last weekend my parents got a massive amount of snow at their cabin in Strawberry so Jason and I decided to go up for the weekend. we went up on Saturday with Jason's sister Loretta, her husband Ben and their baby, and our niece Madi. most of my family went up for the day and had a great time playing in the snow and sledding. they made this sledding course right by our cabin that curved around the road and it was so much fun!
all of my family left that night except my brother Clint and his wife Michelle. we had a great time that night playing games and eating brownies til midnight. the next day we did some more sledding and had a big snowball fight boys against girls. Clint's 3 year old Marlee kept shouting -girls win! girls win! for a while after, it was really cute. it was so beautiful with the snow and it started lightly snowing while we were out there. I couldn't believe how much snow there was and they said that it hadn't snowed that much in 5 years.
I love these pics I got of Clint and his son Nolan, so cute!
it was such a fun weekend and I'm so glad we got to go play in the snow at least once this winter.
Jason had to work most of New Years Eve night so I decided to have my family over for a little pizza and game night. it was the first time most of my family would see my new house (oh ya we bought a house!! I'll post about that later...) so I wanted it to look its best. I had only decided to have the party the day before and then that morning was a little crazy. Jason and I went to pick up a mid century buffet that Jason's sister had found for me the day before at an antique mall. I had been looking for one for months to use as our tv stand and she found me one for a steal at $100. when we got home I took Tarley for a walk and two dogs started following me so I had to find their home. by the time I had ran to the store and had everything finished my family started showing up.
we ate pizza, played Rummikub and others games, had a backyard fire (one in our pit and a huge bonfire when we lit our Christmas tree on fire), lit fireworks and had an early New Years eve countdown for the kids at 9. we played games until Jason got home around 11 then we went to Jason's sisters house for more fireworks and the real new years countdown. it was a pretty laid back new years but still a lot of fun! I hope to have many more parties at our house.
me with Brin's sweet baby Reese.
our Christmas tree bonfire got enormous really quick and I was definitely nervous my house would burn down.
the kids watched a Madagascar countdown on Netflix for an early new years!
