Christmas in Colorado 2014-The North Pole

We flew in to Denver for our Christmas time visit this year and spent our first day at our friends' Megan and John's house. They just moved to Denver from Minnesota last summer. It was fun to reconnect with old friends.

It was a long day of travel and a full day of play. Steve's nephew Ryan dropped his truck off at our friends' house for us to drive to Colorado Springs and this is how the kids fell asleep in the backseat on the ride home!

The next day we went to the North Pole with Aunt Becky.

I am starting to see a theme here...

Buddy Gets Glasses

Steve noticed that Buddy was having a hard time seeing things and reading things that were far away, so we took him to get his eyes examined. Yup, he needs glasses. Turns out he is near sighted.

 We tried a bunch on.

 What a good looking kiddo!

Downhill Skiing

The kids and I and some friends took ski lessons at Wild Mountain. Steve wants them to ski when we are in Colorado, so I thought it would make sense to try it out first on a smaller scale.

We've got our gear and are ready to go. The weather was perfect this day and since the kids had no school, we went on a week day when there was hardly anyone there. It was great.

We are organizing our basement and getting rid of some bulky outdated furniture.

When we pulled out the empty entertainment center to move it, the kids used it to present their own tv show.

Thanksgiving

We celebrated at our house for the first time ever (it was also my first time every making a turkey).

We also celebrated Buddy's birthday.

 We exchanged gifts early with the cousins this year since we won't see them over Christmas this year. Lulu loves her first Friends Legos set.

Buddy is a Legos veteran.

We spent the rest of the weekend at the cabin. Buddy made his robotic arm there. It is really cool!

 And Lulu read the entire book over the weekend that she got from the cousins.

Steve did work on the closet in the basement bedroom.

More Legos.

Cute girl!