Dashing through the snow....

in a one horse open ...snow mobile!

What a fabulous new years we had! We ventured out of Washington and headed to Idaho to meet up with my sisters, brother and parents and their families to a cabin hidden in the snow at the base of the Teton Mountains!

I couldn't have dreamed up a more beautiful and picturesc scene......the rugged cabin was filled with wood carvings, moose heads, elk heads and more antler chandeliers that I could count. We were surrounded by huge fur trees and about 5 feet of snow. It was perfect!

The wood cabin was tucked in about 1/2 mile from from state roads, we had to snow mobile in. What an adventure... It was a blast, we piled the kids in the sled and rode in. We stayed for 3 days, and packed in all of the food we needed via snow mobile.

We layed out all of the food and sacks on an island in the kitchen, and the two little ones (Mya and Owen) circled that island like sharks waiting for food to fall..those two little ones ate the entire week, I have never seen such little people each so much in my life.

The cousins had a great time just being together and they played so nice together....with a few small minor "incidents"

During the day, the kids enjoyed tubing down a HUGE hill that the dad's made for them, it was so fast! The kids laughed the whole way down, and didn't seem to mind when they face planted in the snow. I don't think that they even noticed or cared that it was -4 degrees!

I prefered to stay tucked inside by the fire with Ruby in one arm and a nice fat cup of hot chocoate in the other hand.

We ate a lot, played games, ate more, and some of us party'd a lil too hard (ahem....Lorna, see last picture!)
Please note: NO, lorna was not drunk, andy found this bottle at the cabin and placed it on a sleeping Lorna for a joke.

So, here are some pictures of our adventures:

Tyson hooked up this cool sled to the snowmobile to pull the kids on, they loved it!