Winter Fun Video

What do we do in the Winter Time?....

When there's snow....

.....WE PLAY IN IT!

On New Years Day we went sledding up by Snow Basin Ski Resort with Grandma S. my sister JuLee and her daughter.

It was cold but the hill was perfect and everyone had a great time!

Even Grandma got in on the sledding action!

After sledding we got to head back to Grandma & Grandpa S.'s for yummy chili and hot chocolate.

Yesterday, January 19th we headed up Grandpa & Grandma W. way to play in the snow.

Grandpa was kind enough to pull the kids on their sleds behind the forklift.

They had a blast!

 We hoped coming up the canyon we'd be able to escape the air pollution and muck but some of it followed us up.

It wasn't as bad by any means but still a little mucky.

The men folk tying up the sleds.

And they're off!

The kids chasing Grandpa down after getting dumped on a corner.

I think Grandpa had fun too.

Josh got to be pulled behind all of the other sleds and hold onto the rope instead of having his sled tied on.

It looked tough but he handled it like a champ.

At one point he lost his sled but held on and got to pretend to be Indiana Jones.

MDH ran along and threw another sled right in front of him, Josh was able to pull himself onto the sled and keep going.

It was awesome!

My favorite was when the kids all got dumped at the same time on a corner and Grandpa didn't know. He just kept driving and the kids were all running behind calling his name.

What fun memories these kids are making.

Toward the end Sam got dumped and ran over by the sleds behind him.

It was about that time that I thought, "Hmmm, probably these kids should be wearing helmets."

Fortunately he wasn't injured seriously, just scraped.

He was a trooper though and just kept at it.

The best part was when I got cold I got to walk across the street to Grandma's house and go inside and stand by the fire!

That was awesome!

Happy Winter!

Jackson Hole

We went to Jackson with MDH's family to celebrate his parent's 50th wedding anniversary.
We had so much fun.  Unfortunately the batteries in my camera were not cooperating.
There were however lots of cameras around and so I'm hoping the others in our group will share some pictures with me.
This group shot was taken by MDH's sister and then I cropped and labeled.
I couldn't decide which coloring I like best so I'm sharing both.

Hopefully more pictures soon.

A Girl and Her Dress

Grandma made a dress....

....white eyelet lined with bright pink.

Grandma even made a white rosette to highlight the bright pink tie at the waist.

The bottom hem and short gathered sleeves have perfect delicate scallops. 

Grandma didn't even forget about her hair so there's a coordinating rosette for her soft curls too.

And, don't forget the lovely pink bow in the back.

Perfect for this little princess!

She pranced and danced and curtsied and smiled all day just like she really was a princess.

Well, she really is a princess....in so many ways.

Thank you Grandma for the beautiful dress.

I think you can see she LOVES it!

Easter Egg Hunt X 3

A lady in our neighborhood organizes an Easter egg hunt every year the Saturday before Easter.

Every one donates the candy and eggs (the eggs are used again every year) and they work together to stuff and hide them.

When it's all said and done there are over 1500 eggs.

That's a lot of candy!

and

A lot of fun!

Everyone looks forward to it each year.

Sweet Cheeks and some of her fun neighborhood friends.

Not making this up, this is seriously a quote.

"It's the motherload of Easter eggs, alien Easter eggs."

Quite a group of 7-8 year olds.

The Easter egg hunt was divided up by age and then they were sent to the different areas of the neighbor hood to hunt.

Four and five year olds got to hunt around the church. Some of the eggs were hid pretty good for 4 year olds and the hiding techniques looked familiar and similar to those used by my family.

Duder had helped hide the eggs and so I was confident he had the eggs for this group.

Turned out I was right, my boy had indeed hid these eggs, I was pleased and surprised I actually could spot the egg hiding technique of my boy.

Weird?

My brother and his family were able to join us.

Saturday afternoon Grandma and Grandpa W- also hosted a Easter Egg Hunt, Pinata, Dinner.

This time Uncle Dave had hid the eggs so this guy got to help hunt.

I thought it was funny that even though she wasn't blind-folded she still thought she needed her eyes closed. Wanted it to be fair I guess...

It was fun having our recently-returned-from-a-mission-in-Africa-nephew with us.

Just a hit or two into the pinata fun the head fell off but the candy was still inside so the "headless bunny" was restrung and the fun continued.

It reminded me of 

Little Bunny Fu-Fu, except that was the field mice who got bopped on the head but I think bunny fu-fu did in the end too.

Sunday Grandma and Grandpa S- Also hosted an Easter Egg Hunt and dinner.

We're so glad the weather held all weekend.

Searching low.

Searching high.

Grandpa found a good seat to enjoy the Easter Egg Hunt show.

Surveying the scene to make sure we did indeed find all of the eggs.

And we did....except for the one they found a couple of hours later kind of under a rock.....and except for the one they'll find next year when they're hiding the eggs....

So I think they Easter Egg Hunt x3 just may be enough hunting to tide them over until next year.....maybe....