the santoro life

Our family spent Thanksgiving in Denver this year. We cooked a full meal and of course two pumpkin pies. Everything was delish and everyone was in a food coma by about 7pm. We got a decent amount of snow on Thursday so we went sledding on Friday and then skied at Loveland on Saturday. We signed Finn and Sophia up for all-day ski school. Lots of tears, defiance and about a million dollars later they were all set up in their classes and Emmett was checked into the daycare and we actually got to ski for a few hours! It was so fun. I am so happy to not be snowboarding anymore :) Today is a lazy day with about a hundred loads of laundry to do. I'm going to the Broncos game tonight for work where we're attempting to set the Guinness World Record for most fake mustaches worn for men's health awareness (we ordered 80,000 orange mustaches). Never a dull day on the job. My helpers for the carrots Not so helpful but entertaining. Ready for some dinner!! Not happy abo...

We had a nice, low key weekend. We went to dinner with new friends on Saturday night - they live around the corner and have Sofia who is 5 and Oscar who is 2.5. The kids love hanging with them and their parents are nice and normal which is good for me and Noah. Other than that we hit up the park and the kids all recovered from colds.   This picture seriously cracks me up. In his new beanie, reading Junie B. Jones in bed. He's a reading machine right now and we just got an email from his teacher telling us that he's ahead of where he should be and how proud we should be of him. Go Finnster. Sophia and Sofia. They played together all day on Saturday, we went to dinner with them on Sat night and they were begging for a sleepover.  At the park this weekend - 65 degrees. And 5 inches of snow today. Finn left Slush at the farm - Papa mailed him back and they were finally reunited! Midway through getting out the door before school today. Takes a solid 15 mi...

We had snow this week! Woke up on Wednesday to a few inches. The kids were so excited. It only took us about 45 minutes to get dressed in snow gear and out the door. Good lord it's a lot of work. Emmett is still not too sure - he won't put his feet down on the snow. 

We finally made it to the flagship REI store and besides having a Subaru and a dog, I think that counts you as an official Coloradoan. The store is enormous, has a huge climbing wall, and indoor play area for kids and every kind of gear you could possibly need for outdoors. We got Finn and Sophia all set up with warm gear, skis and boots. Our goal is to go as much as possible and maybe even get Emmett up on skis. On the third floor of the store. 

Time for school pictures and we got another winner! Finn actually enjoys taking school pictures now - oh how far we've come. He's lost two teeth in the past month, just read three chapters in bed by himself and made chicken picatta in his after-school cooking class. Time needs to slooooowww down.

We had an awesome Halloween this year. We went to a neighborhood party and trick or treated around our house. Then back to our neighbors for a bonfire, some cocktails and lots of candy. We started the day on Saturday getting the kids ski gear for the season. Sophia wore her costume for 48 hours straight.  Daddy Flash with his munchkins. Sophia called him Flash all night. She was so proud of him. Super girls!  All the kiddos. A picture of all three of our kids dressed up and smiling. A Halloween miracle. It was a loooong day today with the time change and the sugar crash. We spent most of the afternoon at the Nature and Science Museum. Love that place.