Every year it has become a tradition for our family to go out and find the “perfect” tree. So around this time of year we go and purchase a tree permit and usually head up to the cabin.

Saturday morning we awoke with some more snow as we went to eat breakfast at the Whistle Stop. After eating breakfast we headed back home to get ready for sledding. We all got our winter clothes on and headed to the golf course.

Farley loves to chase and bite at sleds for some reason. We don’t know why.

She loves playing in snow.

Took Annalise sledding a few runs, she didn’t know what to think of it.

Ava loves building things and playing in the snow

After sledding we headed out towards Warm Lake to the Boise National Forrest land to find a tree.

All the girls stayed in the car while Scott trekked through 2 feet of powder to hunt for a tree.

Finally after nearly 30 minutes Scott has cut the tree and has almost reached the car with tree in tow.

Got the tree all tied up, time to head back to the cabin to warm up

Annalise taking a nap on the way back

Some picture and movies to share from our family to yours

Annalise continues to get more interesting every day. She is a really happy baby and is always smiling and easy to get a laugh out of:

We got 7″ inches of snow this week, pretty cool to play in for Ava and Farley.

And Annalise is starting to eat real food. She is trying to win the Messy Mouth 2010 award.

I’ve been itching to go flying lately but every weekend seems like it has been overcast with fowl weather. Today we looked out the window and saw blue skies. It was a bit gusty but I asked Ava if she wanted to go flying and she responded with an enthusiastic “Yes!” so we reserved a plane for a few hours this afternoon and just flew around for fun and I did some practice landings to stay proficient.

I put Ava in the airplane (her first time in the front seat!), did the preflight, then we taxied for a few minutes and finally did an engine runup. We taxied up to the runway hold line, got clearance for takeoff, and Ava asked “Now can we fly, daddy?”. I said we are taking off now, here we go!

So we are on our initial climbout, and I look over at Ava about 10 seconds after we tookoff and she is fast asleep. 🙂

She almost always falls asleep in the airplane. Must be the drone of the engine and the warmth of the heater.

She stayed asleep till we were on final approach at Emmett and awoke just as we were landing there. Ava had a great time looking for rattlesnakes in the foothills (one of her current interests is snakes). She says she spotted one from 5000’… I didn’t see it 🙂