Almost White Christmas in El Paso

It felt like the Christmas season when we woke up Saturday to snow in El Paso.  We went to Katrina and Joey's house that morning for breakfast.  They hosted a big crew including the Gaspar de Albas, Whettens, and Matt's mom and brother Ryan.  While finishing the preparations for breakfast the kids had a snowball fight in the backyard.

After a yummy breakfast of crepes and huevos rancheros, the kids kept entertained making graham cracker gingerbread houses.  They enjoyed sampling all the candies as they worked.

 

Christmas eve the kids opened pajama's and books at GrandMindy's house.  Christmas day landed on Sunday.  GraMindy had church a little bit later, so the kids opened presents first.

We took some pictures after church.  Then it was off to go eat lunch and exchange gifts at my parent's house and up to Las Cruces to visit with Grandpa Caldwell and Janet in the afternoon.

On December 27h these three cousins all lost a tooth on the same day.  It was Natalia's first tooth lost.

They discovered that they could get a better deal selling their teeth to Grandpa than from the Tooth Fairy.  Kylee and Natalia both collected $5 from Grandpa.

We decided to entertain the kids by taking them ice skating with Cynthia and Katrina's families on December 28.

Ben and Erin were able to stop in for a short visit.

We ended our week by visiting Kristina at work at Menchie's yogurt shop.