A White Christmas

This Christmas, we traveled to Denver to be with my family.  My entire family was there for Christmas and the few days before.  We had a great time playing pool, opening presents and being together.  My children were a little more laid back about Christmas.  Our family had decided to all meet in the basement on Christmas morning.  Unfortunately, we didn't think it through too well.  The only ones that weren't sleeping in the basement were the teenagers.  They just slept in until Allie and Gabe just couldn't stand it anymore!  We all headed upstairs to open presents around 8:00.  Christmas morning was very exciting with my 3 year old nephew.  He is just beginning to understand the concept of Christmas, there are presents and candy!  He was very cute passing out all of the gifts to everyone in the room.

 But the very best present on Christmas was that we woke up to find 4 inches of snow on the ground.  Being from Southern California, all my kids could talk about before we left for Colorado was the expectation of snow.  Colorado was experiencing one of the driest winters on record and I was a little worried that we wouldn't even see snow the entire time we were there!  But Mother Nature did not disappoint us.  We woke up to a glistening white world outside. We made snow angels, through snow puffs (it was too powdery for snowballs) and went for walks in a glistening winter wonderland.  Did you know that snow really glistens and shines like glitter?  We didn't, and it was exciting to discover.