Family Snow Trip

Well I am now almost caught up on all the crazy stuff going on around the Merrill House.  However I have yet to post about our AWESOME trip with the Ellsworth Clan up to the snow.  I have been using my creative energy putting a book together as a thank you to Mom & Dad for making the trip possible and this is why I haven’t posted about the trip yet.  The book turned out pretty cool and is a great sum of how much fun we all had.  I did learn a good lesson while doing the book too. . .  We all need to be better at taking more pictures.  Sara did a really good job but Dan and I didn’t take a single picture.  Also there weren’t a ton of cool posed pictures for the book.  I pretty much used every good picture in the book and I think we could have used a few more.  Moral of the story: Take More Pictures!!

Mom and Dad rented a really nice cabin at the Brian Head Ski resort in Utah.  The cabin was big enough for each family to have their own bathroom and bedroom (Griffins, Ensign, Merrill, & Ellsworth).  We were pretty bummed that Danny wasn’t able to miss work to come on the trip but next time he better come.  The cabin was right on the ski resort and we were able to ski in and out of the property.  It was pretty neat to be able to come home for lunch.  Also in the morning when you were ready to get out on the slopes you could just get dressed and walk outside.  Pretty cool!!

Anyway here are some of the pictures to show how much fun we had:

Here is Dan and I at the top of one of the slopes.  We sure had a good time.  Dan & I recently bought our very own snowboards.  We are getting pretty good at the whole snowboard thing.  Too bad the season is already over and we have to wait until next year to do it again.

Samantha & Harrison are pretty good skiers but this time they wanted to try snowboarding.  They had a really good time in lessons for two days.

Joe came down from Provo to join us on the slopes.  We had a good time seeing him and we were a little jealous of his mad snowboarding skills.

Jonathan decided to snowboard on this trip as well.  He was got pretty good by the end.  In fact he was in lessons on the first day but he was so bored by lunch that he didn’t go back to lessons and stayed with the rest of us for the remaining of the trip.

These are two of my most favorite pictures of Trentten on the trip:

Here is Trentten at the top of Giant Steps.  He was an awesome skier and was fearless!!  But he did get a little tired. . . .

Here he is on the ski lift.  Isn’t that smile priceless?

When we weren’t out on the slopes we were playing in the snow:

Of course only Daniella is crazy enough to go out with no shoes on!!

I met a Devil Snowman while out in the snow.  Those tomato eyes were what gave him away.

Of course we had great food as well!  Here’s the cooking crew: