Snow shoeing

Since we didn't buy ski passes this year, Mike had a goal to try cross-country skiing and snow shoeing.  On the Monday of Human Rights Day, we tried snow shoeing.  An added incentive was  that in the valley the temps were around 5 degrees and the air is soooooo dirty.  We don't love Cache Valley inversions.  However, it's great incentive to get up in the mountains.

We drove up Logan Canyon to a place called Wood Camp.  This is a trail we haven't ever hiked before. I want to go again in the summer.  It was shady in the parking lot, but we are ready to go.

This is our grouchy teenager.  You wouldn't know it from this picture, but he DID not want to be here.  He doesn't see the point of hiking.  I guess no outing at our point in life would be complete without a grouchy teenager.

Kenna could run in hers, but I couldn't.  The snow wasn't great, but I thought snow shoeing was very fun.

We finally got up into some sun.  It was so pretty up there and we got in some great exercise.  Chase and the girls also thought it was fun.  Might be snow shoes next year for Christmas.

Christmas

   We had the best Christmas.  Mom and Dad came the Sunday before and we took of to see the lights on temple square.  We hadn't taken our kids before, even though it's right in our backyard.  Dad took tons of pictures.

 These are just two of my favorites.  After, my kiddos said it was one of their favorite things about Christmas.  It was even warm.  But that night, all they kept saying was how hungry they were.

                              We stopped at In and Out Burger on the way home.  Good stuff

                                               Great Christmas morning, even for the teenagers.

 The best part of the day was we got to go sledding and we had our own photographer with us!  Last year, Katelyn got a sled for Christmas and we didn't get enough snow for her to use it.

 The funny thing is, this storm is the only one so far that had enough snow.  We couldn't go sledding now.

                                                   Kenna didn't really like sledding.

                                              Con and Chase were trying to have the best jump

                 Kenna was so mad at Mike for making her go down, she was waiting with Grandma to get him with a snowball.

                                          There were a couple of crashes, but no one was hurt

And we end with my Dad's favorite picture.  At least I went down the hill.