Monday, January 5, 2009

Utah New Year's Fun

We went to Utah to visit Travis' family on Sunday, December 28th.

Monday, we made ice sculptures in the front yard that had something to do with Christmas. We (the kids) went sledding in the backyard. Thanks to Uncle Chandler and dad no one crashed into the fence in the backyard (at least we'll tell Grandma and Grandpa that).
Working on the masterpiece. My suggestion was a candy cane ... they ended up with Rudolph.

Chandler's family Christmas Tree

Our reindeer.
Aunt Monique's beautiful snowflake! She definitely won and we definitely didn't!
Sledding in the backyard.

Calissa getting air.

Tuesday, at the tubing hill in Park City. We had so much fun!
We'll have to do this again next year! Calissa will be old enough next time that everyone can go on the giant hill. (The smaller hill was lots of fun too!)

Calissa, Conner and Travis riding up the tube lift.
Sledding without all the work of climbing up the hill!
Kylee, Parker (who we didn't see almost the whole time), Chandler, Jennifer & Jarom (I think :)

Wednesday(New Year's Eve), we went on the Front Runner train into Salt Lake to go ice skating outside at the Galavan Center.

Calissa, Conner, Kaisen, Kylee and Parker
(Jarom and Eisley joined us later)

Parker hugging the poles!

Conner skating without the rails.

Surprising ... Calissa did the best out of all of our kids ice skating. Maybe because she is closer to the ground and she's not afraid to fall.

We went to see Bedtime Stories at Gateway and then rode the train back to Bountiful. We had to wait about 20 minutes out in the cold for the train, but we had a fun time!

Grandkids with Grandpa Burr getting ready to welcome in 2009!

Thursday, Travis went skiing and the kids and I enjoyed a down day at Grandma and Grandpa Burr's house. Friday, the kids went to spend their hard-earned money to buy Rock Band 2. Then, we went to Uncle Chandler and Aunt Jennifer's for dinner and to watch the Utah bowl game. It started snowing about game time and we left at half-time to head back to Trav's parent's house. We almost didn't make it back up to their house because of all the snow. They got about 4-6 inches that night. The kids were excited to have it finally snow while we were there. It was a pretty warm trip until the last day. We had a great time like we always do visiting with our family in Utah. (It was nice to sleep in our own beds last night though!)
Happy New Year to everyone! We're excited to see what's in store for us this year.

1 comment:

Azure said...

Such fun pictures. It sure was a lot of fun to get to see you guys, as it always is. I wish it could be more often. Maybe one day......