Merry Christmas {2012}!

. . Merry Christmas! . .

I hope you're having a warm and cozy day with family & friends on this, the most exciting of days...the birth of our Lord and Savior!

I wanted to greet you this morning with a couple photos {ok, maybe more than a couple}:

. just a few around our home .

I'll be sad to take it all down next week

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Because Ben & I were depressed that we didn't have any family in town for the holidays, we decided to take our family to Breckenridge and stay at our sweet friends home while they were out of town.

We had THE most fantastic time!! Thanks again, Melissa & Carl! We love you two!

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Yesterday we found a fun sled park

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Christmas Eve {& Christmas Day}, we went skiing.

Well...Ben, Ezekiel, & Anton did.

Imani was reeeeeeeeeeeallly grumpy so Laith & I tried to entertain her.

I wanted to get Laith a treat for being SUCH an amazing little buddy all day. He was the sunshine on an otherwise {{really}} rough day.

So we stopped for hot chocolate.

The guy behind the counter must have been able to tell it was a ROUGH day...suddenly I had a free cup of hot chocolate complete with baileys & peppermint schnapps.

I wanted to hug him.

He also gave Laith a free pretzel.

I decided he was my best friend.

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After skiing on Christmas Eve, we made it home just in time for quick showers and heading back out into a thick blanket of snow for the service at a church down the road.