Christmas at the Cabin

We had soo much fun at the cabin this year! Christmas morning we were all woken to my mom shooting us out of bed with her new GIANT nerf gun! Definately memorable... Mel and Cody brought Alana and Ellie up for the week in between Christmas and New Year and we had so much fun with them! We spent lots of time out in the snow, sledding, building snowmen, and rides behind the snowmobiles!! We also found some creative things to do inside...




Joni and Alana... midcrash! Alana also lost both boots, some mittens and her hat... Needless to say she was hesitant to go down with Joni again...

These are some of the fun things we did inside with Alana and Ellie! Alana wanted to create the biggest picture in the world... like on 'Ramona and Beezus.' I'm not biased at all, but I think we did a pretty awesome job!!

My mom bought Alana a new "snowmobile" sled, which she LOVED! But we really couldn't resist hooking her behind and towing her!! Luckily.. no crashes, and she could be pulled up the hill, sled down... repeat!! I'm pretty sure she never had to walk more than 2 steps!!

Kris, Joni and I all got the same Christmas presents.... SEWING MACHINES!! I'm not sure who was the MOST excited, but actually I really think it was Kris!!

This picture makes me laugh!! My mom's personality captured at last!!

Christmas in a Crazy Family

Christmas this year was unlike any other... Because the annual bare-foot race isn't enough, my CRAZY cousins decided to step it up a notch! They got in their swim suits and we drove to the marina at Pineview... and they JUMPED in!!! I'm still not sure what the purpose was? But I think it was some kind of sick pleasure from being super cold?!

Racing toward the plundge!
On their way back... with a few spectators.

I guess I really shouldn't be so suprised... but I still thought they were pretty crazy for voluntarily jumping into a frozen lake!