What have we been up to lately?......

So just a little update to let you know what's going on with us here in the Freezing town of Vernal.  I got a nice treat to use my last years Mother's Day gift from Nate and our Boys, which was a gift certificate to get a massage at Salon in Roosevelt.  It was very much appreciated and needed.  I then got to stay over at Holiday Inn by myself and caught up on my blogging.  Of course Nate and our Boys came and went swimming with me and stayed awhile and watched cartoons, then came back in the Morning for Breakfast.  The Boys wore Nate right out, he had to take a much needed nap while the Boys watched cartoons with me, before we all went back home.  It was a very nice weekend.  Thank you Honey and Boys again, I Love You!

A few funny things the Boys have said lately that really made me laugh.  Aidan-talking about adults and children.  "Big Daddies, and Mommies like spicy, but little boys don't eat spicy, just big ones do."
Corbin-Asked if he could dip a chip in my salsa, which of course I said sure then asked him how he liked it.  His comment "It's fire in my Mouth, but I like it can I have another dip."  Too funny!  I love to see little minds at work trying to figure all this craziness we call life out.  I also love when my Kids come up with silly things like these comments, I always need a good laugh!

Today we have had a great day!  I've been out playing in the snow with my Boys and we went sledding down our own man made hill we built in our front yard.  Then we had a snowball fight, and the Boys ran around and built snow forts and castles and of course had a battle with plastic bats while playing Star Wars.  I'm glad I forced my little munckins outside away from the T.V to get some well needed fun in the sun time!  Hope your all having a fun Winter too and staying well.  We've had our bout of sickness and we're happy to all be healthy now!

Merry Christmas to All!

Merry Christmas everyone!  We had a good one and yes, Santa did find us.  We spent Christmas home with both of our Families this year.  We are so glad we were able to go home and see everyone.  I can't say there wasn't any craziness with it, there always is.  It gets hard for us to keep a good balance of time with both Families.  No matter how hard we plan ahead to make things easier for traveling for us we still end up going back and forth almost daily the whole trip.  But it was worth it for all the fun we had.  Some of the highlights besides spending Christmas Eve and Day with Family were going to Fantasy at the Bay(Willard Bay campgrounds) and Zoo Lights(Hoogle Zoo).  If you haven't been to see them you really got too, they are awesome.  Some of you know my Aunt and Uncle LeAnn and Sonny Gilbert.  They are the ones that put theses two events on.  They have created all the lights and lots of work it takes to run them, along with some help from Family and Friends.  We love to go to see it all and can't count the number of times we've been through Fantasy at the Bay anymore, it's become tradition to go a few times each Winter.  We also enjoyed a Cousins Christmas gathering from Nate's side of the Family.

This one is for Jerry.  He asked me to post our Christmas tree.  Here it is.  We have a tradition to cut our own Christmas tree.  We went with some Friends our Neighbors that live across the street from us this year.  We had a blast and are so glad we did.

Christmas Morning at Grandma and Grandpa Packers.

Cousins Party.

Zoo Lights!  As you can see my Dad trying to fix a strand of lights that were noticed out.  My parents stopped at every strand they saw out and fixed them, so LeAnn didn't have to make extra trips down just to do that.

As you can see we had quiet a crowd from all of my Family to Nate's Parents, it was way fun and we are so glad to have the memories of spending good time with Family!  We love you all, thanks for making this Christmas a wonderful one to remember always!

Jarvie Fest!

So Jarvie Fest is something that is put on by the BLM a few times a year.  It's held out at the John Jarvie Ranch which is a old Hideout for the OutLaws like Butch Cassidy, etc.  It sits along side of the Green River between the Border of Utah and Wyoming with Colorado not far from it.  Any way they hold an Old Fashion Christmas out there at the first of December so we went to check it out.

 

Santa comes in on a small boat to visit all the good Children.  He even leaves them with a small gift and candy cane.  Both Boys were amazed and asked Santa for a Robot with 5 buttons.

One of the activities they had were rubber gun target practice which they loved.

Another fun thing was rope making.  This had to be the Boys all time favorite activity and they were so proud that they created the ropes themselves.

Of course they had to have a stick horse race.  I don't think anyone actually won they just galloped around chasing each other.

We ended with a wagon ride pulled by 2 large Clydedale Horses they were just beautiful.  What a fun day that we think will become a tradition.  It didn't hurt that it was a gorgeous day and good weather with beautiful nature all around.  All the activities are free, run by Volunteers from the BLM.  They did have lunch available to purchase which was hotdogs, hot chocolate, pop, chips and cookies.  There were many other activities to do but so many we couldn't do them all.  We did make bird feeders out of pinecones, peanut butter and bird seed.  The Boys had fun with that too and we have reused the pinecones again to keep feeding our birds.  They do Jarvie fest in the Winter and again in the Spring or Summer.  It's defiantly something worth doing.  If anyone wants to make the journey out to visit we'll take you out there.

These are the times when I'm so excited for the memories made and being able to look back on that day and remember what fun we had spending time together as a happy family.