A look into our lives

We celebrated the second annual "Thanksmas" party with good friends of ours last weekend - smack-dab in the middle of Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year we had Mexican food so we re-named is "Mas-Gracias". Pretty clever, huh? Here is a picture of Cora and I sharing a delicious sopapilla for dessert. We also had enchiladas, tamales, tortilla soup, homemade tortilla chips and various dips. All of it was actually homemade - and delicious!

Brad, Cora and I went sledding on the Mesa last week because there still hadn't been any snow in town. It was a blustery day and cold, but worth it for the fun of sledding.

Well, with more creatures in the house, there is definitely more cleaning that needs to happen. But there is also more love going around. Take a look:

We got the first snowfall of the season in town this week. It's been snowing almost every day...but also melting in between the storms. We've been getting out as much as we can to play in the snow while it lasts. Cora has really taken to it: this afternoon she looked outside and said "Out-hide(outside)...boots!" and then ran to the closet. A moment later she came back to me wearing her boots and carrying my boots, her hat and a mitten. She plunked my boots down in front of me and started putting on her hat and mitten. It was so amusing to watch her do all this and to realize how much she is really thinking for herself lately. Unfortunately we had to get groceries and couldn't go out to play...maybe tomorrow!