Christmas Without Pictures

One of the joys and the challenges of being "outnumbered" parents is that your hands are always full! :) We have had a wonderful winter, filled with family and snow and playing outdoors, adventures, good food, and sweet moments with our little girls. But you know what? I have no pictures. None. In those precious Kodak moments, Erik and I just shrug at each other. The camera is deeply buried, and our hands are filled with fun, busy, playing, laughing, sometimes screaming little girls. :)

So... here are the highlights of our holiday season, with no photos to display alongside the words.

• Michelle arrived the 23rd, and we spent the night at Teton Science School, where Erik's extended family had overtaken the guest lodging and dining facilities. We decorated a tree in the main lodge and played cards with uncles, aunts and cousins I had previously only met at weddings.
  
• A ski/snowmobile trip to Granite Hot Springs on Christmas Eve. A beautiful candlelit church service, then staying up late and watching the Nativity story while our Poteca bread was baking.
• Christmas morning at home. We were thankful to have the opportunity for a quieter morning with our little ones and my sister and then spend the rest of the day with the larger Wachob/Hanks crowd. Sweet Raina opened one gift and then slept through the rest of her presents. :) I laughed. Is she the neglected third child, or what?
• Christmas Day ski and snowshoe, an elk refuge sleigh ride, lots of Christmas cookies, and endless cups of Becky's homemade cocoa
• more time with Michelle, including a ski up Death Canyon trail. We didn't make it very far. :)
• time with friends Dan and Beth, and their baby Abby
  
• My mom arrived New Year's Eve, and we had a wonderful week with her - ice skating, more skiing, Thai food, and low-key days at home
• friends from CO for Erik's birthday and another big ski to the hot springs
  

Now, it's back to normal. Maybe now I'll have time to take pictures! :)