Round 2: Christmas in the Mountains

The day after Christmas we all headed up to the beautiful mountains to enjoy the snow, mountains, and spending time together.

Dad and mom found us a wonderful place that fit 5 families splendidly! I might have been a bit skeptical at first, but it worked out great. Awesome job dad and mom!

Addy and Ethan enjoying Uncle Jack playing his guitar:

Such good times!

The Beautiful barista

Uncle Jack with sweet, sweet Norah

Ethan and Addy were hard at work

(the place we stayed at came with it's very own kid's play room!)

Crazy hair Norah :-)

Paps and Ethan in play room:

Adam hasn't wasted any time introducing Ethan to a pipe!

Can't say I'm thrilled, but I'm not freaking out about it either. ;-)

My little mountain beauty enjoying the scenery:

Oh yeah! Nothing like enjoying a smoke in the mountains! :-)

Don't they look cool?

Kids with Paps enjoying the sand hill out front:

More work:

Ellie all bundled up with her mommy:

Determined Emma on a short hike:

Grusy Fam:

Cousins bathing together!

Ellie's sentiment: "this is way too scary, get me out of here!" :-)

Happy little Trav and Adam:

Ethan giving a teaching lesson to anyone who will listen:

Art time:

Emma wanted to be a part of all the action.

She is very much wanting to be involved in everything these days,

especially whatever she sees the "big kids" doing:

Ethan checking out Adam's get-up for snowboarding:

Snowboarder in the making ;-)

Loving the Goggles:

The guys went up for a ski/snow boarding day:

Oh yeah! It just doesn't get much better than those Colorado mountains!

Oh how I miss em'!

Sorry Louisville, but you just can't compete! :-)

What a cool looking group...

Shelley and I brought Addy and Ethan for the lunch break so they could check it all out.

They got a fun ride on Adam's snowboard:

I absolutely love this one!!

And this one too:

Sledding Outing:

Ems loved it, until she got to cold.

"Whee, this is so fun!"

And this would be when Ems decided she had had enough :-)

... So I brought her back to the car, which, as you can tell, she was quite happy with! :-)

Cute Ells all bundled up:

Making and eating sugar cookies:

The Burger King Chef showing off his cookie creations:

Dad changed Ellie and put anything on her that was within arm's reach, which ended up being Ethan's jammies. A little big?...

Paps and Grams telling a Bible story with flannel graph.

Ethan and Addy loved it!

Thanks dad and mom for such a wonderful mountain retreat! What a great idea! We had so much fun!

One more set of Christmas pics to come...

Stay tuned...