Video's

Here are some of the video's from the mountains a few weeks ago.  Enjoy!

Mountains

We enjoyed a few days in the mountains last weekend and got to spend a little time with just our little family.  When we left Thursday, the weather was reporting snow, sleet and rain from here all the way to the mountains.  We were in rain for about 15 minutes and never saw any other form of precipitation the rest of the way!

This was the first glimpse of snow we saw finally

We rented Landry ski’s again this time but he wanted no part of riding the ski lift after he saw it when we took him to the mountain, so we just played around the cabin.

Ansley even got to ski for the first time!

The slopes lit up for night skiing

We celebrated Ansley’s 18 month birthday our last night there, so we got to enjoy some cookies!

Sunday morning as we were getting ready to leave, it started to snow

About 45 minutes after it started snowing, we left the cabin and there was as least 3-4 inches of fresh snow.  It was coming down so hard you could basically see only the back of the vehicle in front of you.

The road through the canyon was slick and at one point I really thought we were going to end up in the river, but luckily Chris didn’t freak out like I was and quickly got everything under control.  There was a huge line of cars in front and behind us, so it took us awhile to get through there.

But by the time we got out of the canyon and made it to Cimarron, this is what we saw!  No snow whatsoever!

We had perfect weather until we got almost home when we got into sleet.  I-40 was horrible.  There had been several wrecks and it was at a complete stand still.  After about 20 minutes of not moving, we went off-roading through the ditch to the access road.  This was the trucks we were behind which were several miles behind the wreck and there were cars and trucks behind us for miles as well.

Needless to say, we made it home safely thank goodness! 

What a great little vacation!

I have several fun video’s to share of the kids skiing, but as usual I hate YouTube.  I’ll try to post them soon.

Hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine’s Day! I know I did!

2011. A Year in Review

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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great *and safe* New Year’s Eve.

I hope everyone is blessed with health and happiness in this new year!

Mountain Getaway

We got back from a nice 4 day getaway to the mountains on Sunday.  We had gorgeous weather and an overall great time! Now prepare yourself for a major picture overload.

Friday morning as we were getting out and about, there was a fine snow blowing around and all around the sun was an incredible rainbow.  I had to adjust it a lot to show up in the picture, but it was amazing.

We decided to rent Landry some ski’s and let him play around the cabin and try to get the hang of it a little.  We honestly never thought he’d even put them on, more or less love them, but he proved us wrong and absolutely loved it!

This might be my new favorite pic.

I know they’re hard to see, but the field was full of elk on our way home from dinner

And a few deer

Saturday morning the community center was having a Breakfast with Santa that we took the kids to.  It didn’t turn out to be much, but Landry got to do a few crafts and see Santa, so that’s all that mattered.

When we got there, there was only 2 other kids, so they had fun dancing with this guy.

Eating a few goodies before the guy in red showed up

Saying hi to Ansley.  Landry didn’t really want anything to do with him, except to wave and the Santa didn’t really pay attention to the kids much so we left soon after.

The rest of the day was spent playing outside again

More elk

We kept seeing this guy around the cabin all weekend.  I wish I would’ve got a picture of him out of the trees so you could see his rack, it was huge!  I think Chris said he had 11 points, but the height and width on them was pretty impressive.

I had to get a picture of these gorgeous trees covered in ice on the way home.  Aren’t they pretty?

Then we had to come back to reality! 

Ansley had tubes put in on Wednesday and did great! Hopefully that’ll clear up all her ear infections finally.

Christmas is in 10 days! Can you believe it?  Always remember that Jesus is the reason for the season.