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Elise’s school had a graduation for all of the kids on Friday. I guess she is all grown up now. Nonetheless, we are quite proud of our graduate.

Lily insisted on a low-key birthday this year. She wanted a quite night to reflect on her first year and to enjoy her cupcake.

Here is a short video I cobbled together in iMovie using some video and photos I shot during our Mammoth trip.

The girls and I drove down to Mammoth to meet up with my family for a week of skiing. We got there the first sunny day after a solid week of snowing. We managed to have some great weather and snow conditions during the whole week.

Elise enrolled in Ski School with her friends Chloe and Kayla. She was a little hesitant at first but managed to have a really great time. At the end of the day she said that she wanted to stop going to preschool and start going to ski school fulltime.

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. Here is a video of Elise’s Christmas show that the kids performed at her school. This was her big theater debut and she got the starring role as Mary. She did an amazing job and we are very proud of her.

Here is a short (and rough and unedited) video of Lily laughing. My new hobby has been trying to figure out ways to make her laugh. I have been having some good success with this trick: shake her toy and then throw it next to her.

We made our annual journey to the East Bay for Thanksgiving with the JPs again this year. The JPs went overboard again with providing an amazing meal. We had a huge turkey AND a grilled beef tenderloin with all of the trimmings.