My brother Sid lives in Hawaii with his family. With an average of 85 degrees in Hawaii, we were exactly 100 degrees colder in Jackson Hole today. Here is a photo I took this evening about 100 feet from our house. It did warm up to zero degrees by the time we were done with church at 2pm. Which is another big deal for the new year...our ward no longer starts at 8:30am! That was even earlier than school. We never seemed to get to church on time without A LOT of arm twisting to get our kids out of bed, dressed and ready. Today was a much more peaceful experience getting ready for church.
Christmas seemed to come and go way too fast again this year. A few highlights were: 1. Going to see Santa come to Jackson Town Square the day after Thanksgiving for the lighting of the Town Square (Sam asked for a pet reindeer...he didn't get it, too bad); 2. Going to see the play "Scrooge" at the local Center for the Arts with the kids; 3. Going to a Christmas Concert by "Loose Ties" (a very talented local Bluegrass Band); 4. Going to the memorial service for one of my young patients who died. It was held at the local Presbyterian Church. It was sad but very uplifting and moving...an experience I will never forget. 5. Cutting down our own Christmas tree up Red Creek (about 20 minutes from our house). It only cost us five dollars! 6. Making gingerbread houses, Christmas breads and cookies, and taking them to friends. 7. Going to Salt Lake and staying at Liz's parents for Christmas Eve/Christmas morning (and staying up all night trying to put together a stupid wooden doll house Santa gave to Ella that had the WORST instructions ever). 8. Having our kids on "autopilot" for a week while they were totally entertained by their cousins. 9. Going to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's Cabin in Brighton on Christmas Day...more fun and more cousins! 10. Skiing with the kids at Solitude. 11. Having Jeremy and Amy and family (Lizzie's brother's family) come up and visit us for New Year's...we stayed up all night playing "Ligretto" (an Italian card game...order it on Amazon). 12. Resolving for the New Year to up date our blog more often...let's see how long that one lasts!
Happy New Year to all our friends!
4 comments:
Cousins are great aren't they? We also visited family between Christmas and New Years and the kids had the best time just playing with their cousins.
I'll believe #12 when I see it. :)
Ligretto, eh? Sounds fun:) BTW Nate plans to email you Adam, but doesn't have your latest email address. He ants to come out there to Jackson and rotate this coming August....Anyhow, 100 degree difference or not, the photo was absolutely stunning and it sounds like you enjoyed a really wonderful Holiday season. We miss you guys!
Sounds like you had a great time over the holidays. Makes me sad we live so far away from our family. Our kids don't get to see their cousins very often.
Ok, we seriously had so much fun with you guys. I would have to say its on the top of my highlights for the holidays. PS. Jeremy really regretos that he doesn't have ligretto
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