This is Lee and me with Mark and Lia Robinson at Trattoria di Umberto, a wonderful restaurant right in the Mountainside Lodge where we stayed. We were up at Whistler for a week on a timeshare trade. We had great skiing, sunshine, and a wonderful time at the restaurants and shops. I did another snowshoe trek too, this one a guided uphill 3k hike. We all managed to dine so sumptuously that we packed on a few pounds despite all the exercise, so we're home now doing "penance."

This is Elena with Steve's college roommate Romeo Papazyan and with me at the Ridge Tahoe where we all gathered for our family ski week for New Year's and the week after. She crawled around and had loads of fun playing with her new Christmas toys.