Sleigh Ride and Dinner in a Yurt

All 15 of us were able to get together and do the Sleigh Ride and Dinner in a Yurt at Grand Targhee Resort. What a fun evening we all had.

Pictures in and around the lodge getting ready to leave.

We rode a sleigh pulled by large draft horses to this Yurt.  Then we were cooked a dutch oven and grill dinner. The food was amazing and such a fun placed to have a dinner.

All of us eating at the Yurt.

Oliver making snow angels in the snow when we got back to the lodge.
What a wonderful evening to all be together as a family.
Thank you family for coming!!!!!!

Barney's for Christmas

Caleb and Hillary opening gifts. You must have the traditional summer sausage or it is not Christmas.

Randy with Lily

Bear had to have Christmas gifts also.

Lily. The boxes were better than the gifts.

Hays's for Christmas

The Hays's came on Tuesday after Christmas to open gifts and spend a few days. Henry by the tree

Oliver and Ben working on a wooden car that Randy made.

Henry helping Melanie

Oliver

Melanie

Oliver

Cross Country Skiing at Harriman

Susan, Randy and Ashley Cross Country Skiing at Harriman State Park. Ashley keeps us going and active.

It was a beautiful sun shiny day again to play in the snow. The weather was ideal and the area was beautiful.

Ashley on the trail.

Small water fall.

A small stream in Harriman

On the way home we stopped at the Frostop in Ashton and ate some dinner. What a fun tradition.

Christmas Morning December 25, 2011

Ashley

Grandpa Landon

Randy
It was pretty quite at our house Christmas morning. No one got up very early and the 4 of us just opened our presents. You really miss small kids on Christmas morning.
We then attended church in our ward. I really enjoyed the program and enjoyed the true meaning of Christmas on Christmas morning. What better thing to emphasis than the birth of our Savior and all he has done for us.

Christmas Eve December 24, 2011

Holden and Keagan handing out gifts to be opened. It is tradition at our house to open the gifts from each other on Christmas Eve. Just the same as we use to do at Grandpa and Grandma Mortensen's and Grandpa and Grandma Ricks's.

Kinsley

Raquel, Kinsley, Keagan, Holden and Ashley

Kinsley

Raquel opening her new luggage

The boys liked getting into the large luggage and being pulled around.

Kinsley with Nexo bug set.

Grandpa Landon spent the holidays with us.

Ashley

Raquel, Holden and Jaxon

Life Nativity

Christmas Eve we went to the Ritchie's home to watch the Live Nativity. Kinsley, Jaxon, Holden, Raquel, and Keagan Landon. It was a little cold but fun to watch and was a really good reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.

Randy, Grandpa Landon and Ashley.

Deanna and Max Wade were there also.

Joseph and Mary and baby Jesus.

Some of the animals and actors.

Breakfast at Max and Deanna Wade's December 2011

We went with Jaxon's Family, Ashley and Grandpa Landon to the Wades house for the traditional Christmas Breakfast. It is always a great time.

The whole family helps. I am sure I missed a few pictures of the grand kids. But they all get involved.

Max and Deanna Wade, Travis and Melissa Wade, Chad and Rachel Wade, Abby and Chad Hurd, Adam and Mandy Hodges, Ryan and Angie Olsen