A Traditional Christmas

We started out having the husbands parents over for Christmas Eve dinner and later, as we used to do in the past when our boys were little, we went and looked at the Christmas lights around the valley.

Some people really put in the effort and go all out. It's quite impressive actually.

On Christmas morning the husband and I stuck with our family tradition of skiing on Christmas day even though it was just the two of us this year.

The mountain had dumped a lot of snow in the past couple of days and with the sun shining it made for a perfect day of skiing.

Then out of the blue, we saw Santa snowboarding down the hill. I guess after a big night of traveling around the world giving out gifts he decided to take some time and enjoy himself haha.

He was kind enough to let me snap a picture of him.

Knowing our grandsons would get a kick out of this, I sent them the picture. One of them said, 'Wait grandma, you saw Santa skiing?'

This was my first ski day of the season, which really just opened last week.

 In years past they've been open over Thanksgiving weekend but the snow has been slow to show itself this year. 

It was nice to have a relaxing day without trying to keep up with the kids haha. Our sons grew up skiing and it can be a bit challenging for this ol mama to hang with them on the slopes.

We truly had a wonderful Christmas and it's nice that traditions can still be alive and well even when the family dynamics change.