Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Christmas Vacation Part Duex

Taking advantage of the new snow....cross country skiing at Dutch Hollow. The snow was so deep and there were no tracks so we each took turns breaking the trail. Me, my dad, Jeremy and my brother in law Jed.

We all had our moments, but it was quite a treat to see all the boys fall down in front of me. Jed was the first which made it even better (its always nice to have one more thing to tease him about) Jeremy went to help him and fell, and my dad turned back to see what was going on and HE fell!

View of Midway Valley from our sledding hill.





"Psst, Ellia, I'm not so sure we were supposed to eat yet" Jace and Ellia

Dancing to Mama Mia




New sassy coat





Jumping her new horse!



Ugly sweater party before





after






Derek & Chelsea






If the picture were 3D you could see that this sweater has things like wrapped presents hanging off it!



Ryan & Sara




Jeff



Geoff and Aleena


Alex & Becky



Jared & Heather. He had a real sweater from Savers but when Heather washed it, it turned out Ellia size! So he came as a vaquero with stockings pinned to his shirt!


Jazz game later that night



Jer, Gunner and Addie duck hunting at Utah Lake....ah, we just don't see those beautiful skies where we are now...


View of Timp


Jer, Travis and Gunner with their prizes


How we spent our New Years! We generally go to Jared's cabin at Bear Lake and we generally have something to talk about afterwards, last year it was Jared puking, the year before it was the water getting shut off, this year while we were playing an intense board game the table broke right in half! At least we had a good view of the lake from where we were sitting!


Happy 2009!


Watch out, Jared's gotta gun! We shot off guns...so redneck I know, and watched some fireworks down below us as we welcomed in the new year. Imagine my scare when the first gun went off and I jumped to celebrate only to hit my head on the lamp I was standing under!


Snowshoeing
What a nice message God sent on the first day of the new year!



Liz, Travis, Jer, me, Greg and Mallary


Jared wouldn't share the banana cream pie he asked a little old lady in Paris Idaho to make for his birthday, so Heather had to buy one from Marie Calendar's for us to share!











Among other things we played a new game called Cosmic Keep Away, and the traditional ping pong around the world, it was a bit more comfortable playing in the cabin than previous times when we played in people's garages in the middle of winter!