2010, Here we come!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

For New Year's it was our year to have our family cabin. Due to four other families we only get it once every 4 years, so we were pretty excited to be going up there. It's a pretty big ordeal getting everything up to the cabin. We can only get there on snowmobiles, so we have sleds that we pull and put all of our belongings in them. For this trip we only had two snowmobiles, so we had to stagger the times we all came up. Ryan, Kate, and I were first. Parker was kind enough to go up the night before to turn on the heaters. When he came it was a whopping 20 degrees. BRRRRR! So when we got up there I think it had gotten up to 58 degrees. Still BRRRR! Kate and I stayed at the cabin while Ryan went back down to help everyone else out.

Here is Kate all bundled up.

Kate LOVES having her little dance parties. Here is Aunt Jackie dancing with Kate and Brewer. We spent a lot of time in the kitchen thanks to the abundance of food we all brought up.
Here we all are ringin in the New Year! Happy 2010 Ryan "surprised" everyone with his Superman boxers. He thought this was as close as he was going to get to streaking. He was wrong! Of course you can't celebrate without someone streaking. Ryan, Parker, and Bryce did take it down a notch this year! Once they got naked, they only ran around on the deck and decided to not go out snowmobiling naked. For everyones sake, I decided to keep this pg-13, and leave out the naked shots.

Afterwards, us girls dared each other to go run around outside WITH our clothes on, just no shoes or socks. I was in back, and thought I was so funny when they turned the corner and ran into the snow, and I stayed back. What a fun way to celebrate the new year!

The next day we played outside all day. Here is Parker trying to throw snowballs at us. I also thought this was a cool picture.

Grandma and Kate hanging out!

We went sledding a TON! Here I am sledding with the kids.

When us big kids would go sledding, we would go on the main road. We went from our cabin, to about half way down the canyon. It was such a rush! One person would stay back, and come get us with the snowmobile, and this sled attached. We would all pile in and come back to the cabin, to do it all over again!

Kelly and I getting ready to race!

Daddy and Kate enjoying some hot cocoa.

Kelly, Jaclyn, and I being silly. I thought it would be funny to try and get Jaclyn out in the snow. Kelly and I wrestled with her for a little bit. But she's a strong one! We decided to be nice and spare her. . .

So they thought it would be funny to try and get me in the snow! I had to go to the bathroom, so they thought they would be SO sneaky by just grabbing me once I came out.

Little did they know that I could hear them trying to be SO sneaky. I knew they were up to something! So I thought I would be so funny and sneaky by filling a glass up with water and dumping it on them! I got Jaclyn first. She didn't even see it coming! What made it even funnier was that Kelly just sat there laughing and was glad it was Jaclyn, not her that was all wet. In the meantime, I filled up the glass again, and poured it all over Kelly! Who's the sneaky one now?! Ya, they didn't think we were even, so they still attacked me, and I fought as hard as I could. I feel like I fought a good fight.

Bryce decided he would "help" us finish this off once and for all. We all ended up in the snow!

This time we were lucky because we had socks on. It wasn't as bad.

The last day we went for once last snowmobile ride. The view was gorgeous!

I just love this cabin so much. We are so fortunate to have had such a loving Grandfather who built this for us so we could create such wonderful memories.

Kelly also did a great post on this trip, and has tons more pictures, and has shared some more funny stories of what we did at the cabin. If your interested click here.