Christmas in Colorado: December 2017

Monday, January 8, 2018

While the midwest (and east coast) was facing record-low temperatures, we escaped to Colorado for Christmas week where it was unseasonably warm. Mimi and Papa had been without snow until a few days before we arrived, and then after we landed on Christmas Eve, some more snow fell into Christmas morning, at least allowing us to do a bit of sledding and snowman building.

There wasn’t enough snow to go skiing, but we made do, having lots of fun around the house making “bath bombs” and soap, snow ice cream, buttermilk pie, and playing with all the new toys and games (lots of fun new card games!) the kids got for Christmas. We went to Paonia one day to visit Papa at work and have lunch; we drove to Grand Junction to have a fun “kids day” (trampoline park, McDonalds playground, and Chuck e Cheese) at to Ouray for the Hot Springs.

We had a lot of good fun with Mimi, Papa and Uncle Patrick and can’t wait to do it again soon!

(Note: Dad also fixed some things on this website over the break, which in turn caused some other things to break. So, we’re trying a new way of sharing/embedding the Smugmug pictures and videos in the blog post. You can always go to the SmugMug gallery to view or download all of the pictures and video or order prints directly from SmugMug if the photos below aren’t working well for you