When Emma grows up....

Erin:  Emma, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Emma:  I just want to ski WITH poles.

Wild and Crazy Friday nights

Once Upon a SNOWDOWN!

Getting in the Fairy Tale spirit

Before the light parade

"Once Upon a Purgatory"

Snow Queen and Snow Flake

Lunchpie skis in jeans....

The Scheid's Exotic Chickens

Our friends, Nancy and Steve, are building a house on a piece of land that is large enough for a coup and a couple of egg-layers. We had to go and check it out!

June and Lunchpie - "sharing" the stroller

Christmas Day Skiing

After we finished opening presents and ate a "real breakfast" as Aaron calls it...we headed up to Purgatory to take a few runs.  Skiing on Christmas Day is great because it isn't a super busy day...right before the holiday masses arrive in town.  This was the first day that Aaron skied with Hannah in the backpack and she LOVED it!   I wish I could have gotten a picture of her facial expression when we loaded the lift the first time.  She even fell asleep in the backpack on the second run.

Hannah skiing the gnar with dummy

Skiing with our friends, Brad and Sarah

Emma & Erin

Now - I will admit that I turn into "agro-mom" when I ski with Emma.  I think part of it is because of my job and I am exposed to many of the knuckle-heads that create issues on the mountain.  So needless to say, I totally give anyone that gets within a 50 yard radius of Emma the evil eye...and I'm always worried about her getting hit by someone.  So the video I posted below is funny...because really I probably pose more of a danger to Emma than anyone else!  It's short - and what it doesn't show is that while I was getting the camera ready...I totally ran into Emma while going through one of the "features" of Animas City.  Ooops!

Christmas

Finally, I have gotten our Christmas morning pictures on the blog.  This Christmas was especially fun because Hannah kinda had an idea of what was going on...Although, she did need to take a break to eat a banana (this child LOVES bananas) and didn't finish opening all of her gifts that morning.  And Emma, of course, had a great time!  Our kids (and us, too) are super spoiled!  However, we really enjoyed spending the day together the most.

Excited sisters

Emma's remote control car - that harasses the pet

Diggin' in

Go Bears!

And you thought we didn't like our dog :)

Snow White Dress-up!

Naked Lunchpie

Hannah showing off her accessories