December cheer

Happy holidays.  I'm not sure where the month has gone, but I know we've been doing something?  Josh lost his front tooth, love the toothless grin.  Dan returned from his trip to NZ (I should steal his phone and share the photos here).  I did a crazy giveaway on the Outside Inn's blog, below is the photo we staged for the winner's post.  We started ski season!  Oh the joy.  I'll admit our first day was not the smoothest, but we've since recovered our a-game and got our act a bit more together.   Photos from some sunny and not-so-sunny ski days. We celebrated family togetherness in Tahoe with Miles, Lisa, Peg, Mom, Dieter, Emme and us.  Love the vintage photo from a prior family trip to Tahoe (circa April 1982).  We've spent some time hanging out with Nora and despite what her parents think we're not at all phased by short periods of screaming.  We do feel bad that she gets the hiccups when she's been crying too hard, but nothing was permanent.  On a whole it's been a lovely month... the boys both declared this year's Christmas "the best ever,"  I like the photo of Josh and Dan playing with Josh's new toy, who do you think is more excited?   We enjoyed our walk to the Deer Creek Tribute Trail with David, Pam and Tavish and a meet up with Peg & Mom in the middle of Christmas.  And we're ready to ring in the new year, "only 6 more sleeps till my birthday" exclaims the youngest member of the family.  Merry Christmas.