New Year Vacation

(This was actually posted by Laura, not Richard.)
Our new year was spent in Utah with my family. We had an enjoyable time once again, with good food and good company. Ethan enjoyed his cousins, and playing in the snow. Richard and I were able to make ourselves a Kubb game set out of some extra lumber my dad had around, using his workshop again of course. Kubb is a Scandinavian lawn game played with wooden blocks as you can see in the videos. It is a lot of fun, but probably better played on grass or sand or something. Richard and my sister Heather also built a huge snow slide in the backyard and the kids had fun on that. You don't see the final version, but it was quite nice once they were finished with railings at the top and everything. Richard also got to go snow-shoeing with Heather and my brother Matthew and his six year old son, Isaac. Other than those activities, we mostly just visited, ate food, watched a few movies, played marble works with the boys (a favorite), and played games late at night after the kids had gone to bed. The day before we came home, I went with my sister, sister-in-law, and my mother to the Park City outlets, and got some great deals on clothes for Ethan as well as some maternity clothes for me. It was very tiring, but it was worth it. The guys stayed home with the kids, so it was kind of a nice break for us. We came home Saturday, after getting a late start because our car wouldn't start, but it was surprisingly good weather the whole way.