Christmas Visitors

On December 17th, we traveled to Bozeman to pick up Grammie and Poppie at the airport. They flew in from Seattle, where they stayed with family for a couple of days before flying here. Since they are from Florida, they had a long flight from there to Seattle. After we picked them up, we went grocery shopping. Why go 83 miles without going to Costco?! When we got home, Dad instantly built a fire because they were freezing. Going from 70 degree weather to 20 degree weather is a big change!

Sitting down to the iPad after a long drive back. 

Breakfast.

Our tree! :)

What happens when the boys try to catch a mouse....

A pretty frosty morning.

We accidentally left a mouse trap under the table while trying to catch one and when Poppie sat down....look how close it was to getting his toe!!

Horses across the river.

We saw Bighorn Sheep on the way to Chico.

 Chico Hot Springs!

We ate at the Chico Grille after swimming. We were starving!!

Reading with Poppie.

Making BBQ Chicken Pizza! Yummmmmmmmm....

What us Roberts' find at Goodwill...;)

More horse pix.

Another frosty morning.

Playing at the Mammoth gym with the Bierle's.

Driving through Yellowstone.

I put Tilly in all of my winter gear...hehe!

The Burke's Christmas party. Chocolate fountains were the hit!

German Pancakes. Kind of looks like two little pancakes exploded in the oven. :)

Grammie and Poppie have Gone-Tana!

Playing Settlers of Catan on Christmas Eve.

....Tilly drew instead. :)

Emma, Libby and I at the Christmas Eve service in the Mammoth Chapel!

Christmas Tree Hunting

After buying our $5 tag from the Forest Service, we set out on a mission to find a Christmas tree in Yankee Jim Canyon. With seven different opinions, it took us three hours. Yes, three hours!!! Our outcome at the end of the day was a pretty good tree and seven exhausted people. We set it up in the living room and decorated it with the lightest ornaments we had, because the branches weren't that strong. The three hours that it took to find a good one was really worth it because we had a fun time hiking around!

Mom is holding a can of bear spray! We saw a fresh elk leg under a tree and we got out of there quickly...

The boys are standing by the old road, blasted out of rocks.

Six inch tree anybody?

Hiking around...

Inspecting an option.

This cool old rock had an advertisement from the early 1900s! We were on the old railroad bed.

We found the one! Six inches above the stump, 100 feet away from the water and under 12 feet tall!

Dragging it up the hill.

We made it fit up there...:)

It fits perfectly!

 Decorating the tree...