Lighting of the Tree

Camilla's Honor Choir was the entertainment for the annual lighting of the Boise State Christmas Tree at the Capitol. We drove downtown (in record time) found a parking space, listened to the entertainment, shook the hand of the governor had cookies, cider and even came home with a pile of free books that the governors wife was handing out.

It was a completely different experience than what we have been used to in DC. It was so nice to enjoy this great experience at a local level. I think that the kids loved it!

Sun Valley-Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful time in Sun Valley for Thanksgiving! It was so much fun being together with family! Thanks Slatter's for a great weekend!

The kids had a competitive game of bowling at the famous Sun Valley Lodge!





The bowling ally was very old school. Papa and Jace were the official score keepers

This was one of our few Thanksgivings that we have not hosted. Jason and I have cooked many Thanksgiving dinners. It was great to sit back and let someone else to the cooking! I think we had 35 for dinner!




We took the kids sledding too. It was freezing, but they had a great time!

We tried to take some family photos but most of the kids were not very cooperative.





Here we are trying to get a Family picture....
again and again.......
and again.......
Grandma & Papa with all the grand kids.....
We took a sleigh ride with the little ones....they loved the horse drawn sleigh ride.




Santa came downtown. We brought the little girls to sit on Santa's lap.


Our favorite activity was going ice skating. All the kids had fun skating. I remembered all my old tricks too.







What would a fun day skating be without a Slatter dare? Zach earned himself $20.00 bucks for skating around the rink without his shirt on!

We can't wait to go to SunValley again. It is such a great place to shop and play. We had a great weekend together as a family!