Our Trip

Ever since Christmas the boys have been bugging us to go swimming. So we decided that we would go up to my brother's cabin and make a trip to Lava Hot Springs to let the boys swim. The Cabin was covered in snow. We had to park on the road and hike up through all the snow. It was so deep that Braden and I would sink in up to our thighs. Our first trip up we got the boys in all their snow stuff and sent them up the hill. Jaxon kept sinking in and boobing that he couldn't walk, but Alek decided to crawl, which was smart because he didn't sink in at all. He crawled all the way to the cabin on top of the snow. When he figured this out he crawled every where the rest of the trip. Jaxon would crawl for a second but he wouldn't do it for a long time so he just cried. The Cabin is heated by a wood burning stove, so when it's really cold it take a while warming up. We all stayed in our warm clothes til the cabin warmed up. After we made all of our trips to get everything up to the cabin, we made hot chocolate. You can see how happy the kids are to be there.

Joye especially

The next day we went to Lava. The kids had so much fun! Joye splashed and splashed. The boys would stand on the side and jump in over and over. They didn't want to leave.

The first night since the cabin was still chilly the boys slept in their clothes, the second night I convinced them to wear their footie pajamas. Jaxon's had a dinosaur on it and the rest of the night he was a dinosaur, growling at us. That's why his face is like that, he's growling.

Braden had to cut some firewood to replace the stuff that we used. He found a tree that had fallen down and cut it into pieces. The boys were all about helping.

Here's Alek crawling around. The boys had so much fun in the snow.

The boys didn't want to leave the cabin. They could've stayed forever. Since we were only going to be there for a few days we didn't turn the water on, which means no toilet. I was the only one that this was an inconvenience for. The boys would run to the door and fling it open and just let it go. I think that is part of the reason they didn't want to leave. Their other favorite part was when we would boil snow some would fall on the stove and pop. All they wanted to do was throw snow on the stove.