Christmas!!

This year we celebrated Christmas with the Russell clan. They came up to our condo in the mountains in waves due to some crazy work schedules! We had fun hanging out with David, then Lin and Kate joined, then at about midnight on Christmas Eve mom, dad, and Scott joined us.

Due to the late Christmas Eve arrival we knew we could get some skiing in before everyone woke up. We were SO early to the lifts the gondola at Breck wasn't even running yet...brrrrr. We were literally the second non-employees on the lift that morning, but it was worth it!
We skied in some great fresh powder, up to almost are knees at some points!
We figured we needed to stop and document what will probably be the best ski day of the year!
When we arrived back at the condo the crew was just waking, we had some breakfast and moved on to stockings...which were a little larger than normal this year!
Scott trying to reach the bottom of his.
Lindsey with a funny air freshener.
Kate with the mega 80s collection!
Me with a new vase for our place.
Sam with the day's biggest treasure...it sings "grandma got run over by a reindeer"!!!
then it was game time starting with a few darts

then the guys played Farkle or what we have now realized has many many other names and rules
and the girls hit the hot tub and pool
gotta love the Colorado mountains!
our condo
and our new car...still working on a name



We had a wonderful Christmas together only interrupted by a call from Kate on her way back down that she had been in an accident less than 5 miles from her place. Thank goodness she was ok and all other people in the 4 other cars involved were also ok!



Hope you all enjoyed a wonderful one as well!!