New Years Week

Our fun week began with Grandma, Grandpa, Kristen, Sorayah, and Kylee arriving at our house New Years' Eve. New Years Day we got ready for our trip, took a chilly walk around the block, played, and had cousins over for dinner. These six cousins are all so close in age-- 2-6. It was pretty cute to see them run around the house and play all together!
Sunday after church we were off! Kevin's parents rented a cabin outside of Heber City for 5 nights. Keri met us up there, and Kurt and Jen came on Monday. We were only missing Kristen's husband, but it's been two years since even that many of us were all together. We were perfectly lucky that the snowstorm was a day or two before our arrival, the roads were easy to drive on and we had fresh snow for lots of sledding and pretty views. It stayed clear and sunny all week, perfect for all the playing outside we did.

We spent the week playing the Wii, hot-tubing (beautiful stars at night! almost as good of views as camping), tubing at Soldier Hollow, visiting Olympic Park, snowmobiling, and taking a trip to Provo to see the Carl Bloch exhibit (amazing!). In between all of that, we were sledding, sledding, and more sledding on the hills around the house. It was a week filled with fun!

Kristen knitted these beautiful hats for all the girls and Luke. They are darling!

(even if Violet refused to cooperate for a picture!)

Luke the pro skier

I was pretty impressed with the museum (free!) at Olympic Park. Lots of hands-on exhibits. It was fun to walk through. We saw a few of the skiers from the Australian team practicing their jumps too.

Sorayah, Cora, Violet, and Kylee in the bobsled

Kevin's parents rented snowmobiles for the day on Wednesday. The cabin was in a gated community that has access to National Forest snowmobiling areas. It was fun to go explore there a bit, and fun to go around the neighborhood too. Cora and Violet loved it... and each took a nap on one of their turns too.

Luckily Kevin was up for driving, because I sure wasn't. He took us down and up some steep hills!

Cora and I

The view from the cabin-- there's a lake back there too. I think it would be a fun place to rent in the summer as well.

Grandpa, Kylee, and Violet

We had a little early celebration for Dawn's birthday too

The whole gang-- after a great farewell dinner at Tucano's in Provo. Now thankfully I can switch out our family picture-- my last one is from when Cora was 11 months old-- we have added 3 family members since then! And hopefully we can get Byron in the next one :).