We were able to rent our friend Gina's families cabin. It was amazing being up in the mountains and being able to enjoy a White Christmas.
On Christmas Eve we drove up to Pinetop and had to dig our way to the cabin. It took us like 2 hours to dig through enough to park our cars.
Goldie and Jim were able to come up that night also and stay for a few days. It was great, we got the cabin running with water, and the heater, and a warm cozy fire.
It snowed, and snowed, and snowed. On Christmas day after opening gift we went out to play in the snow. It was awesome! Goldie, Jim, and I built snowmen. It was my first snowman ever!! Jim actually built a snow bear (for the Chicago Bears). It had ball cap and a big C on its chest. Matt built a big ice fort, with an ice chest for his snowballs and everything. Then after a long hard day of playing in the snow, we all got to catch up on a little sleep.
It was Ebby's first encounter with snow, and she LOVED it!! We had to keep her on a leash. She kept running away to investigate other animal smells.
We were going to go skiing the day after Christmas, but we were snowed in. After Matt and Jim spent about 3 hours getting stuck in the snow and trying every place in town for chains for my tires. They gave up and came back, were were able to use the 4 runner to get out and go to lunch and get some more food at the grocery store. Jim and Goldie were leaving that day to come home, so Matt and I had to prepare to hole up for a few more days.
Jim and Goldie tried to get out of town, and spent about 4 hours in traffic because of black ice, before turning around and coming back for one more night.
Matt and I had a wonderful Christmas in the snow, waking up to the snow falling, and being able to warm by the fire and make smores and hot chocolate. We were able to get out of the cabin after the finally came through and plowed the roads. We went sledding and had alot of fun. Got a little bruised up, and broke the sled pretty quick.
It was definitely a Christmas that Matt and I will always remember, even though were weren't able to go skiing.
Thanks Gina for letting us use the cabin!!
3 comments:
Thats quite a bit of snow! I cant believe it, and whats more wierd to me is that Matt is out shoveling in shorts and a t-shirt...didnt he remember where he was headed that night? haha. And is that El Rancho I see you guys eating at? You are cheating on me? I thought Rancho had a special meaning between us!! haha. jk. I'm definately jealous. Glad you guys had fun, and no worries...I couldnt even tell you how many sleds we have broken up there. Especially the plastic intertube ones.
how fun! even with being snowed in- it prob made for more memories than not! jim's bear was pretty cool!
What a great assortment of memories you made! I loved reading about your adventures....you can have as much of our snow that you want!
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