Santa

Almost forgot this great photo. Santa visited the Christmas fair at Sophie & Levi's school the weekend before Thanksgiving...guess he's on top of things this year. Guess who wanted nothing to do with him? Give up? Sophie took quite a bit of convincing and on the second attempt after she'd had some time to think about it we finally got this cute picture. I think Chuck told her that Santa needed to know what she looked like so he'd know who to give her presents to although as I'm writing this it seems a bit of a weak argument so either I've got it wrong or he's more convincing than I am. She sat for the picture but refused to talk to him. At least she smiled this time.

The Christmas Tree

For reasons I can't really excuse or explain we decided to embrace the Rocky Mountains and get a Lodgepole Pine as our Christmas Tree this year. It's not quite as full as some of the other more traditional trees but it does have pinecones still attached and I can say that so far...none of its needles are on my floor. We decorated it yesterday...here's a look.

The Wind Storm

Some of you have been asking about the big wind storm we got recently. It did sound like the roof was going to fly off the house but I'm happy to report no such thing happened. The worst damage we had was to our fence which Chuck worked hard at fixing yesterday. The posts are setting up in the cement he poured yesterday and soon the whole thing will be a distant memory with only these pictures to remember it by. Although he will probably never read this a special thanks to our new neighbor, Joe for being so helpful in facilitating this repair. Perhaps he was tired of the kids being so interested in his backyard activities when he stepped out his backdoor..."Hi Joe"..."I've got a dinosaur Joe"..."Is that your dog Joe?" (Time to help the Dorvals fix the fence!)

Catch Up Time

Ok, so things have been busy but you wouldn't know it to read our blog. Let me try to catch you up to speed. We spent a week this summer in Maine. Part 1

Maine, Week 1

Part 2

Summer 2011, part 2

...Halloween activities...

Halloween

...did some post-ski-hot-tubbin'...

And that brings us to Christmas...stay tuned!