| 48 images  2. Matilda says, "Welcome to my cabin!" Emmy & Michael hosted lunch, with Joan's sister Laurie (and son Ian and daughter Melanie, who is expecting in July, and dad-to-be Olvin), and niece/nephew Ben & Debbie Whitmore.  3.  4. At our log cabin for dinner, Thalia looks at the book of photos given to Bill by Eva-Marie Neher, who visited from Goettingen, Germany in June  5. Those are real candles on the tree, in the olde German tradition  7. Dinner over, it's time for the long trek (200 m) back to their cabin   9. A nice snowfall over night  10.  12. The XC skiing was super. Jen broke trail through deep powder the entire trip, and Bill happily followed along. That's Mountain Abbey in the background.  14. Back in Denver, Matilda and Olaf (from Frozen)  15. Thalia negotiates with Matilda for Elsa (or is it Ana?) from Frozen  16. Joan's birthday dinner (Dec 24) at a Cherry Creek restaurant, where we occupied the balcony  17. Happy birthday Mom!  18. Thalia (4) and Clara (6) (Ana & Elsa, Jen thinks)  19. tickle tickle  20.  21. Michael  23.  24.  25. Raise your hand if you like ice cream.  26.  27. Dan bench presses the children  29. There was a little stage near our table at the restaurant, and we danced while singing "Rockin' around the Christmas tree" and "Jingle bell rock"     33. Zach demonstrates (fictively, I think) how one can pee off the deck at Mountain Abbey (their mountain cabin)  34. After dinner we went to the light show at the Botanic Gardens  37.  38.  39.  40. Chiristmas morning brunch was hosted by Jen and Dan  41. Zach and Clara received matching laptops from Nona and Saba (Dan's parents, Sharon & Ben Liptzin)  43.  44. Michael, who first solved Rubic's cube at age 6 or 7, did it again, multiple times, and coached Zach  46.  47. Zippy  48. Opening presents...  50.  51. Zach (9) gets a new book (he has finished all seven Harry Potter books)  52.  54. We hosted Christmas dinner at our house. Here are Michael and Zach (still at it with Rubic), Dan's sister Debbie, and Thalia  55.  56. Robert and David Peterson arrived from Dayton just in time for dinner. They will head out for Mountain Abbey and some skiing (Jen and family will be going to Florida)  57.  58.  59. Joan and Debbie talking (with video) with Katie and Alex Harbison (who are in Seattle)  60. Craft time  61. Thalia in the bouncy castle (sort of)  63. Outtakes for our Christmas card       70. Well, if you've come this far, you may as well see our Christmas card, which we hope to send out by post sometime before mid-January....  71. Sort of sums up the week...  |