December was a great month. We had a great Christmas break celebrating with all of our family. Every year we do Christmas Eve at my dad's house, then Christmas Day it's just us, the 6 of us! This is my favorite time. I LOVE watching the kids come downstairs in anticipation of what they got from Santa. How they are so excited. How our living room becomes complete chaos, how we open everything, get it out and either build or play for the whole day! It's such a great day.
The day after Christmas, this year, we headed to JC to spend Christmas with my WHOLE family. And when I mean WHOLE for my side, it's not big at all, but it's special. We had my aunt and two cousins with their wives in, my grandmother, siblings, mom and stepdad. It was a great, relaxing weekend. My Aunt was very prepared and had a lot of great games to play. We even did an Ugly Christmas Sweater Cookie Decorating Contest. I won..shocking! No, really! But, it was just sooo soo good to be with everyone.
That Sunday, the 6 of us headed out of town to New Mexico. We went Skiing in Angel Fire. It was, hands down, one of our BEST trips. Some of Brent's family met us there too. We rented a condo right across the Ski lifts so it was super easy to walk back and forth. It really helped that we were able to eat breakfast and lunch right there, so conveniently. Opa, Oma, Hinckley family and Johnny and Mary stayed in cabin all together about a mile away from the lifts.
The first day we got there, we went to a pizza joint, that was recommended by a friend, to eat and watch the Aggie game while we waited to get into our condo. That day we really just loaded our kitchen with groceries and walked around Angle Fire checking things out. The next day, we did some sledding at the Golf Club to acclimate to the elevation. We rented our skis and Brent took the big 3 on the snow to show them how to put them on.
By Wednesday we were ready to ski. It worked out nicely that Oma and Johnny didn't ski so they could watch the little littles while we all skied. I went out that morning to help teach the kids how to ski. It was so fun. No one did ski school. They did OPA ski school. We basically taught them how to put ski's on and wedge, then sent them down the bunny slop. After a couple times down the bunny slop, they were ready to go! I am not kidding, they picked it up so fast. Ezra and Michelle's 4 were able to get on and off lifts by themselves. They spend all day out there, only coming to sit for lunch. They were doing greens and 1 or 2 blues by the end of the day. After lunch, Opa, Johnny, Elynn, Emersyn and Michelle's two littles went sledding again for a couple hours. That night, we all had dinner at the cabin and called a night.
Thursday, was a full day of skiing. Elynn even went down some greens with Opa. Emersyn did awesome and was able to get on and off the lift by herself at the end. Ezra and Michelle's 4 spent most of the day at the ski park doing jumps. It was beautiful, awesome weather and everyone had FUN. Everyone skied! SO MUCH FUN! That night the 6 of us, plus Johnny and Mary at dinner on the mountain and watched the torch parade with fireworks.
Before we left, Brent and I were able to go out to a nice restaurant for our Anniversary. Just a great trip. I'm hoping it's one we do every year!
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