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Christmas in Truckee with Family and Fresh Snow

·Truckee, California·#winter#christmas#skiing#lake tahoe#family-holiday
Two adults, two children, and a dog squatting on a grassy hill with bare trees and a cloudy sky in the background.

Christmas in Truckee this year, everybody plus the dog. First order of business, before heading up, was the family picture on the hillside — the kids in matching poppy dresses, the dog stuffed into a red striped sweater. In the version where the grownups all managed to smile at the same time, the older kid had a tongue out. That's the one to keep.

Cookie duty in the kitchen after that: dough rolled flat on the granite, flour everywhere, a tray of red and green cutters, gingerbread men pressed out one at a time along the edge.

Then the snow, which was fresh and deep on the trees. From the top of the runs the whole of Lake Tahoe sat below the chairlift, flat blue all the way across to the far mountains, skiers strung out down the slope. Not a bad way to spend the 24th.

Two adults, two children, and a dog pose for a family photo outdoors on a grassy hill with trees.A child uses a rolling pin on dough on a kitchen counter with a person standing beside them.A child kneads dough on a kitchen counter, assisted by an adult leaning over them, with appliances and cabinets in the background.A person watches a child using cookie cutters on dough, with cutouts on a baking tray in a kitchen.A wide ski slope with a chairlift, overlooking a vast blue lake and snow-capped mountains under a clear sky.A snowy ski slope with several people in the foreground, overlooking a vast blue lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains.Skiers descend a snowy slope with evergreen trees, overlooking a large blue lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains.A scenic winter landscape featuring a large blue lake surrounded by snow-covered mountains and frosty evergreen trees.

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