NY: day 5

Sunday. relaxing and savoring the last moments with everyone together

family photos

Skeen

Barber

Spencer

the girls

the moms

the guys

Pit (the photographers were playing Settlers of Cataan)

snapshots

NY: day 4

Saturday. more games. packing. driving. talking.

Samuel and I pretty much made a great team (our YELLOW train spanned the coastline from Miami to San Francisco and up to Vancouver)

New Mexico sunset

Catch Phrase

photographer's favorite

NY: day 3

New Years' Day.

Sarah, Daddy, and I working in the kitchen

*Prime Rib

*steamed broccoli

*sweet potato casserole

*crescent rolls

*ambrosia

a walk-turned snowball fight =)

fun and games:

Monopoly Deal. I am convinced this is the best way to play the classic capitalism game. It takes roughly 10 minutes and it's just as much fun!

Pict-a-phone. 1) write a phrase. 2) pass it to the next person. 3) draw the phrase. 4) pass it to the next person. 5) interpret the drawing and write a phrase. 6) repeat until the phrase has gone around the circle. 7) flip through the pages, seeing how morphed the original phrase became.

wiped out

NY: day 1 and 2

Wednesday. We met the Skeen and Barber families at the airport and headed down to Ruidoso.

Thursday. Some of the guys hit the slopes at Ski Apache while the rest hiked through 10" of snow to the Old Cabin. The ladies stayed at the house, chatted, knitted, prep-ed for dinner, and enjoyed cups of tea.

ORIGIN one of my favorite games!

sparkling cider to ring in 2010