A Little Break

Scott's work sent him to a class in West Valley for the week so Ryver and I tagged along for a couple of days. I was so excited to just go and do nothing. I packed some cars and other toys for Ryver and a few movies. I had a book, actually two books. While Scott was gone during the day we slept in, played in the room, tried to do a little shopping and took naps! I think naps were my favorite part. We visited Walmart for lunch and Ryver splurged! Lunchable, strawberry milk, and powdered doughnuts were his big treat. What a mess! He is such a cheese ball starting to pose and say CHEESE really big. It was a nice short break/vacation for us all. Great to spend time with Scott and love having Ryver to entertain us both!

Doesn't he look pretty comfy, relaxed, and maybe a little spoiled?

After being in the hotel all day and only being able to run around so much-the swimming pool helped get some energy out. We had fun splashing around, and Ryver loves to jump from the side. We even got him to float, with some help, on his back.

Let It Snow and Have some FUN

Go Grandma!

Angie hanging on for her life!


Pictures of Grandpa going down, I think that picture was when he wondered what the heck am I doing! Sorry Grandpa Scott. He stayed face down in the snow for a few short moments.


I love this picture of Portia isn't she just such a cutie!

This is one of the trips down the slide. The only bad thing about the slide is walking the stairs. Ryver had issues with walking up the stairs at the begining so we had to assist him, wow we are out of shape. You can tell how bad it was snowing by the pictures!

Happy New Year-West Piney!

The Hayden family brought the year 2010 in with a bang! Okay, not really, we all struggled to stay awake New Years Eve! We may have gone to bed at 12:01 (JK)but we partied all day and night the rest of the time! Almost all of Scott's family came down to go to West Piney lodge. They all stayed here at our house for a night before journeying to the lodge. The weather was great going in and the road was plowed all the way to the lodge. The lodge is about 10 miles past Swan Valley. Everybody was pretty happy to not have to walk the mile in with all their gear.

We had tons of fun just sitting around talking, snacking, playing games, and relaxing. There were puzzles, bingo, ping pong, movies, and of course the Wii to help keep us entertained. Not to mention the forever slide and snow to have fun with.The slide is the real reason to go to the lodge.

New Year's day we woke up to 6 inches of new snow and it snowed all day long. It was a warm wet snow so it really wasn't bad to play outside in it. Ryver and Portia were one of the first to go outside and Ryver was the last to come in. There is nothing better than spending time with family.

Most everybody went down the slide at least once except Jake and Nicole, maybe next time! Grandma Kathy went once and that was enough for her. Grandpa Scott was a real trooper and even went down on our sled down the slide. That wasn't the wisest thing for me to have him do. It took him a minute to catch his breath and get up. We banned going down the slide with a hard sled after that. Angie was probably the funniest of them all. The first time she went down it took her forever to go like 5 minutes to talk herself into it. The next time it took even longer-no joke when I say 10 minutes. She was awesome and did go down with a death grip on the side of the slide.

The morning we left the cabin was such a site, I wish I'd taken pictures. There was probably a foot or more of snow and we all struggled getting our vehicles out of there to the main road. Our little green Honda car was stuck good. I had left it down at the bottom of the hill thank heavens! Scott's dad had to pull us out with tow straps to the main road. We all made it off the mountain in one piece. We came back to our house and had to plow our driveway out. We went to Big Judd's for dinner and then I think we were all in bed by 10:30. It was really fun to have the whole Hayden clan down and at our home. Hopefully by Thanksgiving we'll have the basement finished and have more room for everybody.