Christmas

This was the first time in awhile that my whole family was together for the holidays! It was so fun to be able to be with everyone at the same time.

Before Christmas all of us went snowboarding up at Copper. We wanted to get there right when it opened to be able to spend a full day on the mountain. So we left at 6:45 in the morning to get there around 9:00. Unfortunately luck didn't go our way.... It was snowing a ton and they also closed the tunnel for hazardous materials to go through and we were stuck in traffic for literally hours. It sucked. We didn't end up getting on the mountain until 12:45!! It was FREEZING that day too, sooo windy! Luckily because of the cold most people had already gone home which was nice so we didn't have to wait in line at all. Even though it was freezing, we all had a blast and made the most of it. 

 

My poor face was so cold from the wind that I had to take off one of my long sleeved shirts and wrap it around my face in the middle of the day.

My dad bought my mom a puppy for Christmas! He is such a cute little pup so we all had fun playing and cuddling with him, except Bryant. He wasn't so fond of him to start out. It's slowly getting better the bigger he gets but he still doesn't really want anything to do with him.



making some progress the 1st night...



 

Poor Bry just tolerates pretty much everything Cooper does to him!

The rest of the break was spent playing lots and lots of Rook with my grandparents, gifting and receiving great presents, going to movies, boys playing basketball, eating too much good food, working out, watching new shows, and some much needed relaxing. I'm so glad Andrew was able to take off a full 2 1/2 weeks from work. It's always so hard for us to have him go back to traveling after we get such a long break together. Only a few more months of traveling before he starts working from home!!! :) 

Christmas Day with my loves



Aunt Kristen and Uncle Andrew for the win with this present! He loves Mickey Mouse and this microphone sings all 3 of the popular Mickey songs. He was dancing and loving it!

Soooo spoiled by Andrew!! He always gets me the best gifts that I wouldn't buy myself. Another fun fact about Andrew is that he is the worst at holding on to presents until the day of celebration!! He can never wait. So we were at Best Buy looking at TVs and Andrew disappeared for like 10 min but I just kept browsing around not thinking anything of it. Later that night we were driving and he was like do you want to see one of your Christmas presents?! Haha so of course I said sure. And he kept saying no no nevermind I can't! So I just said okay and he was like ok ok you can see it! So he pulled it out from under his seat where he was hiding it. Too funny. So I got my headphones early but I wasn't complaining. They are so much better working out than the Apple headphones that come with the iphone. They also never fall out while running.

We must have been too busy opening presents to have taken any pictures during Christmas presents! This is the only picture I took of Andrew. Andrew's dad got him these copper mugs he wanted and he loves them. Apparently drinks taste better in them than in a normal glass ;)

It was a great holiday spent with family that seemed to go way too fast like usual.