun visit.  We met Baby Henry for the first time. 

I-70

I am convinced that the drive from Kansas City to Denver along I-70 is one of the absolutely most mind-numbingly boring drives on this planet.  In an attempt to make it slightly more interesting I looked up oddities in Western Kansas.  We saw the largest easel in the world in Goodland, Kansas and the Wheat Jesus Billboard in Colby, Kansas.  I know my family deep (very deep) down my family loves it.

You get so excited when you finally get to Colorado only to realize that Eastern Colorado looks exactly like Western Kansas.  It's more of the same.  We stopped at the Old Town Museum on the Colorado side.

We liked the decorations and they had an elf in each building that you had to find.  Some were rather creative and difficult to find. 

We're almost there!

Merry Christmas!

Every year the kids draw a name to secretly get a gift for each other.  It's so fun to see them thoughtfully get something they think the other will love. 

We had a lovely Christmas and Christmas breakfast.

Christmas Eve

 We had a lovely Christmas Eve.  We had a lazy morning and then we cooked and decorated cookies for Santa.  It generated (as most things do) into wrestling a couple of times. 

For our family devotional Little Man shared one of his favorite scriptures of Jesus, and then the other 3 combined to give us a dramatic performance of Nutcracker's March.  Little Lady played the piano, BB was the soldier, and Little Guy was the Rat King.  It was hilarious.  

Afterward we opened pajamas and played a game that was from Grandma Stuetz.  

We decided to attend a Christmas Eve service at Country Club Christian Church downtown.  Our friend is the musical director there and the music did not disappoint.  The brass quintet was fabulous.  

They're ready!  One sleep until Christmas!