Santa Claus Has Come to Town!

Christmas Day 2011

Colin woke up this morning and didn't remember it was Christmas right away. He layed in his bed chatting to us across the room in our bed for a bit. Then he asked me to turn on The Polar Express movie for him and I told him to wait a couple minutes so that maybe he would remember it was Christmas. A few more minutes went by before he looked over at the desk and realized that the cookies for Santa were half eaten. He sat up in bed and said "Hey Santa didn't finish the cookies!" Then it was like the lightbulb went off in his head and you could see it just clicked and he said "Santa came, Santa came!" Then he flew to the end of his bed to peek over the edge by the tree and see what Santa brought him. He was so cute opening all his stuff and he was delighted to see Santa fulfilled his request for race cars and fighter jets.
After opening gifts we went down to breakfast and then suited up to head over to the ski slopes for some sledding. We've had some warmer temps and a little rain/snow mix the last couple of days, so the 16" of snow we got our first day here had dwindled down to just a thin layer outside. It looked like the ski lodge had blown some snow last night though so we got some good sled runs in. After sledding we headed back to the hotel and ate lunch, and hung around. Colin played with his new toys, rested some and then we hit the pool. It's funny to be suited up for sledding and snow play and then a few hours later walking around the hotel in a bathing suit and swimming in the pool. Frohe Weihnachten!