Idaho!

We went to Ashton Idaho over President's Day Weekend to visit Gichin's grandma Marsden and other family. We left Friday afternoon and rode up with Tyler in his new truck. Tyler was very excited about his new diesel four-wheel drive truck, and wanted to try it out before we went to Grandma's. So he decided to take a side road, that had never been plowed. We made it up and over the small hill made from plowing the main road and got stuck! It was hilarious, at least for me and Gichin! After about 20 minutes or so, a nice man, whose house we had gotten stuck in front of, came and pulled us out with his truck.

Saturday morning we went to watch the sled dog races they have every year. We were surprised to that most racers had scrawny mutts instead of the pretty husky type dogs you always see in movies. I guess they get the job done though. The longest race was 100 miles round trip. I can't believe the dogs can pull for that long. A cute little 6 year old raced the 4 mile round trip.



Saturday night we went to a shrimp social with Gichin's cousin Jordan and his wife Annie, that their Elders Quorum did. There was all kinds of shrimp and it was very tasty.

It snowed on Sunday so we had to make a snowman. Any Calvin and Hobbs fans will appreciate our masterpiece (notice the grenade in his hand!). It was Gichin's first time making a snowman and he was very proud.



Monday morning we went snowmobiling. We rode up to Horseshoe lake where we went camping last fall. I couldn't believe how much snow there was, at least 4-5 feet! The snow was so deep and powdery that Tyler (pictured below) got his snowmobile stuck at least 4 feet in the snow.
Gichin and Tyler were quite tired by the time they got it out, from sinking to their thighs every time they would move.

Here's me standing on the lake that was covered with 4-5 feet of snow.

Look close and you can see the top of a sign that is almost completely buried in all the snow. I told my little sister Dani that she would have been completely buried standing in the snow!

It was so beautiful and nice to be up in the mountains. This is a picture we took along the trail to the lake.