A White Denver Christmas

We decided to drive out a day early and surprise the Ipsons. We are glad we did because the night we arrived we got a foot of snow.

All that snow meant we got to shovel the snow and then we went sledding at Eaglecrest. Good thing we had Kattie's Suburban that we could all cram into. It was a pretty good hill and we all had a lot of fun. Our sledding trains were less than successful and there were several crashes.

Camberly helped Jerolyn make little flannel nightgowns for the twins so they would match the rest of the pjs. It was a challenge because we didn't have a pattern, so we had to make it up as we went along. Some of the other pjs needed a little work too.

Can anyone say awkward family Christmas picture?



Christmas Eve was full of the typical baking fest. Lots of cookies and treats and of course all the stuff for dinner. Kattie and I fulfilled Mom's dreams by playing the viola and violin together.

It made for a different Christmas morning to get up and head to 9am church. Afterwards we worked together to make our traditional Christmas breakfast/brunch. Finally we did the present thing and had lots of fun surprises.

It was a fun time with everyone all together--bowling, playing round robin ping pong, doing Wii Just Dance, playing Stack, sewing baby blankets for church humanitarian aid, and just hanging out.


We got to celebrate Anna and Millie's 1st birthday. It was fun to watch them chowing down on their cakes. Will certainly liked the heavy heavy hangover part of the gifts.

Sylvester and Sadie had a good time too. Sylvester quickly learned where to hangout during meals. The girls on their seats were just the right height for him and the food that fell off the trays were great treats. The kids all did great with the dogs as well. Will was a little timid at first but he would do sneak attacks to pet them both when they weren't paying attention. Millie didn't seem to care at all when Sylvester would get close and would just push him away if it was too much.

Sadie, ever the timid one, just tried to avoid most of the madness. She learned that Trenton was the calm one to hang out by.



By the end of each day Sadie and Sylvester were both exhausted from being on high alert around the kids and missing out on their typical all day naps.