Utah trip

We headed up to utah on Jan 1st.  The next day the boys went up to the canyons, Chris to ski and Conor to ski school.  Norah and I went back to the condo to sleep.  

The next day Chris' family showed up at the condo for the family Christmas party.

We stayed in park city for another day, then on Monday went out to roosevelt.  We hung with jay and Toni, then with my family where we celebrated my, Chris, and Lexie's birthdays.

Crazy and cold, but we had fun!

Photo dump

Christmas Eve and Christmas

We had a busy but fun Christmas!  On Christmas Eve, we invited a few friends over for hot chocolate and s'mores.  It was a blast!  The adults were able to relax (in 65 degree weather!) and the kids ran around like little crazy people.  

Then that evening we went to our neighbors church for their Christmas Eve service.  The kids were tired and wiggly so we had to keep taking them out but we were still glad we went.

After church, we stopped and grabbed pizza for dinner.  While eating we attacked the presents under the tree.  The kids were in heaven!  They stayed up late so they could play with some of their new toys, then put out treats for the reindeer and a special key for Santa to get in, and crashed around 9:00.

The next morning we found that Santa had come!  The big gifts were new 4-wheelers for both kids, Conor got a new (bigger!) tool bench and Norah got a kitchen.  The rest of the day we just hung out, watched Christmas movies and the kids played with their new toys.  We had a quiet turkey dinner with just the 4 of us, then early bed for everyone.  It was a great Christmas!

Christmas fun 12/20-21

This past weekend we drove up to Flagstaff for a little winter fun.  We got there Saturday and met up with our friends the Powells for lunch and some snow fun.  The only snow we could find was just on the side of the road in some trees, but the kids didn't care- they had a blast throwing snowballs, picking up rocks and sticks and just exploring in the trees.  Norah was starting to get sick and she actually fell asleep in my arms while we watched the boys play.  

After all the kids were throughly worn out we headed back to the hotel and met up with Grammy Sherry.  We cleaned up and then went to dinner.  Both kids were up most of the night coughing and Norah had a mild fever.

The next morning we rallied and went to the North Pole Experience.  It was a blast.  So much fun for the little ones!  We hopped on a trolley which took us through a "portal" to the North Pole and Santa's workshop.  The kids got to see some of Santa's first toys, his original workbench, and then got to help the elves make some toys.  They then got to send the toys through the factory to make them ready for Santa to load on his sleigh.  After all that hard work they had cookies and hot chocolate in Mrs Claus' bakery.  Then they had a little lecture in Elf Academy, then wrote letters to give directly to Santa.  We got to see Santa's sleigh, then Santa himself!  It was a lot of fun and we can't wait to do it again next year!