Sledding

Here are some shots while some of the kids and Natalie went sledding at the golf course. Enjoy!














Michael sails down the hill!















Rebekah, Breanna, and Daniel















Rebekah and Daniel at the end of a run















Breanna on the flying saucer!

Greatest Snow On Earth!

We woke up this morning...something we've been blessed to do every morning so far...and Mother Nature had dumped yet another blanket of snow upon us! Natalie, Josh and Jacob went out to shovel the snow. Here are some pictures of how it looked!

This first one is out our front window.

Here are Natalie, Josh, and Jacob shovelling the driveway.

This last shot is to give some perspective of how deep this little 'skiff' is.

We're looking forward to drinking plenty of lemonade this summer!

Winter Camping!

Over the weekend, Josh's scout camp went Winter camping in the Uinta Mountains near Soapstone Basin.

This is a picture from the parking lot of the North Fork Campground. We caved off to the right of the parking lot. Most of us caved into the already existing snow bank, but it was still work!

Here, Josh (to the right) and his friend are standing on top of their cave. This is the morning after the campout. They were trying to destroy their cave. We don't like to leave them so others coming after don't get hurt falling into open

caves.

During the night, the temperature got to -8.8 degrees farenheight (yes, that is a negative number!) We decided that after zero degrees, that it all feels the same. In my cave (the last picture is me (throwing the snow) and another leader digging out our caves) the lowest temperature that I saw on my watch thermometer was positive 14 degrees. MUCH warmer than it was outside! We had a good time and earned some important bragging rights on this trip!

Happy New Year!

Our 'old year' ended, in part, with a trip to the golf course...not to golf, but to sled! Most of our sleds have broken over the years, and so the 'boys' went out and used the two working sleds and their bodies to slide down the hill! Loads of fun, but very cold. Sorry, no pictures, just use your imagination! Dinner and the movie was fun afterwards...and would you believe, with the arctic temperatures outside, we had ice cream for dessert!