Monday, February 18, 2008

Dunns Come To Town

Our best buddies from California, Dane and Allie Dunn, came to Utah for our annual snowmobile trip. However, we didn't get to do it last year seeing how I was 9 months pregnant. Allie came alone to visit Nathan two weeks after he was born. The kids also were looking forward to the visit so they could play with Autumn and Carson. Autumn is exactly two months, to the day, older than Gracie and Carson is four weeks older than Tyler. Gracie kept telling everyone that her cousins were coming to town. They might as well be since Allie is like my sister.
This year we decided to go to Strawberry Reservoir for snowmobing. We certainly were not lacking in the snow department. In fact, it was a little too much snow. We got the snowmobiles stuck a few times because of all the powder. We finally decided it was just not possible to go anywhere off the main trail.
Many thanks to my niece Kiera for taking on the frightening task of watching all five children for the day. Marty and I have decided we better give her a break for a while or she will disown us as family.
The four of us on our way out the door.
The rental shop also had gear you could use. I saw these snazzy little
coats and knew it was a picture moment (I think I have seen that exact
coat in my mother's closet). When you include the head socks and scarfs,
we look like some seriously sexy Arab women.


All geared up and ready to go.
Dane, Allie, Katrina, Marty


The girls looking pretty while watching the boys dig out
the snowmobile buried in 5 feet of powder!


The boys taking a quick break after their hard work.



Marty, trying to read the map to get back, but it was
halfway covered in snow.


Katrina and Marty standing at the top of the mountain.
It was a beautiful day "total bluebird" as we learned from Jeremy.
However, it was rather windy, but nothing like what was to come a week later.


This is a yield sign on the side of the road. There was so much
snow up there you could only see a couple inches of the top.



Allie & I sitting on top of a giant pile of snow.



Me, reinacting a graceful fall which occured moments earlier while
running down the giant hill we were just sitting on.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

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Lindsay said...

How FUN! I read your Blizzard post and about fell out of my chair with recurring anxiety attacks... that was such a rotten day! Thanks for commenting, I've been meaning to get your blog address... Hooray! xoxoLindsay

Ash said...

This looks like you guys had so much fun. I can't believe that sign, its completely covered. Wow. We have gotten so much snow this year. Summer and tennis sounds good to me. Glad you got to enjoy it.

Unknown said...

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I printed mine from our home printer (I got a nice one for Christmas) then just slipped them into page protectors and put them in a three ring binder. Nothing too fancy. Maybe a print shop could actually bind it for you. I'm not sure though. Good luck.
Christie