A pictureless Christmas

After a wonderful Christmas Eve Day, two family parties and lots of family Riley and I got the stomach flu. We were up all night. It was not an ideal way to spend Christmas morning. Therefore, there are no pictures! Benson's first real Christmas morning and we have no documentation. 

Luckily I made it upstairs to talk to Riley S. on the phone for a few minutes, then Riley and I were able to sit through present opening.... but not dinner :(

Poor us.

It was still a lovely day and we got several lovely gifts. Luckily the sickness didn't get in the way of us feeling the Christmas spirit. We are grateful for Jesus Christ and that we could celebrate his birth.

The weeks after christmas were filled with a lot of fun! I have pictures of that :)

We sat in the living room. Ha, ok, can you see the puzzle table behind benson? Mom, kate and riley spent a lot of hours on that. 

One of the highlights was going to the cabin. Riley and I hiked up for a night. It was BEAUTIFUL. Winter and mountains is incredible.  We were lucky enough to see a bald eagle fly over tibble fork and land on the top of a pine tree. can you spot him in the picture below?

We had planned to snow shoe but the snow was so packed down that it was easier to hike. 3 1/2 miles and took us less than two hours!

We took a lunch break and enjoyed the views.

I sure was happy to see this place again.  

Once we got up there we had to start the fire. It was freezing! But it warmed up soon enough. There was no gas for the generator so we had no electricity. And the water pipe was frozen so we had to melt snow. It was quite the adventure.

Fong.

They almost look like they are on a date! What cuties. This is pre-hadley-blow-out.

We also got to visit the MOA- Carl Bloch exhibit. Really amazing.

A few days later we flew home. It was very sad to leave everyone again. We sure miss seeing family so often! We have been very busy since we got back. One day we got Benson new shoes. Sweet kicks.  More posts to come.