New Year B.B.Q

The ringing in of the New Year continues. Another celebration of the year to come and Birthday's. It was a beautiful warm Saturday and Mark our BBQ guy arrived at 5:30 A.M to start his custom smoker and get the meat going. It was a all day event complete with horse shoes , DJ and games for the kids. The turn out was great about 70 people came to celebrate and eat , and eat we did all the food was great. Mark competes in BBQ competitions and this was a practice round for his next event, if you ask me the way it turned out I think he's definitely got first place! What a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon! 

Our Winter Trip to Pinetop

Jacob and I just got back from the mountain's , what a wonderful trip! We left Sunday the 28th and picked up my Mom on our way up. Dad and Darius would come up Wednesday after his hockey game and came back Sat Jan 3rd. The mountain's had got hit hard with a big winter storm over Christmas. The roads had been opened and in much better condition that they had been so the ride up was good.  The weather was beautiful, warm during the day and cold at night. The boy's played outside all day everyday. We had a nice snow bank on the hill in front of the cabin and we made several sledding runs as you'll see from all the pic's. Jacob and I started a snow fort on Monday and Darius, my dad and Jacob finished it on Thursday. The boy's had so much fun! It's so nice to get the boy's together. When I asked Jacob what his favorite part  of the trip was he stated " having the Family together". He was absolutely right. Of coarse Tim , Jaimee, Mike and Joe were missed. Thanks to Mom and Dad for making our week extra special.