Post-Christmas in Utah

So, we've finally made it to the final installment of the holiday series.  Christmas Day we loaded up what looked like our entire house into the car, and drove to Utah to spend 5 days with Jeff's family.  It was wonderful to see the entire family together, Rich's sister Barb even came to enjoy the craziness!  As you'll see from the pictures, there was a lot of outside time and a lot of jammy wearing-that combo makes for a perfect vacation!

Heading up the chair lift!

No trip to Utah would be complete without visiting the chickens!

The kids loved the Christmas Village in Ogden!

He's thinking about it...

Now that's a view!  Ogden is fogged in below, with just the mtn tops peeking out.

While Jeff and I enjoyed a ski day, the kids visited Antelope Island which was covered in frost-beautiful!

with cutie Iris

family photo

the girls

Stocking time!

Such concentration.

Christmas at Home

Despite all the travel, we did spend Christmas itself at home.  Leading up to the holiday, we did all the usual things to get into the spirit and Christmas Eve we had a great meal with the Berg family.

Searching for a tree, hot wearing only light jackets!

Watering the tree sure is exciting!

Mmmm, cookies with green frosting...

Nora loved making her first gingerbread house!

 Santa arrived one evening on our street via fire truck!  All the neighboring kids loved it of course.

Nora's Holiday Program at school.  Complete with songs in Spanish, Farsi and English about Christmas and Hanukkah-they covered the bases!  Nora was certainly the most vocal of her classmates :)

Christmas Eve

Nora with the ornament she made for us at school

Nora took a surprisingly good photo

Putting cookies, milk and carrots out for the nighttime visitors

Christmas morning

Overwhelmed

It was a great morning, then we left town (more to come on that soon).