Christmas in Telluride

If you went anywhere near a mall this holiday season (or maybe you get the catalog in the mail), you may or may not have noticed the display in the Eddie Bauer stores was Christmas in Telluride. How fitting, I thought to myself, considering we spend Christmas in Telluride every year. And we've been known to shop at EB on occasion.

Our trip out west last week was pretty much straight out of the pages of the Eddie Bauer catalog. I mean, there's really not much more to say about it. We were just living the dream.

Ok, I'm kidding. Except the living the dream part. That really happened.

We had a fabulous time in Telluride. It snowed buttloads. And by snowed buttloads, I mean it DUMPED on us. It was most excellent. We skied knee-deep powder just about every day. In fact, December had a record snowfall for the area. Lucky for us, it wasn't as horridly cold this year as it was last year. My only regret is that the new lift and the terrain it services wasn't open because of the excess snow. I was really looking forward to skiing it this year and that was kind of a letdown. Oh well, there's always next time, I guess.

When we weren't skiing, we had a great time relaxing and enjoying some family time. Christmas Day was, as always, full of lots of presents, laughs and, of course, good food.

The only downside of the trip was that we both missed Indy TERRIBLY. She stayed with Matt's family and it was the longest we'd been away from her. I tried not to be the crazy dog mom, but I really wanted to call every day to check up on her. I resisted and she was fine. In fact, she was spoiled rotten. We are still, a week later, working with her to get her to remember that she sleeps in her bed, not ours. But, at least she was well taken care of!

Coming back turned out to be somewhat of a disaster. We made it eventually, just much, much later than planned and via alternative transportation.

I didn't really take a lot of pictures this time around. And, the ones I did take look just like those from the year before and the year before that. Ah well.

Hope everyone else had a great holiday as well!