December 2021

Maya played school basketball this year.  She really enjoyed it and improved so much!

Gabi's team won the Conference championship!

Lots of our friends got together at Joe's office to have hot toddies and watch the Christmas parade and fireworks!  Super fun night!

Completed Home Alone house!

Oscar is getting so big!  It always cracks me up when he lays like this.  :)

Oscar loves to ride in Jacob's sled.

Maya loves to sing with her friends...they sang "Little Drummer Boy" for the Holiday concert.  Gabi was supposed to accompany them, but it isn't possible to play the snare drum with one hand.  :(

Maya put fairy lights all around the spiral staircase in the cabin and up in their loft.  It is fun!

Trying out our new heated blanket at the cabin.

Even the cabin got a Christmas tree.  :)

Before we left for Christmas in Colorado, the kids opened a few presents - mostly those that they bought for each other.

Our Christmas tree was knocked over by the cat a couple of days before we left, so we just took it all down and wrapped lights around our Nativity and presents.  It worked!

The girls got Joe WyomingOpoly...they love to play him in monopoly.  Gabi has beat him a couple of times, but both Maya and I have yet to accomplish that.

All kids got new personalized sports bags!!  Go Bison!

We had 5 days off of school before we left for Colorado, so Maya kept herself busy baking cookies to take with us!

Headed out with a car full of presents!!

Ready for Church....Papa Gary played guitar at the Christmas Even Mass.

After church and dinner...getting ready to open presents!!

We enjoyed the nice weather and luckily the kids brought their scooters to get some exercise in!

Our friends from Montana came to visit us after Christmas.  Always fun to see them! :)

Jacob & Briggs

We celebrated Christmas with the ranch family.

Cousin Fun!

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

November 2021

We celebrated Papa Dave's Birthday in November.  :)

Pyramid of cousins!

Gabi with some basketball buddies before a school dance

Vet's Day assembly

Sledding at the cabin :)

We started a new tradition for Thanksgiving!  We bought the Lego Home Alone House (4000+ pieces) and spent time as a family putting it together.  It was super fun and we enjoyed playing with it all through the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.

Gabi dislocated her right shoulder while playing basketball in PE class.  She ended up losing the function of her radial nerve for about a month.  Her PT outfitted her with this special brace to go along with the isolation sling.  She was very upset about having to miss the rest of her basketball season.

We had a quiet Thanksgiving here.  We made lots of food and took it over to Joe's grandparents house to all celebrate together.  I'm bummed that nobody took any pictures.  It was quite the feast!  After Thanksgiving, we found a Christmas tree and spent a little time at the cabin.  I forced my family to take some family pictures.  :)  There isn't much snow on the mountain so far this year and we enjoyed the mild weather.

Jacob loved to help me decorate the tree!

It was even nice enough to do some kite flying!

Hudson and Rocky waiting outside the bathroom door for Maya to get out of the shower...so they can follow her around some more.

Jacob wanted to sleep the other direction in his bed so he could see our Christmas lights out his window.  :)

Some pics I took for Joe's parents' Christmas card.  The "weight" is over!