Our North Pole Experience

A week ago we spent a few days up north in Pinetop and Greer, in the Arizona White Mountains. We took the adventure with Ethan's best friends, Hudson and Carter. Their family has a cabin in Pinetop so we spent a couple of days relaxing, walking, biking, eating, drinking and enjoying each others company. There were no time constraints for once. The boys enjoyed every minute, especially finding some snow and throwing snowballs and exchanging Christmas gifts. Ethan got a new crane, dump truck and garbage truck, while the boys got new personalized aprons and cooking sets. All three boys have taken cooking classes together. And during our gift giving, Santa or his elves stopped by the porch because the boys were left with Golden tickets to the North Pole Experience or "Santa's workshop to see the real Santa." We spent another couple days in Greer seeing Santa, Mrs. Claus, the workshop and all the elves. Mrs. Claus made cookies and snowman soup (hot chocolate) for us and the elves let us help make toys. We also got the inside on elf school before telling Santa what we wanted for Christmas - Ethan a skateboard and scooter. Daddy-o couldn't make the trip since he was recovering from knee surgery, but we all had a lot of fun (see 7 minute video)!