Holiday Happenings - Part 4

We left a day early and got to Denver a day later than planned, but we made it on December 23rd!  We were wise in waiting out the storm as Denver was hit with around 12 inches of snow and closed most of the city on the 22nd.  The sun, snowplows and other drivers cleared our path and we only found wet roads once inside the city limits.  Ari was beyond excited to find mounds of snow in my parent's neighborhood, but had to wait until the next day to get out and play in it as the sun was setting upon our arrival.

As soon as it warmed up a bit, we all bundled up to soak in the winter wonderland.  It did not disappoint.  Snowballs, sledding and digging to everyone's content.

That afternoon we had our extended family over for a Hanukkah feast and Asher had his first latkes. You can't tell from the pictures, but he really liked them.

And, of course, there were presents.  Keira and I even made a special delivery to my sister's dog, Jake.  Oh, and I got a new camera!  Hopefully no more apologies for poor pictures.

Mostly we just spent time with my family, hanging out at the house and playing with our new toys and in the snow.  My parents did take Ari and Keira to the children's museum one day, but no other big adventures.

For our return trip, we stopped in Booker, TX to visit an old friend of Keenan's.  It was almost exactly half-way from Denver to our house.  Their family also has 3 kids about the same ages as ours.  There was a lot of running laps around the house and Ari enjoyed all the toy guns.

After 10 days and almost 1800 miles, we made it home.  Asher did much better this time around with the exception of the last day in the car.  After all that, we spent a quiet New Year's Eve at home and have been catching up on sleep the rest of the weekend.

We hope your holidays were just as happy and we wish you blessings for this new year!