... and it was a very Merry Christmas!

We had a truly wonderful Christmas break in Taos. The Brandenburgs are fabulous hosts and spoiled us for four days straight with lots of great food (tamales and posole for Christmas Eve is Howard's favourite meal of the year), lots of fun and lots of play. 

Here are a few highlights...

Waiting for Christmas...

Exploring Great-Grandmommy Frances' beads with Grandaddy. 

O! Christmas Tree!

Playing games with Cathy. 

I suspect that Paloma is going to be a video game player too...
[She really enjoyed swinging the controls around and 'walking' off cliffs.]

Tuckered out...
[And sleeping in a big girl bed!]

 A hike near John's Bridge...

Arroyo Hondo, just upstream from John Dunn Bridge - brrrrrrr....

Howard bouldering on John's Wall. 

A quick walk down to the bridge.
[It was 20F and we didn't last long.]

 Christmas Day...

Checking out everyone's stockings
[that magically appeared during the night - thanks Santa!]. 

Hmmm... I wonder which present to open next?

A new beanie for Paloma!

Fascinated by technology...
[Both of them, methinks!]

A new beanie for Howard!

Paloma, hard at work, cleaning up after the morning of gift-giving. 

 After Christmas...

Reading some new books on Christmas night.

Drawing and working through puzzles with Grandmommy.
[A great gift from Bill McHargue - thanks!]

And now...


Howard just left for a few days to go deer-hunting in the Capitan Mountains. Paloma, BITO, Semilla and I plan on celebrating the new year by going to bed early and waking up to a brand new year!

Happy 2012, everybody!