christmas in colorado 2014.

This was my first white Christmas and it was sure magical.  This California girl is totally ok with snow on Christmas Morning, but that's it.  Mike's sister Heather and her family live in Colorado and have a condo in Winter Park, a ski resort and we were able to snag a condo in the same complex as them!  We all arrived on Christmas Eve and had a lovely Christmas Eve dinner of the most delicious tacos!  (I could even eat them, even with my morning (all day) sickness in full swing!)  Christmas morning we had a family breakfast at the other condo and opened presents.  Holidays just keep getting better and better now that Finnegan is getting older and figuring things out.  He loved opening presents and it was so fun for us to watch him open them!  Late morning most everyone went to the resort to go ski.  Some of us ladies cooked a Christmas dinner of Parma Chicken to be shared by everyone that night.  I love holidays!  I love being with family!  And I'm happy to have married into a family that I love being with.
Oh, and Finn in his snow clothes... the. best. thing. ever!

 {give the boy his "show" and he's good!  He was such a good road trip buddy.}

 {crazy hair.  cheese.}

 {twins.}

 {christmas eve dinner.  grandpa shared a wonderful spiritual thought with us this night also.}

{christmas morning.  finn and his cousins.}

 {...so you always remember us chris.}

 {that steve is so cool.  i hear it's like he never lost it!}

 {snow beard.}

 {traditional 'twas the night before christmas reading.}

{the view out of our condo was unreal.}

 {damn it, it's all about family.}

{this photo is only hilarious if you know the story.  we stopped at a mcdonalds on our way home to let finn play in the play area and get his wiggles out.  well, he figured out how to climb up the tube, but then got stuck and couldn't get down.  so, me and my pregnant body climbed in those small winding tubes to save the day.  it was embarrassing, but pretty funny.}