Snow Shoeing...Not Snow Hiking

We finally received some snow in the Mountains this week. In the valley it still feels like March with lots of rain, some heavy snow, and temps in the 40's. We took advantage and went up to Snow Basin to do some snowshoeing which turned out to be awesome, really snowy, wet, and a little cold.

Ashley was not able to make it on the adventure but Gavin did tag along with Jace and Lindsey. To protect Gavin from the very wet snow we put a poncho over him which did its job of keeping him dry. 

Jace at the summit. 

Lindsey obviously did not move her head much and you could see how much snow accumulated by the end of our hike. It was about 4-5 in., which means that Lindsey was mostly correct but never wrong.

Snow hiking and belated Christmas

I think Brent is a bit tired of me not making any posts on our blog and is not posting to make his point. I get it.  Here you go.

As you can tell from my previous post, we don't have much snow here in Utah. We haven't been doing any snowshoeing, but we have been on a few snow hikes.  Our latest was this past Monday up Mueller Park in Bountiful.  It was a nice sunny day and we had a couple inches of snow overnight so the trail was beautiful.

 I was thinking I should share a little bit of Christmas too because we had so much fun and so that people in our family could enjoy some of the pictures if they didn't get them from us already.  We had a genius plan for Christmas this year (okay, it was initially my mom's).  We had Brent's parents come from Yakima and spend Christmas with our family. It was great. The Lovell family is crazy and loud but I think they had a great time.  Some of the things we did included a BSU basketball game, letter boxing (like geocaching), walking along the Boise River, volleyball and basketball at the church, games, lots of puzzles, the nativity, eating, eating more, and a Christmas Eve family relay.  I've had a great time doing other relays like Ragnar and Epic, but this was a step above as we all donned our Christmas headgear, drank hot chocolate instead of water, and ran blocks around Combes Park in 1/2 mile legs with varying combinations of runners. You can see we had a great time with our race and with all our other activities. Mostly, I really just loved being with my family and my niece and nephews. I'm so grateful for all of them. 

                                              

                           

January 2012

BEST JANUARY EVER! I've been mountain biking everyday that I haven't worked this week If we're lucky Brent and I will get one more day in tomorrow before a bit of snow comes. I'll say it again, BEST JANUARY EVER!