Christmas Memories at the Cabin

Jared, Ashley, and Josie flew into SLC on Wednesday, December 22 to spend the holidays with us. We stayed at the cabin the next 2 nights. Skied on Christmas Eve then drove home on Christmas morning to have dinner and open presents with the rest of the family. Was a fun time!

Joel had Christmas twice since we had bought him a ski helmet and he needed to use it before Christmas at Beaver!

 

Beautiful Lake!

 

Jared and Joel trying to sled through the cabins near our cabin.

 

1st time back on skis in many, many years. I am sore!

 

Joel had no problems getting back on his skis!

 

Jared was so nice to stay with the "old folks" to help us up when we fell!

 

Santa was even skiing before loading his sled and driving around the world to deliver gifts that night!

 

Ashley and Josie with her Christmas pjs.

 

Cute family!

 

Christmas morning brought lot of frost around the lake. This was the beautiful site we had while making our way back home.

 

 

Snow Days!

For the past couple of days we have been getting some good snow falling around us! It's going to be a White Christmas!

 

 

 

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!

Am picking up Josie, Ashley and Jared tomorrow from the SLC airport so I hung the stockings tonight from the chimney with care......I am excited to think that we will have the whole family together this year!

 

 

 

The rest of Saturday......

......besides seeing the Provo tabernacle, dad and I picked up Joel for Christmas break from the Y. I also won a dozen gingerbread cookies from Kneaders so we picked those up too. Oh they were yummy! I was just expecting round regular ginger cookies so was very surprised and happy to see what I won when I opened the box!

 

 

I also won the lottery drawing of 4 tickets to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert with David Archuleta and Michael York. It was a very nice Christmas concert! I think the conference center can hold about 30,000 people. It was filled for 3 nights!

 

 

A landmark gone.

The Provo Tabernacle burned during the night on Friday, December 17-18th, 2010. A beautiful building. We saw it the next day. Not sure what caused it to burn. I hope it wasn't arson. I heard today that there would be selective parts restored and then the rest would be new. Hard to see such a beautiful landmark gone!

 

 

 

Dad saw the missionaries taking pictures so he went over to take a couple of the two of them together.

 

Wednesday playtime!

Something new for Corbin to play with! He loved pushing and pulling this toy tub around after Tyson dumped all the toys out of it. No. I did not take of picture of the family room floor. Let's just say alot of the toys are now packed up. Way too many for 2 lil' boys to play with at one time!

 

 

 

 

This was the afternoon.....

 

 

Aren't they precious?!

"I was brave!"

Santa can be a bit scarey to a small child. Last night, our ward had it's annual Christmas dinner and Santa came to see the children. Tyson was so excited to see Santa....before Santa came. Santa asked all the children to sit down on the floor and Tyson was so good, he did what Santa said. The problem was that all the other older children (and moms) pushed up and around Tyson to be closer to Santa. Tyson was then in the back of the group. I think it was overwhelming then for Tyson. He wasn't sure anymore that he wanted to talk to Santa. Santa spied him at the back and asked him to come sit on his lap so I took Tyson up to Santa. Santa asked what Tyson wanted him to bring him for Christmas. Tyson said nothing so Santa asked him if he wanted a truck and Tyson said yes. Santa asked if he wanted an airplane. Again, Tyson said yes. After Tyson got his bag of candy and said "thank you", he turned to me and said, "grammie, I was brave!" Love that timid, sweet lil' boy of ours!

 

 

 

Playdate with the boys!

We brought down a few Christmas items from the attic on Sunday. One of those items was the Fisher-Price Nativity set. For some reason, Tyson loves playing with the donkeys. He even had to put them in time out last night. I found them in the couch this morning and that's when he told me that they had been naughty. LOL!

 

 

Oops Corbin! Not so fast!

 

He is loving balls and balloons now. Loves to kick!

 

Had Tyson help decorate the Christmas tree. He loved putting the ornaments on the tree. He thought it was fun. I'm so glad because I don't have anyone to help me anymore with the decorations so whatever I put up, I get to take down. Tyson actually wanted me to take pictures of him putting up the balls!

 

 

Here he is showing me his exciting, happy dancing moves!

 

This lil' face makes me so happy!