New Year's Eve

We went up to Payson Canyon and stayed at a Boy Scout camp lodge with family and friends again this year for New Year's Eve. We had tons of food and fun chatting and playing games. The girls had a blast running all over the lodge. I was especially excited to find that the floors weren't covered with Box Elder bugs this year. We slept on air mattresses and actually got a fair amount of sleep considering it wasn't our usual accomodations. We were lucky enough to put Sophie in one of the two side rooms for her sleeping. Otherwise NOBODY would have gotten any sleep that night.


We had a gigantic breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, breakfast burritos, cereal, and any leftovers you could pass of as breakfast food in the morning. Then everybody suited up for some time in the snow. They get a TON of snow in the canyon and it hasn't been used much so far this winter. (The Klondikes all start next month or so.) So there was a lot of powder to trip us up as well. I got a few pictures of the kids sledding - but it's a little tricky since they won't ever just sled slowly for the picture.

Sophie seemed pretty hesitant to walk in the deep snow. Here is where she was abandoned - don't worry, I went and got her.

Sophie didn't really enjoy her fun sled ride down the hill with daddy.

Luckily, she got over it by the time they made it back up the hill.

Abby did a little sledding, but it seemed like she spent a lot of time off on the side of the sled track eating snow.

Sophie and Tyler felt more comfortable lounging in the sled eating the snow off their gloves. Whatever keeps them happy, right?

Well, that was our New Year's Eve. We were glad to get home and sleep in our comfy beds. Being 8 months pregnant and attempting to get off of an air mattress doesn't really seem to mix well.