I arrived in Colorado in time for a women's club luncheon, which I attended with my mom. For the entertainment, a ballet troupe was there to perform highlights from The Nutcracker. After my mom's church service, we posed with Santa Claus.
As the grandchildren arrived, we made gingerbread (graham cracker) houses and the little girls
decorated them (and ate a lot along the way).
We enjoyed a very nice snowfall, which lasted us through the holidays. It was a white, but sunny, fairly warm Christmas. We went on walks, caroled and played piano duets, built snow forts, sledded, had a birthday party (for 17 year old Barrett), read stories, played games, did puzzles, played catch and did lots of indoor playing and talking and baking and laughing. David worked on some Ambigrams (words that read the same upside down) of family names. So cool! For Stephanie, one of my "Greek" nieces, he made her name read Stephanie one way and upside down, it also read her name, but in GREEK!
We talked with Ryan (AKA Elder Carlson) on Skype. We were able to capture a family photo of sorts with him. Fun!!!
As I flew home, I happened to have a window seat on the correct side of the plane and we happened to have the flying route of going directly over the city. I was able to capture some photos of my neighborhood. Look for the park (square greenish area on the upper side of the Danube). It's near a large white building surrounded by greenery. That square park is where our apartment is - just on the left side. How fun to have that view coming home!
Our holidays were fabulous And now we begin a journey for a fabulous year of 2012.
