Fogged in Bear Lake

Durring the winter, Bear Lake often gets fogged in with the mountains surrounding it, it needs to get some strong winds to blow it all away. These pictures are comming down out of Logan Canyon, the lake is under all the clouds. I thought it looked neat.

Ice fishing

One of our favorite things to do in the winter is to go Ice fishing. Jason got a new Ice hut for Christmas that holds 6 people!! It is huge, it sets up in about 1 minute. We had to try it out on Randolph Res. Bryce caught this fish.


Austin working the reel

It is really kind of neat to be able to look down in the hole.



Notice the nice heater, it keeps the hut toasty warm, sometimes we get too warm and start taking off our hats and coats!!

Bryce's Birthday

Bryce turned 11 on Jan 7, I can't believe how old my kids are getting!!
he got lots of science kits, and we went to the planatarium in Salt lake (his choice not mine) The kids had fun!! But I decided next time someone gives my kids gross and disgusting science kits, we will wait till we go to their house to play with it!!

Playing in the snow

My parents gave the kids some snow block molds, so they went out and tried to make a fort, but we really don't have too much snow, but they had fun being outside anyways, Misty even go into the action.

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas again this year. It started out on Christmas eve at the Annual Christmas Eve program at the church, then we came home and ate dinner and opened the pajamas, then Christmas morning was filled with ripping paper, and lots of fun. Later we ventured out and drove to Hyrum to spend the rest of the day with Grandma and Grandpa Petersen and Aunt Shelly even dropped in. we played games and opened more presents. We spent the night there, as a huge snowstorm came in we were a little worried if we would get out the next day. We knew the snow was comming, so we drove our little red toyota, wich does great in the snow, but we are quite crowded in it. Anyways as morning came, we checked the road reports, and with blue skies we decided to head up to Idaho Falls. The roads were on and off good and bad, we did see about 5 vehicles off the road, but I think most of them were from the night before. We made it to Idaho Falls, and enjoyed spending time with family. We again opened presents, and just had a good time visiting, and the kids had a ball playing the Wii, and playing with cousins. We had a hotel, so the kids had fun swimming at the pool, then we came back on Sunday, and today I am spending my time digging out of our suitcases. All in all, it was a great Christmas. I hope you all had a merry one too.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Twilight

So, my husband wasn't too thrilled about me wanting to drag him out thanksgiving weekend to go see Twilight, but he said he would go, (what a trooper), but on monday my friend Amanda called and said that she had seen it, but would like to go again, and they were showing it in Evanston, at 9:45 pm so we could go after the kids were in bed.

We decided to go, and we invited everyone we saw on tuesday, or tried to, it was so last minute, I am sorry if we didn't get to anyone who wanted to go, but we had about 12 ladies who went, it was so much fun just to get a night out with the girls, and watch the movie that we all enjoyed.

I loved it!! Of course, I tend to forget most of the book about a week after I read it, so I wasn't thinking about what was left out. Now I want to read the book again!

We decided that we need to do this about once a month (to keep our sanity) Girl's night out!!

If we missed you this time, but want to come next time, let me know!

Now I decided that I will try to drag my MIL and her sister to the movie on thanksgiving, I told Jason that him and his dad can take the kids to Madagascar! We'll see how it goes, but I definetley want to see it again!

2 a.m. Honking

Most people if they woke up at 2am to honking, and screaming would grab the phone and dial 911, but living in a small community, this happens hopefully a few times a year, and it happened again this weekend. No it was not Halloween parnksters out smashing pumpkins, or anything.
Here is the story...
I was sound asleep, and something woke me up, at first I thought it may have been our puppy needing to go out (she does that sometimes), but as I laid there trying to get my mind to work, I reallized it was honking and screamming!! I turned to Jason who must have been awoken also, and said "We must have took state" then I turned around and went back to sleep.
Yes, whenever one of our High School teams takes state, no matter how late they roll into town, they drive the streets in a caravan honking and screaming, usually starting with the bus and all the athletes, then followed by the fans (aka parents) they are hanging out the windows and screaming, and honking their horns letting everyone know that they took state!!
All in all, I don't think too many people mind, we are just used to it. It didn't even wake any of my kids!!

Congratualtions Coach Stuart and her volleyball team!!!

Good luck Coach Brown, we hope to be awoken again when you take state football!!