Cabin Fever!

Every Christmas since I've dated Devin we have made it our Christmas tradition to travel to Moab and spend Christmas with the entire family! This year both Devin and I had to work on Christmas but have no fear because we still were able to participate in all of the Moab Christmas activitites, they just had to be pushed back a few days. (Thank you to our Moab family for accomodating our schedules, we are so glad we didn't have to miss a beat!) Upon arrival to Moab we had an amazing PrimeRib dinner, followed by white elephants gifts, and then normal gifts....great times. (For the white elephant I was lucky enough to get a belly button lint cleaner along with some real belly lint, thanks Chad!) We got some great gifts from the Daltons (decorations, a portable vacuum, and a FREEZER, yipppeee!!) and some awesome homemade gift from the Shepards. The next day we dropped of Otto at Karen's Canine Cabin (I have a taste for what dropping off our child at the first day of school will feel like, but hopefully their teacher won't have the same smell of cigarettes and alcohol) and headed to the LaSal mountains. We snowmobiled into the cabin but had to stay on the trail because the snow wasn't very deep. The next morning we awoke to this.... and this... (there are seven snowmoiles down there)and temperatures like this...

So the men had to dig out the snowmobiles...

So we could go sledding...

Chad, Kennedy, Macray, Andrew, and Larry Bear at the bottom of the sledding hill
Here I am with Payton, Macray, and Ean at the top of the hill...

and here we go....

At the bottom of the hill, Ryan was waiting in the snowmobile to drive us back to the top of the hill, that's sledding Ellis-style

When it got too cold to be outside anymore we moved the activitites inside to play.....Minute to Win It

It was a fun game AND a fun way to make fools out of ourselves! Case in point, me attempting to move and Oreo from my forehead to my mouth hands-free

Devin attempting to retrieve a penny from th bottom of these pantyhose...Breckin gave up and played his own game with the pantyhose

Britt, Nick, Kent and Chad shaking their cans to get the bouncy balls out of the tissue boxes...priceless!

Rubbing our noses with Vaseline to transfer cotton balls across the room...

Kent (my teammate Woot Woot!) fishing for marshmallows with a gummyworm...

Devin and Steph doing the Russian dance on the Just Dance 2 game for the Wii!...

Check out those moves...

After all of the playing, we did a lot of eating. Here's a big thank you to Joelynn for keeping 20 hungry hippos fed and then some!

After all the playing and eating we had some vegging out time...

And lots of this...

There's nothing better than spending the Holidays with family! See you all again at the cabin next year!