A quick trip to Tahoe...
We were able to squeeze in a quick trip to Tahoe this past week and we had a lot of fun.
We got a two bedroom condo for the week, but only stayed Sunday-Wednesday...we have not vacationed with a little one in a long time!! Packing the baby gear alone was quite the accomplishment! We stayed in South Shore and it was gorgeous. We hoped that there would be snow, but it was still up to high. Oh well, maybe there will be snow in Utah when we go home for Christmas.
We played on the shores of Tahoe, drove into Carson City, Nevada and explored a railroad museum there, hot tubbed on the roof of the condo's over looking Carson Valley, explored Coloma (sight where gold was found in CA) on the way home and stopped at Apple Hill for some of the best apples around (brought home the most heavenly apple and pumpkin cream cheese pies for turkey day) and we stopped at the Natomas Fish Hatchery to watch the salmon climb the ladder. Lots of family time spent together doing things we never do around this awesome place that we live in.
Maya did great but taking an almost one year old who explores everything on vacation was harder than I remember! She walks all over now, so I just chase her all day long. She found that pounding on the glass coffee table in the condo was the most fun, but wondered why she was told "NO!" so much! Needless to say, we cut the trip short a couple days to get her back to the enviorment that she knows and she was so happy to be home.
Thanksgiving was nice, I am 36 and I cooked my first ever turkey this year...lame I know, but hey we have managed to always be the guests until now!!! So dinner was nice, but with my brood of boys? 5 hours plus in the kitchen only to watch my boys clean their plates in 15 minutes!! Taking pictures of the family and meal took longer than dinner did. Atleast Maya took her own sweet time and enjoyed her food...ok it was everywhere but in her mouth, but she enjoyed it--especially the pumkin pie and ice cream. YUMMY!
We have a lot to be thankful for this year, and we are so happy there is a holiday that lets you make the time to remember just how blessed we really are.
Maya is eleven months old...all of the boys did not walk until 13-14 months old. She is a live wire and has started acting like the princess she is. She arches her back and does this fake cry when you take something away that she should not have in the first place. Funny thing is that she stops and looks at you after she does it to see how you'll react. The picture below cracks me up...she has it down that is for sure, now all she needs is her daddy's credit card!
Here she is playing with the Fisher Price Nativity set, she loves it. After trying to decorate a bit for Christmas this week, I am ready to put everything but this toy away and call it good. I can't even imagine what our tree will look like this year with our busy little woman...she loves to rearrange! 
Salmon trying to jump the gate...the ladder was closed that day and there were literally hundreds of fish waiting to climb. Jake thought it was awesome.
Matthew and Maya
