Cabin Fun

We spent the weekend of the 20th and 21st in Bear Lake with some of Kenny's high school friends and their families. Kenny's friend Andy owns a cabin up there that he rents out to people. They had the weekend free of renters so they invited us and another friend, Tony up for some cabin/Christmas fun. We had a blast and it was fun for Kenny to see his friends whom he hasn't seen in almost 3 years.

Gracie and Ben taking a ride on the 4-wheeler

We arrived mid day on Saturday and decided to take the kids sledding. It turned out to not be the best day for sledding. The weather was cold, windy, and just not good. The kids were troopers and stayed out longer than I thought they would. Andy had brought his 4-wheelers which made the sledding experience much more pleasant and probably made it last longer. As a treat for staying out so long we took the kids swimming at the area pool to warm up. Once Ben got brave enough to go under the water we had a great time, but my camera was too fogged up for pictures.

Ben and Daddy trip down the hill. Looks fun, doesn't it!

Oh no! This can't be good!

Now that looks cold. Ben was a good sport and when Daddy got his face wiped clean he was ready to go again.

Sarah Kate having a blast despite the cold weather.

Ben and Jaxon ready to head up the hill.

Sarah and Dylan getting pulled up for another trip down.

After swimming we went back to the cabin to have some dinner. Tony and his family and Andy's sister Ginger (who lives there in town) and her family showed up after dinner. There were a total of 12 kids (and 2 pregnant mom's) whose ages ranged from 9 to Gracie's 14 months. We had a blast and the kids had a blast as well. Ginger went home that night, but left her daughter so around 11:00 we put all 11 kids to bed upstairs in the loft filled with bunk beds.

The 10 kids (minus Ginger's 2). The blonde's are Andy's, the tan ones are Tony's and the others are ours.

Gracie and Berkeley staying warm inside with the big kids were sledding.

The adults went downstairs to watch some TV and talk. After awhile the women went to bed and the guys went out into the hot tub. They stayed up until 4:30 in the morning talking. I guess they really did have a lot to catch up on. They enjoyed their time together, but when the kids got up at 8:00 the next morning they quickly saw an almost all nighter may not have been the smartest idea.

Saturday's bad weather sledding.

Sunday's good weather sledding.

The next day was spent sledding again (in much better weather), hot tubing, eating, napping, playing games, and just hanging out. Sarah Kate took quickly to Andy's 2 oldest boys who are 9 and about 2 week older than her. Ben tagged along and kept up pretty well with only a few fights. Hannah and Gracie played with whomever they could find. It was nice to see all of our kids playing together, but I think it was nicer for Kenny than me. It meant a lot to him.

Sledding with Daddy, what fun.

Hannah was having fun even though you can't tell in this picture.

Ben finishing what looks like a fun ride.

The second day of sledding was much better than the first. Gracie and I even went down the hill and loved it (though I don't think I'll be doing much more sledding the further along I get.) It was a lot of fun to listen to the kids, especially Gracie and Hannah, giggle as they went down the hill. Being a parent can be so much fun sometimes.

Tony and Shauna had to got home that night, but we stayed with Andy's family for one more night. The next morning we woke up to a sick Daddy, a snowy day, and a lot of packing to do. Kenny slept in because we was NOT feeling well. When it came time to leave we discovered our van was not made for the amount of snow we had received. It took us about an hour to get out of the driveway and that was with some major help from the 4-wheeler and Andy's 4-wheel drive truck.

We finally made it out of the driveway and started our journey home. We got stopped in Logan canyon because of a college kid who was driving to fast and didn't quite make a turn. Luckily there were no serious injury's and after waiting for over an hour we were able to head for Logan again. Logan was as far as we made it. We stopped at my sister-in-laws house to drop off some Christmas presents and Kenny was so sick he didn't want to try driving anymore. With the weather the way that it was I didn't want to try driving so we spent the night at my Mom and Dad's. It was a great weekend that ended up being longer than expected, but we were glad we had chosen to be safe.