Skiing Andrus Mountain, February 2007

We own 10 acres on top of a mountain in Utah. Mark and Jason hiked up the mountain, about four miles, to our property. They carried backpacks with ski and snowboard equipment for the ride down.

One of the views on top

It was cold, Jason built a fire which they enjoyed while they ate lunch.

Mark and Jason

Jason snowboarding down, the ride down was great, it took about 10 minutes, the hike up had taken a couple of hours!!

A fun and memorable day for Father and Son.

The Amish, Pennsylvania January 2009

Sunday was a good day to drive in the country because there were a lot of Amish buggies on the road

and people walking down the road

and children sledding

This is the Amish run saw mill where Mark worked

we liked the buggies

and the buggy garages

The End

Mia in London, England December 2008

Mia and friends with Big Ben

Mia and friends

Mia Selway in London, England

Sledding with cousins, Utah 2008

Little Mark, Jonathan, Deb and Jason at the top of the sledding bowl

Jason and Deb at the bottom of the sledding bowl

Little Mark and his dad Jeff

Jonathan and Jeff

Jason

Jason and Jonathan

Jason and Amy

Amy, Jason and little Mark walking up the hill

Jason, Amy and little Mark sledding down

Jason and little Mark, we had a fun time sledding with family, it was a cold day but felt nice when the sun came out.

Christmas Day 2008

The super cute ornament that Sarah made us

Santa came!!

Dallin, Emily and Jessica with their Santa presents

The bionical is a bit complicated to build but Dallin and Jason figured it out

Santa always puts a little box of cereal and a banana in our stocking that we eat for breakfast before we open the rest of our presents.

Eating pecan pie after a delicious Christmas day dinner of ham, potato casserole, green bean casserole, Shirley's rolls and Andrus mandarin orange salad.

The bear had a fun Christmas too!!!

Christmas Eve in Idaho 2008

Delicious Christmas Eve dinner of blintzes and homemade chicken noodle soup

The nativity story puppet show

The puppet show players

Dallin, Christmas Eve pajamas

Emily, Christmas Eve pajamas

Jessica, Christmas Eve pajamas

Jonathan, you guessed it, Christmas Eve Pajamas

Jason, Christmas Eve pajamas, what a surprise!!!

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After everyone got their new pajamas on, Catherine read the Christmas story in the bible. Then Jessica and Mark read "Twas the night before Christmas." As soon as the poem was finished we heard Santa land on the roof, he was checking to see if the children were asleep yet. They were not in bed so they had to hurry and get ready and jump into bed. Fortunately they were fast enough so Santa came back and did not leave anyone any coal, so I guess we were all good boys and girls in 2008.

Snow Day December 2008

Fun with the cousins, Jason, Jonathan, Dallin, Emily and Jessica

Starting the snow cave

Mark dumping the snow that Jason sends out in the bowl

Jessica and Jason inside the snow cave

Dallin and Jason the snow cave is getting foggy

Four wheeling and snowmobiling

Mark, Emily and Jason

Randy is pulling them with the snowmobile