We had such an incredible time being with family over the holidays. Scott was able to get his usual 10 days off so we began our journey on December 20. We drove as far as Salt Lake City to stay with my sister-in-law's brother and his family. It was a nice stopping point as it took us about 3 hours longer to get there because of weather. We finished our drive to Boise on the 21st. Christmas Eve day was spent skiing with a small group of adults. Christmas Eve was soup and bread night with the nieces and nephews acting out the birth of baby Jesus. They had a real stable and everything. Christmas morning was with my mom, brother and his family, sister and her family and us. Smaller than usual, but still lots of fun. We went to Vale for Christmas dinner with all the Jacobs. It was at the church due to the large number of people. After dinner was dodge ball then to the
high school for basketball. It was fun playing basketball again. It'd been a while for me. The 26
th was a night of homemade pizzas and another Christmas when the last sister and her girls arrived. After exchanging gifts we had a kid white elephant then adult white elephant gift exchange. That was lots of fun. Fun to see what other people deemed as junk while others gasped for joy! (not really) Friday, December 28
th was another ski day. This time with all the kids willing and able. We went night skiing. We couldn't have asked for a better, nicer, more magical night. It was B-E-A-
UTIFUL! I was amazed at how well all the young ones did too. Saturday we all went to a great sledding hill and tested some new sleds and some old ones. We had a bon fire and roasted hot dogs. A few of us had to be pulled out by Dan's 4x4. It was still lots of fun! New Years day had a bit of a
glitch in the plans. We were on our way out to go snowmobiling on the farm I used to work on, when I got a phone call from my mom saying they had just been in an accident. Thank the heavens, everyone was o.
kay. The car, on the other hand, was not drivable. We went and picked them - and the Honda symbol from the car - up and continued our plans. We only snowmobiled a bit as it was already getting late. New Years Eve was back to the
Aldred's in Boise with lots of goodies and games and fun. A few of us crazies stayed up till almost 4:30 a.m. Molly was wide awake at 7:10. Thank goodness with her mom and dad barely
coherent, she decided to go back to sleep herself. It was such an enjoyable time being with family. Thank you to everyone who contributed their homes, time and food.
Besides our laps, Molly enjoys pulling all the DVDs out and placing herself in their stead. She thinks she's pretty cute too.
After lunch the other day, Molly got her baby and a dish towel (aka the baby's blanket) and sat under our computer just holding her, patting her back and giving her lots of kisses. She played for about 30 mins with her baby and those towels. It was quite adorable. 
It only looks like she's eating the baby. She really is just kissing it. She's working on her closed mouth kisses. Hopefully we'll have her trained before we see you all!
