Latkes and Librations

One big milestone for the blue house - we hosted our first more than just family party here over the break to celebrate Hanukkah! We were a small but festive bunch, and definitely put every menorah in the house to good use.

All snazzed up

While m was definitely the best dressed this holiday

Turns out the rest of us do clean up reasonably well

Skiing

As mentioned yesterday, we had much fun outside. One of the highlights was skiing, of various forms.

We had another round of skate skiing with Olympians (which introduced me to the sport last year). This year Alex and c joined in, but I'm not sure either fell quite as in love with it as I still am... Anyway, the fastest guy on the team was super nice, pulled c most of the way up a hill she managed to ski down on her own, and even signed a card for her:

C also signed an autograph for him - that part was pretty awesome.


Anyway, after seeing the rest of us ski m was more than ready to give it a try. Luckily we had brought hers up with us:

Up and down the driveway worked brilliantly for m, but wasn't quite exciting enough for her sister

So Alex solved that problem

(Turns out it was actually way tamer than it looks. Also way tamer than I assumed when Alex told me the plan with a HUGE grin on his face)

Snow!

One of the greatest parts of being up at the Ranch over Christmas was the ability to get outside. We skied, snowshoed, sledded, and just played. It was awesome :)

And, we're back!

Eyes are getting better, vacation is winding down, time to get back to blogging. Simple post as a warm up, my new favorite on of m - taken Christmas eve:

(in case you're curious about the hair)

We're still here

Happy Almost Holidays everyone!

We're still here and doing fine. I had Lasik at the beginning of the month, and while wonderful, during the recovery time screen time can be pretty painful so I'm limiting it as much as possible (which hasn't served the blog particularly well). According to my doc it should start getting better soon, so my plan is to keep taking pictures in the hope I'll get back to blogging after a couple days off work and off of screens.

In the meanwhile all the best to you and yours, and I wish you all the best for the upcoming new year :o)

We'll be doing a lot of this:

A very special Friday night

C's preK religious school class was featured at shabbat services tonight, and c took it very seriously.

While she might not look like it she really did have a good time, though not quite as good as her little sister who was captivated and more than a little impressed.