Colorado Christmas - Part 1

For Christmas this year Dan and I got a new camera. We love it! We love it so much that in a 2-day trip to the mountains we took about 800 pictures so be warned this is going to be long.

We celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve this year and drove into the mountains on Christmas day. We stayed in a cabin for 3 days and 2 nights. I (Kari) was a little worried about our "rustic" cabin, but it was a lot of fun. Parker loved playing in the snow and being with family.




This is the view from the cabin...day and night. Pretty sweet, eh?!



The 2nd day Dan and I went cross-country skiing together. Dan had a pretty sweet fall while skiing down a hill.



For Dan and his brothers the cabin trip was an opportunity to relive their Boy Scout days. They used to come up to that same cabin when they were growing up. So of course there was a lot of building...ski jumps, sledding hills, forts for the kids.



Oh wait! Let's go back to Christmas now. Here is Parker and Dan opening some presents.


The kids got to open 1 present on Christmas Eve.

We tried to get Parker to play Joseph during the reading of the Christmas story on Christmas Eve, but the costume stayed on for about 10 seconds and that was after several attempts to get it on. Don't let this happy face fool you.

Parker is lucky to have a cousin only 2 months older than him. They were so cute together.

The kids loved going to the park down the road from Grandpa and Grandma's house.