Wolf Creek Christmas

The week we had planned for and waited for for 2 years finally arrived near Christmas 2010.
We had booked a lovely home in Eden, Utah, near the Wolf Creek Ski Resort for five days to spend with 27 of our most favorite people in the world.  Our kids arrived from Washington, Arizona, Utah and Alaska to spend the holidays with each other. Here are some random pictures of our memorable time together.

The Broekmans
Davis, Tate, Holland, Brady
Natalie and Dave

The Abneys
Jane, Lindsay, Austin, Kate and ?

The Palenskes
Addison, Ainsley,
Jared, Emily, and Avery and ?

The Chans
Tanner, Ashton, Dallin
Allison and Aaron

The Emigs
Tyson, Fiona, Jack, Carolina
Cali, Grace, Joey

The Grandkids

Future Snowboarders
Kate, Addie, Avery and Holland

The tiny ladies shared many meals together on these stools.

And the boys enjoyed dinners with a view out of the totally glassed in dining area.

Boy cousins playing in the beautiful snow
Jack, Tanner, Ashton, Brady

The cousins played a Get Reacquainted with your Cousins game where they were blindfolded and had to figure out who the cousin was with only 2 spatulas!!  It was a hoot!

Five giggling girl cousins all snuggled in a bed!
Holland, Carolina, Addie, Avery and Grace

The boys spent lots of hours on the Wii together

The tiniest cousin, Tate Joseph, practiced his crawling skills.

Joey made some amazing pancakes when it was his turn to cook breakfast

Poppy is at the bottom of this dog pile, and loved every minute of it

My Brady Bear

Jared and two sweet girl cousins....Ainsley and Fiona

 Dr. Aaron kept us technologically and chiropractically tuned up

Dave and Tate had some good Daddy Time

L

My sweet boy, Dallin

My brown-eyed Addison

Avery and Kate shared lots of secrets and projects.
They agree that Arizona and Alaska are way too far apart.

Donkey-earred Lindsay and Allison with Natalie's Tater Tot

After the kiddos were put to bed each night, the adults pulled out all the games and played into the wee hours. I'm not sure what Joey was charading as, but ya have to admit, it's pretty good form.

Luckily for us, Chunk and Sandy showed up one night with lots of treats and played games with us.
Thanks for coming up, you two. We had such fun with you!

The family room area.

Emily and her sparkling smile...and Ainsley with her nootsie!

Little Jane doing her talent on Christmas Eve.

The melee that was Christmas Morning
Oh, my goodness.

To share or not to share---that is the question.
Ainsley and Fiona

Love that Ty guy

There seems to have been a lot of "team checking" going on

My beautiful Emily Ann

The beginnings of a great snowman

My ice-blue-eyed Jack

Holland's talent on Christmas Eve

A sweet song from Ashton for his talent

Game time for the adults--we LOVE this time together

Oh, that Ashton

A real snow angel...Carolina Jones

Addie did a trick for her talent

Part of the gang watching "Elf"

We had an "Elf Yourself" of each family. Here is Gramy and Poppy.
For some reason, my head wasn't really hooked on. It was a hoot.

Chilly CC

Avery played a beautiful song for her talent

Some pretty darling elves

We made some fun projects during the week, including reindeer for our Dads and soap for our Moms.

17 little eleves lined up to see what Santa had left downstairs.

Tyson and his new jersey

Miss Fiona was pretty overwhelmed by it all

Avery by our little Christmas tree
Uncle Aaron brought his very cool train for us

Emily organized a puppet show for our Nativity presentation. Everyone had a special part to appear from behind the couch.  It was a great show.

The cast of characters for our Nativity Presentation.

Our Family. Thanks to all of you for making this one of the happiest times of my life.