It's the weekend before Christmas and where do we go, we head to the mountains to see lots of SNOW! On Friday, December 18th Nolan was officially beginning his 2 week Christmas break so we packed up the family truckster (aka minivan) grabbed 2 of 3 boys (Luke got some extra special Grandma & Grandpa time as he got to head to Santa Fe 2 days earlier than the rest of us) and headed to Santa Fe (with an overnight stop in Amarillo). During Luke's alone time with Grandma and Grandpa his wishes came true when not only did he get to SEE lots of trains on the way to Santa Fe he actually got to RIDE a train to Albuquerque! The rest of us arrived in Santa Fe on Saturday afternoon and after a quick stop to the cutest little book store in downtown Santa Fe (and yes, I purchased 3 of the cutest children's books ever!) and a brief exploration of all that downtown Santa Fe has to offer we retreated back to the "casita" for dinner and headed to bed early to rest up for our first big day of skiing! Sunday morning we got up early, got some warm oatmeal in the boys tummy's, got dressed as warm as possible and headed to the slopes. I highly recommend Santa Fe for skiing with kids...the accessibility to their children's ski program made the process of getting all their gear to the mountain so very easy! Nolan and Luke joined ski school and made good progress by the end of day 1. We were all in bed by 8:45pm that night! The next morning we woke up and did it all again. Luke was a little sad that he wasn't going to ski with "his Daddy" so we promised to come get him in the afternoon and take him skiing. Nolan's class got to do practice runs on "Easy Street" and he got to ride a real lift! At the end of the day both Nolan and Luke got to ski several runs with us down the mountain and Nolan was in heaven! Nolan even jumped over a level and when we return he'll be a "black bear"! Growl! What a wonderful trip! Now we're just trying to figure out how we might be able to squeeze in one more trip this season!
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