Happy Holidays

Well, I certainly have a lot of catching up to do. We've been busy the past month and there's a little summary of what we've been up do.

Lisa and Brent celebrated their 5 year anniversary at the beginning of the month and came up to Logan, so we got to see them. We went to lunch and then bowling. It was so great to see them and have a fun day. And Dax loved the black lights a the bowling alley.

Lindsey put in her time at USU and made it to graduation. I know how long and hard of a road it is to finish school, so I'm proud of her for doing it. Congrats Linds!
Snowboarding is becoming an expensive hobby so when we heard about Brighton having a $15 day pass, we couldn't pass it up. It was a beautiful day on the mountain and a great day of snowboarding. It was nice to get out of the house and get some good exercise too.
We spent Christmas this year in South Dakota with Luke's family. We spent a week with them plus and extra day because of bad weather. It was such a fun week laughing, playing games, rocking out on Rock Band, and just hanging out. As you can tell, Kara was loving this round of video games.
We did a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve. I was the proud owner of a book about fishing. Wow, I'm sure you can hear the excitement in my voice. Luckily, Dennis is a huge fan of fishing and wanted to trade for his awesome prize... Superman underpants. Since both meant nothing to me, I figured trading wouldn't hurt. But the cost was that he had to pose before he gave the underpants away. I might have to use that for blackmail later.
My big gift this year was the Wii! It has been so much fun playing games that everyone can do together. Luke's brother brought over Super Mario Brothers and that was a blast playing with 4 people. We ended up buying the game because it was so much fun.

We came home for a week after South Dakota and then headed to Midway, UT for another week of vacation. We had a free trip from listening to one of those time-share things, so we figured local would be the easiest with a small child.

Near the resort was what we named Christmas World. I don't know where it came from exactly, but that's what Lindsey named it. It was a bunch of structures made with water fountains that would drip and then freeze. Very cool and very time consuming.

My parents, Lindsey and Tyler came to the resort as well and we celebrated Christmas a week late. As you can tell from the loot below, Dax got really spoiled. OK, not all of them were his, but he did get spoiled. His grandparents gave him a ton a books that he loves looking at! Thanks for spending a few days with us.

Thanks to Warren Miller, we had a ski day at The Canyons. It wasn't as good of snow as Brighton was, but still a great day. Jake and Kara came along with us. It's always fun to snowboard with a group.

This is the resort where we stayed. All the buildings were Switzerland themed. It felt like a little village in the mountains.
So that pretty much sums up what we've been up to the past month. Hope that everyone had happy holidays!