Holiday Festivities

 

Holiday fun at the tree lot

Disneyland in December

  Our little angel at her Christmas Pageant

 

  Christmas time at Fashion Island with Mimi

 

 Natasha's first dance performance

 

She did great!

 



 Annabelle and Natasha

 

 Newport Boat Parade

 

 Hard to see, but Natasha is on a little boat

attached to the big boat we were on.

 

As always, it was a busy December.  And this was all before Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  The kids love the Christmas season.  They loved picking out our first real tree and decorating the house with all our decorations.  Besides getting presents for Christmas, I think their all time favorite thing was our nightly walks in our neighborhood and seeing everyone's lights and decorations.  It took a good month after the holiday season for Nikolaus to realize he had to wait a long time to see "ho ho" (Santa) again.  Based on this post date... less than 5 months to go.        

Snow Days

 Bundled up and ready to play

 

 

"Don't let me go, dad."

 

 Watch out for Danger Monkey!

 

Loved throwing snowballs for the dogs

 

 Cousins!!

 We rarely get a picture of just the two of us.

 

Family fun in the snow 

Snow bunny, Evvie 

Stomping in the snow 

 "Again, dad!"

 

 Ready for the slopes and ski lessons

 

 Abby helping Natasha

 

 Nikolaus just wanted us to help him...

not exactly what he had in mind for his 2nd birthday.

 

Natasha is loving it!

Just observing

 

 Natasha loved it!

 



This was more Nik's speed. 

Second day was a big success... for both kids! 

 Nikolaus practicing on the carpet...

Is he not the cutest little thing ever!

 

 Loved taking the magic carpet up the hill

 

Good form, Nik! 

Can't wait to go back and see if both kids still like it!

 



Turkey Day in Colorado

 The Larson cousins are ready to fly

 

 Natasha keeping herself occupied on the flight

 

 Uncle Matt, Evvie and Zac

 

 Doggies in the snow

 

The Larson boys matching in stripes and heading to the mountain 

 Grandma with her grandkids and granddog

(gotta love matching pj's)

 

Trying to get a Christmas card photo 

 Kids and technology

 

Natasha and her creation (a giraffe)

 

 Evvie is ready to hit the slopes

 

 It's not Thanksgiving without pumpkin martinis

 

Grandma and Tasha 

 Silly cousins

 

 

 These two silly monkeys

 

 Too cute!

 

 

This little girl is sure lucky that we flew privately,

because this little dog would have been left

at the airport otherwise.

 

Another great Thanksgiving was spent in Steamboat with the Link/Larson family.  Bill and Marsha are so wonderful to open up their home to us during the turkey day holiday weekend. We always feel at home and welcomed and are spoiled with so much delicious food, fun in the snow, and wonderful company.  We celebrated Nikolaus' 2nd birthday with a day on the mountain and he got up on skies for the first time!  Unfortunately, Nikolaus did catch a stomach bug the day before we were going to head back home. It didn't last long, however it moved through our family once we returned home.  Other than that it was another memorable holiday!  More ski pictures to come in the next post.