Fresh Air

In the valley we experience a horrible thing during the winter months called an inversion. The high pressure in the upper atmosphere holds down all of the bad air until we have a lovely smog hanging around every day all day. The only way to get around the ick is to go up into the mountains and enjoy the fresh air. We have been pretty lucky to only have a week or so of the smog this winter, but it is still gross and makes it hard to breath. We decided to go for a drive up the canyon to get our clean air. It was georgeous up there. We love Snowbasin, so we went up there to watch people ski and enjoy the sunshine and blue sky. When we got there all the lots were full, but we managed to find a spot to park. They have a fun tubing hill. We sent Emma down just once to the tune of $5 each ride down. She had a great time though and we hope to go spend a day up there letting her go up and down the hill till she's ready to fall over. We had a great time there, looked into lessons for Emma, it costs about $65 for a 2 hour lesson and $15 to rent equipment. A little much for us to afford right now. A full day lift pass costs $68 dollars, we considered Miland getting a lift pass and teaching her himself, but they recomend getting the lessons.

Anyway, it was a good afternoon! We can't wait to go up there again!

Bubbles bubbles everywhere!!

Ever wonder how they get so may bubbles in the tubs to cover the actresses in the movies? I know one way. All you have to do is but a lid full of bubble bath in the tub and turn on your jets... before you know it you have 10 inches of bubbles on top of the water and children getting lost in them. The girls thought that it was a great thing and now want to take the super bubble bath all the time. (it takes forever to wash all the bubbles down, so I don't recomend it unless you have half an hour to wash the tub out after)

Ahh... a New Year!

We had a New Years party that was going to be a few people to play games and hang out (by few people... I mean Gary and Dana and fam, as well as my mom and dad). Well, turns out that a few others had no plans for the night so we just kept inviting and ended up with 22 people at our house! We had a blast! We ordered chinese food from Dragon hill and it was yummy! I was afraid that we would not have enough food, but we had so much left over that we have been eating it for four days. We played games ate tons of junk and had a great time. We still can't believe that 2008 is over. We are grateful for all that we have, for our jobs, for our health and for our family and friends. We are so glad that we were able to fill our house with so much love with our family and friends. We only hope that 2009 will be better than the last year!