I found a groupon deal to the Zermatt hotel in Midway, so I decided to get it and surprise Brad with an early anniversary get-away. I didn't tell him anything until about an hour before we left. We got to Midway and checked into our hotel then went to the Homestead Crater across the street for a little soak. It was awesome. We went to a Mexican place for dinner that night then watched a movie in our hotel room. On Wednesday, after checking out of the hotel, we stopped by the Park City outlets on our way home. It was a fun little get-away and it's been the best 4 years of our lives!
-We had our annual Vivint Christmas party. I am sad I didn't get more pictures, but we had a blast! We played the present game, minute-to-win-it games and pictionary. We were given tickets throughout the night and then we put the tickets in the stocking of what we wanted to try and win. I won a nice winter coat and Brad won a jacket. Drew came with us and he was the lucky winner of the ipad mini! It was a fun night!
-Makoi dressing up as Mario
-Pretty sunrise on an early morning.
-I took the Hess kids to see Santa at Smiths Marketplace. Ruby was, once again, scared to go near him but Charlie and Lucy enjoyed sitting on his lap and telling him what they want for Christmas.-I decided to help the Hess kids make paper snowflakes one afternoon, and I love the way they turned out! The kids liked them too.
-One day while driving home, Ruby and Lucy both fell asleep in the car and then asked to take a nap
when we got home!
We went to Island Park, ID with Brad's side of the family. We were only missing Elgin, who couldn't get time off work. We stayed at the cabin of Bryce's cousin and it was the perfect size for all of us! We got there late on Sunday and stayed until Saturday morning. We had a lot of fun hanging out at the cabin, playing lots of games, watching movies, opening presents, going on snowmobile rides, celebrating Coralyn's birthday, making ornaments and decorating the tree (they cut it down before we got there). For meals, each couple was in charge of one breakfast, one lunch and one dinner and it worked out perfect! We also went into West Yellowstone one day and walked around the little shops. It was so fun to see all the cousins together and it was such a fun week!
We got to go to the Piano Guys concert in Salt Lake with my parents, Kylee and Brody. It was awesome and we loved every second of it!! (The Hatches came to Logan for Christmas break and got here while we were in Island Park.)
My mom had a fun p-day party in honor of Jake and Cam (because they love their p-days). It was so fun- we are going to make it a tradition and do it every year! Everything we did that night started with a P. We wore our pajamas, ate pizza, pop, purple punch, potatoes (fry's), pretzel jello, popcorn and pistachios, and we played the pickle game, ping pong, pictionary, prediction game, and had prizes! The Bundy's and my Grandma joined in the fun.
The Call's invited us to spend a few days at their cabin in Wyoming. The Nelsons and Grandma were there too and it was so much fun! They had just finished building their 'barn' which is actually bigger than the house. It has an arcade room, a stage for karaoke, 2 bowling lanes complete with bowling shoes, a tv and sitting room downstairs, a kitchen, a huge mud room, a pull-through garage for their 9 snowmobiles, a boat, 2 side-by-sides and some 4-wheelers. Then upstairs has 2 big screen TV's (for gaming), air hockey, and two bunk rooms that can each sleep 10 people. PLUS what will eventually be a zip line into a small pond! It was all seriously amazing, we were all blown away!
We spent Christmas Eve at the Weyerts where we had an amazing dinner consisting of crab legs, shrimp, oysters, turkey, roast beef + tons of sides. We also played the present game, had a photo booth and opened our presents from my Grandparents.
We were afraid we would not have a white Christmas, but luckily we woke up on Christmas morning to this beauty! It was the best! Brad and I opened a few presents at our house, then spent the morning in Willard with his parents and little brothers.
The best part of Christmas was getting to talk to these two brothers of mine. They are both doing so good on their missions but we miss them like crazy! It was fun to get to talk to them both at the same time so that they could see each other as well.
Yup- he is the cutest! It was so fun to spend two whole weeks with him! It's so fun to see his cute personality as he gets older. We got to see him eat solid food for the first time. He wasn't too sure about it.
-Kylee got a new camera for Christmas so she wanted to try it out and took our pictures. I love how they turned out!
-We had a fun game night with the Bundy's one night with some minute-to-win-in games.
-For New Years Eve, I went with my family to the Skeens for dinner along with all of our relatives who live in Cache Valley. After dinner, we went to Trace's church for some fun games and more yummy food. Brad was gone on a preseason trip to California so he missed out on the fun. :(
