The picture to the far left is the sweet warm home that we came back to sunday night. It had snowed quite a bit and we had to break a path to get to our door. What a bite of reality! What should have been a 14 hour ride home turned out to take over 20 hours. Yuck! As if I wanted to come back anyway!

This next piccture was something Cody and I found rather funny. It's art don't you know. There was an outdoor sculpture exhibit outside of the Tar Pits and we thought this cement square collection was especially thought provoking. Fittingly it was named "Title Unknown". Oh artists! What will they think up next?

The last picture is what my wonderful husband got me for christmas. It's a potters wheel! And I love it! We just busted out the clay today and I even made a vase. Cody made something too though we're not sure what to call it. Thanks mom and Dad for putting us up at your house. We had a blast!

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This is the promised video of the super bouncy horse ride that Cody and I went on. The horses haven't been riden in months and were anxious to remind us whose really in charge. We had a blast!

Here are some pictures of all of us in the woods getting christmas trees. Luck was with us and it acutally snowed a bit as we were going up so we could make some snow men and drink some hot chocolate. It took Cody and I an hour to find just the right tree and it was only $5 . What a steal huh? Colin and Alexis came along and kept us all entertained. Especially when I went to take a picture of Colin and I told him to look at me so instead of pulling up his hat he just raised his chin up as high as it would go.

This picture shows an all time tradition of the brower family of sledding behind the truck. It usually works better with more snow (or so I've been told). I'm looking forward to trying it again with less rocks next time. :) In the picture it's kaylee on the closer sled and Cody bringing up the rear. Up above is Landon and Alexis ploting the ambush of the unsuspecting colin. Poor little guy!

For thanksgiving Cody and I went to Bear Lake to be with family, ride some horses and cut down a tree to put in our house. All three of those events turned out great. Cody and I started things out right with an amazing thanksgiving dinner hosted by Grandma Brower (thanks everyone for putting that on!) and then Cody and I headed back to Bear Lake to go on a horse back ride the next day. I've got some pictures from it and a very bouncy video I took from horse back. All in all the horses were wild, too fast, to bull-headed, and too much fun. I'm still sore.

That cute white horse in the back next to cody in the picture with a bunch of other horses is our Bean. We actually got her to let us come up and pet her- showing that all of our summer work wasn't a complete loss. After the horse ride Cody and I went to play a relaxing game of hand and foot with the Brower Clan and it was the worst game ever. Out of all 5 rounds of the game I did not once get into my foot and as a result me and Codys team got slaughtered by Dad and Kaylee. Cody and I had to take a walk afterwards just to calm down. I hate fate!