Happy New Year! - how's that for an original post title?

It's been a hectic week, as expected with all the family in town.

Some of the highlights:

Getting up at at 5 am on Christmas Eve to decorate the cookies in my last post.

Getting a trip to Las Vegas and Santa Barbara for Christmas.

Taking a family portrait on Christmas morning. Christmas morning when we got up, it was snowing. Now that's all well and good except we had plans to do a professional family portrait outside as a 70th birthday gift for the parents. After a number of phone calls back and forth, we opted to crash the Hotel Jerome and make the best of it. The staff at the Jerome was extremely accommodating to this group of 13 who just kind of showed up and we got some excellent pictures, inside and out.

11 of us skiing at Snowmass on Christmas day.

Girls' spa day at Remede on Wednesday topped off with lunch at Olives (Harold Ramis was there) while the boys skied Highlands.

Thursday, a trip out to the T Lazy 7 for a sleigh ride, steak bbq and dancing to celebrate the parents' 70th birthdays (one at the end of January and one at the beginning of July) while we were all together. We surprised them with passes to the Food & Wine Classic in June.

Friday, the party started breaking up. Bob & Lisa left for California.

Yesterday, Brian & Miriam left for London. Dinner at Boogie's Diner with two sets of fireworks afterwards. We watched the first set of fireworks from my parent's and Rachel, Ellie and I watched the midnight set from the shower.

The other news is that December 2007 is officially the snowiest December on record. The previous record was held by December 1983 with 117 inches. December 2007 topped that by two inches. Pretty remarkable after the slow start we had.