Happy Birthday Rory!

You're such a good husband and brother! I hope you had a great birthday. What could be better than an ER trip at midnight, driving all the way home only to get stuck in your own driveway... twice, and breaking out the back window of the four runner?

At least you got to spend time with family. I love you, you old man.... 26.... sheesh.

Snowboarding Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! In addition to hanging out with family, eating waaaay too much chocolate and other yummy things, cross country skiing, playing cranium a brazillion times, and in general having an amazing time we also went snowboarding... twice! The first time Pete, Rory, and I went to Targhee and I forgot to take any pictures of the runs. It was way too cold to take off my gloves. I did take a picture of Pete's frozen eye lashes at the end of the day. The snow was great but it was so cold and foggy that the fog froze onto our goggles and made it pretty much impossible to see. Talk about dissorienting. But it was still tons of fun to go zipping through the trees and off little jumps.

Our second snowboarding trip was to the Jackson Pass. This time Laura and Mom joined our little group. It's been a life long dream of Mom's to ski the pass and now she has! What an awesome mom I have. Once again, the weather wasn't great but the snow was. There was powder up to our thighs! It was tiring.

Family Ski Trip!

We all went cross country skiing at Kelly on Monday. Everyone was there but no pictures of Dad and Adam because Adam was being a slow poke. Bummer.

We ended up splitting into two groups. Group Pete, Sam, Em, and Rory stopped to warm up at the warming hut and took a few pictures.

Oh, that picture was too nice. Here's the real one.


Pete being so happy to ski... and Sam being something.

Plus there was hot chocolate at the end! What a wonderful family ski trip.

Christmas Cookies

One of our family traditions is making Christmas cookies together. Well, at least frosting them together. The more frosting the better.

Skiing at Idlewilde

We went skiing with a group of friends on Saturday. It was really fun! And it was the perfect day for skiing too. Nice and sunny and no wind. I didn't take very many pictures and the ones I did take didn't have everyone in them. We had 11 people in all!

Christmas Trees and Skis

Here's a picture of the finished product. I've really been enjoying it especially because it took so much work to get it.

I've also been enjoying living on 25 acres. I have my very own cross country ski course. It's nice.

Be Vewy Vewy Quiet...

We're hunting Christmas twees. This is not a Christmas tree. It's a wild turkey. We saw it on our way to the Christmas trees. We also nearly ran over a couple of pheasant hens.

The mighty hunter searching for prey.

The thing about skiing in a mile and then killing your Christmas tree is you have to ski out a mile dragging the thing. Dead weight Christmas trees are heavy! Rory tried harnessing just himself but it didn't work too well so we had to turn it into a team effort. I admit, I was cranky.

We finally got the stupid thing back to the car and tied on top. We were pretty tired.

But we had hot cider in a nifty new thermos waiting for us so the day ended up good. Plus we got a lot of exercise. I was so exhausted I couldn't even aim the camera so half my face got cut off. Oh well. We now have a beautiful Christmas tree gracing our lovely living room. It looked a lot smaller outside.