The Donner Party

No, not that Donner Party--we headed to Donner Lake for 5 days and 4 nights over the Christmas holiday and enjoyed a white Christmas in a cabin overlooking the lake. We were there with family and had a lot of fun walking, sledding, playing in the snow and making cookies for Santa. Although, we think that Jackson ate his weight in "Mimi's sugar cookies" over those 5 days and it was apparent from the shortened naps and late bed-times that the sugar had gone straight to his head. However, Jackson was gracious enough to leave two cookies and a glass of milk for Santa and his reindeer.

Attached are a few pictures and videos from our Donner fun!

Pictures at the Capitol

We had a fun morning at the Capitol back in November when we had our family portraits done. Our photographer, Stephanie who owns Out Loud Photography was amazing and had obviously interacted with toddlers many times before. She kept Jackson entertained, happy and smiling and was able to capture some absolutely adorable and priceless pictures for us. We had so much fun taking these and thought we would share a few of our favorites.

The Protzman's are here

Pete's sister Clare, her husband Casey and their
adorable boy Carter are in town from Alaska so Jackson has thoroughly enjoyed playing with a
little boy around his age.

As Yaya and Bob watched Carter and Jack, the parents escaped for a few hours for drinks and appetizers.