A trip to the Cabin

Valentines weekend my family took a quick trip up to our cabin in Lake Arrowhead. Brandon and I went up on Sunday morning. Before we went up there was a lot of talk of bad storms and how we would need chains and everything. Well we were lucky because the roads were nice and clear and when we got the cabin the snow was PERFECT! As soon as we got there the fun began! We were sledding down our favorite hill right next to the cabin.

The Girls at the cabin. Grandma Barlow came with us too.Dad started building a huge snow man!

By the time it was finished it was HUGE! When it was time to put the middle in the snowman it seemed impossible. Then dad gets this great idea and he lays down, we roll the snow ball on his back then as we all lift he starts to go up on his hands and knees! It was hilarious! But hey it worked!

Mom just modeling in the snow
Cassidy loved the cabin!!
And of course the tire swing is always a hit!

This is Brinley's good friend Robyn. She came with us too.

I love this face Brandon!

The funnest part of the whole trip was when we went night sledding! We took a few flashlights and went down the hill. We were dodging tree, some better than others. It was a blast! at the bottum of a hill we came to the road that was iced over. Because of the snow plow there were banks on both sides of the road. So we decided to sled down the road on our bellies. We looked like a bunch of penguins! It was so fun, when we would get to bottum of the road we would hike right back up to the top and do it again! don't worry it is a private road so we were safe.


At the end of our trip to the cabin we always sign the log and tell about all the fun things we did.

A trip to visit Grandma

When Tracy and the girls were in town we decided to go out and see Grandma Fye and the rest of the Family. We got to see Grandma and Jamie and her new little boy Christopher. It was lots of fun. He is such a good baby, he just smiled and slept.

Happy New Year 2009!!!!

This New year we spent the new year with the Navarro's! It was really fun. Brandon and I decided to come crash their party. We went over to their house and played Guitar Hero all night. By the end of the night Brandon was getting 100% on the singing portion. Now some of us who were there may beg to differ, but i don't know how the machine could be wrong. And lets face it i really sucked at it. But it was fun anyway.

Party Animals

After we hung out over there brandon and I came home and watch a chick flick. It was mellow, but a nice way to celebrate the new year.

Ginger Bread Houses

One night the Navarro's came over and we made some awesome ginger bread houses and ginger bread trains! It was cool because Brandon and i actually got to make the houses from scratch! Then we got to share it with them. Everyone was so creative!

Brandon and I made a train, Whats better than spending time with people you love and eating candy at the same time! It was a blast.

Brandon Brown's 25th Birthday

We had a little birthday party for my brother's 25th birthday

We played a white elephant game, it was really fun and those purple panties seriously got passed to pretty much everyone!

Look at all that smoke! man he is getting old!

Cutting Our First Christmas Tree

This year was the first year Brandon and I got a Christmas tree, not only was it our first Christmas tree, but we decided to chop it down our selves. So for starters we had to get a permit, then we went out hunting for the perfect tree.

We bought this little wanna be saw to chop the tree down.

So we took turns and I sawed for a while

Our tree was really pretty on the front, but as you can see the back side was completely bare. It worked out really well because it fit right up against the wall.

We were very proud!

Here it is all set up in our living room

This tree still has a much bigger, better story than just living in our humble apartment in Rexburg. We decided to bring the tree home to California to share with the family. So we packed it up in the back of Brandons truck and took it for a very long ride. The tree was well loved.