Our Little Piece of Heaven: Christmas in the Frozen Tundra

Merry Christmas! And greetings from the frozen tundra of Idaho! After a long day of travel on Sunday, we finally made it to Bloomington, Idaho (population 251) for our Christmas holiday. It's been great fun so far. We've been shooting, made a snow-family, fed the horses, and have spent a lot of time reading, relaxing and eating (and eating, and eating). We're going to do some snowmobiling later today (my favorite is being pulled behind it on the sled) and some skiing tomorrow.

It was a beautiful (cold...15 degrees!) snowy Christmas Eve and Christmas day. It was all very magical. Our little niece and nephews were so cute. Santa made a special stop at the house to tell the kids how good they've been, which got them all really excited. There were many Christmas surprises and it was great to spend Christmas morning with my dad...it's been about 20 years!

My brother-in-law, Bryan, has been trying to coax the deer down from the hills into our backyard. He's put a couple dozen apples around the yard and has left his face-prints on all of the windows peering outside. Last night, we finally spotted a few in the yard but, they didn't touch his apples! We bought some special deer food today so, hopefully they'll be more deer sightings tonight.

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! It's such a wonderful time of the year. It's so easy to remember how blessed you really are!

Until next time, enjoy some fun pics from our first few days of vacation!

On our way to Bloomington, Idaho

The boys on Christmas Eve morning. Notice Jeff's face. For some reason, he's been making that face in all of our pictures this week!?! He's usually very photogenic but, clearly, something is off! You'll see this face in several of these pictures!

Braden, downing the whole milk. Bryan bet him he couldn't put on 10 pounds before we leave. There's $50 waiting for him if he does. He's been eating, and drinking, constantly!