New Years Holiday at Deer Hollow

After a painfully long road trip to Utah we spent an absolutely WONDERFUL week in Utah at my parents place and forgot (almost) about the long 21 hour drive. Every stay there is nothing short of luxury; the food, the accommodation's, the pillow top beds and feather pillows, people you love everywhere and to TOP it off with the best family ever... it is heaven on earth. Sometimes we go visit and we just have to pitch ourself asking "is it really real?" Because it was so cold that they had about 4 feel of snow we spent a great deal of time inside (very unusual there) playing games and watching movies.

My gorgeous mother and did I mention gourmet cook?





Grandpa Garth

Uncle Dave using Douby as a typewriter.

My beautiful Sister Dane and her beautiful daughter (my niece) Whitney.

There's the crazy eye again :)


Burger and Dooey at the lodge.

The artist Scooby Do


One of the boys funnest past times was being pulled on the sleds behind the fourwheeler. It was so funny watching them fly around and squeal with delight.




Eddies snow fort.


Bens Snow Dragon.


New Years Eve Dance, the can can.

That's was our shoes look like, really not post worthy I just thought it was cute, all gathered up and ready for the drive home.

Glen Canyon --- Pit stop on the way home, day #1

A Very Merry Christmas

It was a perfect Christmas holiday, minus the snow or cold temps. We still throughly enjoys the holiday together. Christmas Day night we went to eat with another family at our good friends the Whitney's house. It was just a splendid day!

Christmas Eve 2008

Christmas Eve was just magical.

Ahhh... look there is the "crazy eye again" thats Ben's new favorite thing to do the ruin my pictures. Won't stop me from post'n though.

On Christmas Eve day we throughly enjoyed the mild weather but did sort of miss the snow (for a day) so in lieu of no snow OR cold temps we went "cardboarding" on and had a blast.

Pillow Talk

Not exactly sure what got into the boys a few days before Christmas, all that time off school made them bored or something. Anyway, they had a burning desire to learn how to sew....? what??? I know... weird. SO I taught them how to hand stitch a pillow which they did, all by themselves and it served as an excellent travel pillow on our long road trip to Utah.

Kids Winter Parties

Sad but true... gone are the days of enjoying the true meaning of the season at school. I am the room parent in 2 of the boys classrooms and wow... did we ever have to jump through hoops when planning the "Winter (aka Christmas) Party" to make sure we were including all beliefs and backgrounds and leaving the word CHRISTmas out of it... so sad. The boys still had a great time. Note to self, remind me not to sign up to be room parent x2.






Fish and his BBF Karter... their last day at school before Christmas break that got a day off where they get to read books all day, wear pjs and bring their favorite blanket. I was actually in Eddies class that day but I walked down to see how they were all doing and this was what my eyes beheld, Fish and Karter snuggled up together in the corner reading, it was so cute I had to snap a shot from my camera.

Mainstreet Bethlehem

This was the coolest thing and pictures just don't do it justice, it was called Mainstreet Bethlehem and they literally constructed a miniature town of Bethlehem, with the hustle and bustle, everything you might expect or imagine in Bethlehem they recreated, actors in FULL costumes, fresh baked sweet bread and on and on. It was really truly something amazing and well worth the hour drive and the hour+ wait to get in. A perfect way to celebrate the holiday.