My Christmas present early....

Well, Matt told me yesterday that he had an idea for a Christmas present for me (and the boys) and he wanted to tell me so I could start getting ready for it. He told me that I have a few thousand dollars to spend on going to Colorado or New Mexico or somewhere so the boys could see some snow! ;-)



So... after looking everything up and comparing prices and places that were available, we decided to go to Ruidoso, New Mexico. We'll be leaving around 1 in the morning on Christmas Eve/ early Christmas morning and we'll get there around 3 or so Christmas day. I'm a little upset about being gone from the house on Christmas, but we'll work it out somehow with presents (I figured we'll either let the boys open the gifts from us early, and then have 'Santa' come while we're gone, or we'll just tell them that Christmas Eve is actually Christmas DAY, and Santa can come a night early in our house (we have a lot of Christmas countdown things in the house so it won't be hard for me to change it or anything!!!) What do ya'll think??



Anyway, here is the cabin that we are staying at:





The deck:


The Living Room:


The View:


I'm really excited though!! I'm REALLY hoping that the girl that babysits for us, Elizabeth, decides to go with us. As far as we can tell at this resort, they do not have a child care for younger kids (they have a Ski School called the "Kiddie Korral" for Kelton and Jace, and Daylon is old enough to go to Ski School with me and Matt. (I've been skiing before, but it was when I was 15 so it's been a LONG time- and I wasn't that great at it at the time either!)

Now it's just off to get some boots, sunglasses, etc. although my MIL tells me that we should just wait for most of that stuff until we get to New Mexico and get it all at Wal Mart and it's a lot cheaper (however, since we'll be going on Christmas DAY, Wal Mart will probably be closed!!!)