evan, lindsay, nina, elena and esther

Come on people, it's Crapo, not Crappo! Micaela, Ammon, Addy, Idgy, and Lucy, the dear Crapo family. And Christian came too it was bomb! This was my first time visiting the the family at their new[er] home in Colorado. Evan had beat me to it last year while I was in Ethiopia. I can't believe my boyfriend [at the time] got to go to my family's new home before me!! I guess it shows that Evan was meant to be a part of the family.

It was so much fun! Addy is an adorable little muffin of love and she quickly grew comfortable around us unfamiliar people. One of her only words is no and it was so rediculously cute that I actually wanted to hear her say it. It was the first restful trip in a loooong time. our schedule was like this: Eat. Play settlers of katan. Take a nap. Use the facilities. Eat. Listen to the Magician's Nephew on disc. Eat. Eat while playing killer bunnies. watch a movie while eating. I think we left the house 4 times including the trip to the airport with our luggage. It was great! By about the Thursday or Friday I felt like I should move my limbs so I found an exercise channel and that lasted about 4 minutes. It was very fulfilling.

This was Evan and I's first Christmas together!! It was so great to spend Christmas with family loved ones after last year being in a faraway place. Even if the fireplace was actually a plasma screen [note in picture]