Snowshoeing at the Cabin

Darin and I took the kids for a day trip to our cabin.
We also took my cousin, Blake, and his girlfriend, Ashley.
By the end of the trip his girlfriend was his fiance!!

Here is a little video of the fun day!
(The end of the video shows the proposal...and spoiler alert...she says YES!)

Gunnerson Christmas Party

Rick and Olivia planned THE BEST Christmas party EVER!

We went up to Woodland and Olivia made us a delicious breakfast!

Then, we went sledding, and we had a lot of fun!

I still can't get over how beautiful it was up there!

Tom and his cute girlfriend, Judi!

Lovely Olivia!

The hill we went down was HUGE!!  Matt did NOT love that part!

Olivia and Liv.

Judi was a really good sport, this was her 1st (and probably last) time!

I went down then dove off half way down the hill, it REALLY was HUGE!

Even Grandpa went down!

I love this beautiful meadow at the bottom.  

And if you look close, you can see dad Gunnerson crashed at the bottom.

My dream boat!

Grandma and Breanna went down too!  They took quite a tumble!

Olivia brought some yummy hot chocolate for everyone!  What a treat!

Matt had fun wrestling with Eli.

Isn't this so pretty!

Andrew thinks he is big enough to go snowmobiling!

Look at this beautiful little Scarlet Quinn!  So cute!

The whole family!

Our little family.  Don't mind me, I'm just looking for Andrew's boot!

Towards the end, Andrew got a little cold and grumpy.

He was much happier in the warm car watching a show.

After sledding, we went back to Rick and Olivia's for a yummy lunch, visiting, and games.

Thanks Rick and Olivia for planning such a WONDERFUL party!!

Temple Square

The Christmas Season is never complete without a trip to temple square.

We went and we LOVED it!

(And you'll notice that there are significantly more pictures of Lindsay than Matt. 

Matt's going through a "don't take my picture" stage....at least I HOPE it's just a stage.  

Lindsay, on the other hand, is in a "take my picture 6,000 times stage. Funny girl).

Snow-Cream!

 We got a fresh new batch of snow today!

And with that snow we decided to make some snow ice-cream!

First, we went outside to collect our fresh clean snow...

(minus the fact that I didn't think about the yucky air).

Then we added the other ingredients, and topped it off with a "few" sprinkles.

My sister-in-law, Jadi, shared this recipe on her blog, HERE.  Thanks Jadi!

Here is the recipe:

1 c. milk

1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. sugar
4-6 cups clean snow, unpacked

Mix all ingredients together and add more snow as needed. (We used used less milk and more snow).
Top with chocolate chips, sprinkles or any other ice cream topping you desire.

After our ice-cream we headed back out to "paint" the snow, using food coloring and water.

Snow!

We’ve received so much snow the last two days!

More than two feet, and once it gets shoveled, the piles get pretty high!

Darin has been doing a lot of this lately:

And our neighbors have been doing a lot of this for us lately:

But today, we took a break from the work the snow brings, and played!
Darin made this fun snow cave!

Then we did some sledding down the driveway!

And then we got too cold.

So we came in for some hot chocolate!