This Christmas was awesome in so many ways! First of all, it was our first married Christmas and the first time we got to spend the holidays together!!! It was so great to actually spend that special time of year with each other :) It was also fun because we got to see both families!
In Bend, we had a great time visiting, eating the great meals Scott's mom would cook, helping cook, skiing and snow shoeing! I haven't been skiing very many times in my life so I'm definitely a little rough around the edges, but the second day we went was WAY better than the first day, so there's hope for me! Scott started snowboarding in middle school and has only done that since. He decided he would try skiing again for fun the second day we went and it was like he'd never stopped! I was a little jealous :) Summer was nice enough to stay on the easy slopes with me and the boys would alternate going with us and then going down some crazier runs.
Snow shoeing was also a ton of fun... and totally exhausting! Long story short, Chris (my brother in law) is in better shape than most people I know and Scott and I definitely couldn't keep up! We were ready to be done at mile 3, exhausted by mile 5, and barely standing when we finished around mile 7, haha. It didn't help that it snowed the entire time and Scott's clothes weren't waterproof! But, we got some beautiful views and it was great exercise!
We had a great Christmas eve dinner that Linda, my mother in law cooked, went to a Christmas eve party that some of their friends throw every year for all of the parents whose grown children are not around, and had a really fun time opening up presents together! They were so wonderful in welcoming me to the family for my first Christmas with them :)
Side note- I'm going to throw myself under the bus, because this was actually really funny- One morning while Summer and I were helping cook breakfast, I was put in charge of getting half of the ingredients for the cinnamon, apple pancake into the blender and then blending it. So, I go to work putting all of the ingredients in - eggs, a pinch of this and a dash of that (which in itself is stressful to me because I tend to overanalyze - like a big pinch? Or a little pinch? Is a dash just a splash, or a little bit more like a pour? So, finally when I get all of the ingredients in, I can't find part of the top to the blender. We look around for awhile and can't find it, so Linda stuffed some aluminum foil in the middle of the top for a make shift top. Scott comes over to help me blend and there's this weird sound... we start it again, still the weird sound... and that's when we realize that I have put all of the ingredients in ON TOP of the top of the blender... WOW!! :) So, we all got a pretty good laugh out of it to say the least.
Here are some pics! (I have a TON more pictures, but my memory card is broken :/ Hopefully I can take it in and get it fixed and post other pics later!)
In Bend, we had a great time visiting, eating the great meals Scott's mom would cook, helping cook, skiing and snow shoeing! I haven't been skiing very many times in my life so I'm definitely a little rough around the edges, but the second day we went was WAY better than the first day, so there's hope for me! Scott started snowboarding in middle school and has only done that since. He decided he would try skiing again for fun the second day we went and it was like he'd never stopped! I was a little jealous :) Summer was nice enough to stay on the easy slopes with me and the boys would alternate going with us and then going down some crazier runs.
Snow shoeing was also a ton of fun... and totally exhausting! Long story short, Chris (my brother in law) is in better shape than most people I know and Scott and I definitely couldn't keep up! We were ready to be done at mile 3, exhausted by mile 5, and barely standing when we finished around mile 7, haha. It didn't help that it snowed the entire time and Scott's clothes weren't waterproof! But, we got some beautiful views and it was great exercise!
We had a great Christmas eve dinner that Linda, my mother in law cooked, went to a Christmas eve party that some of their friends throw every year for all of the parents whose grown children are not around, and had a really fun time opening up presents together! They were so wonderful in welcoming me to the family for my first Christmas with them :)
Side note- I'm going to throw myself under the bus, because this was actually really funny- One morning while Summer and I were helping cook breakfast, I was put in charge of getting half of the ingredients for the cinnamon, apple pancake into the blender and then blending it. So, I go to work putting all of the ingredients in - eggs, a pinch of this and a dash of that (which in itself is stressful to me because I tend to overanalyze - like a big pinch? Or a little pinch? Is a dash just a splash, or a little bit more like a pour? So, finally when I get all of the ingredients in, I can't find part of the top to the blender. We look around for awhile and can't find it, so Linda stuffed some aluminum foil in the middle of the top for a make shift top. Scott comes over to help me blend and there's this weird sound... we start it again, still the weird sound... and that's when we realize that I have put all of the ingredients in ON TOP of the top of the blender... WOW!! :) So, we all got a pretty good laugh out of it to say the least.
Here are some pics! (I have a TON more pictures, but my memory card is broken :/ Hopefully I can take it in and get it fixed and post other pics later!)
On the slopes!
Group 1 - when we're all still feelin' good (poor Doug, my father in law, had just had a knee replacement surgery, and wasn't able to do a whole lot, but was a total trooper going out to eat and stuff!)
I look like a boy, haha, but the scenery is great!
Scott's make shift waterproof shoes - they lasted about 1/4 of the way :/ And yes, those are garbage bags on his feet.
Off roading :)
It snowed the WHOLE time, which made it beautiful, but like walking in sand!
Brother shot
Somewhere in the back of this pic is a waterfall - we almost made it all the way :)
When the skies finally cleared the second day of skiing!
Oops, they're out of order - Group shot 2 during showshoeing
More scenery from snowshoeing
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