Over The Hills and Through The Woods

Eddie and I were invited to spend the New Year with The Grubers and The Espejos at the Gruber's Cabin in Utah. We've been to their cabin before so we knew it'd be lots of fun. Eddie and I were a little weary about the drive there because neither of us have 4-wheel drive. We decided head to Utah when I got off work on Thursday night in hopes that the streets would be plowed by the time we drove on them. We made it all the way there until we got to the cabin... we got stuck going up the drive way! We arrived at the cabin a little after 10pm so we felt horrible about the timing, but we just couldn't help but laugh! My poor little Jeep... We parked my Jeep at the bottom of their gate and Rick came to our rescue. After four hours of driving, over the hills and through the woods to grandmother Gruber's cabin we arrived:

And this was our AMAZING view:

Since it was pretty late when we arrived we retired to the "Bear Room" pretty quickly. The next day we towed my car up the drive way and it was really a group project!

We started at the bottom of the gate:

And with everyones help... we made it!

Next time I will be sure to invest in 4-wheel drive! After we were done with the labor intensive work we got to have some fun in the snow.

Court and I had an icicle fight:

Ed and I posed for a nice picture:

(then he threw me into the snow!)

Then Gracie put on her snowsuit and joined us:

 

We thought it would be a lot of fun to jump of the balcony into the snow since the snow was almost as tall as us and well... yeah, it was a ton of fun!! Eddie and Isaac were the first to go and if you know Ed you know he's bound to get hurt doing just about ANYTHING! I mean this kid could break a bone in a padded room, but this was actually the first time he didn't get hurt goofin' off with Isaac (must have been all the snow padding).

The boys before the big jump:

Ed's graceful landing:

Then Isaac decided to face-plant in the snow:

(bahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!)

Then us girls decided to join in on the fun. It doesn't look that high in the pictures, but once you climb over the balcony it's actually pretty scary looking!

The girls before the big jump:

I went first:

Then Courtney and Allison followed:

Then we got ready to celebrate the New Year:

We even found our 'Happy New Year!' hats from 3 years ago:

The boys played poker, while us girls played pool and board games until midnight. When midnight rolled around we all gathered together upstairs and counted down to 2011 and I put a big smooch on my hubby! After that we hit up the Jacuzzi where we had a few drinks... the whole day was a blast! The rest of the weekend...

We had lots of fun relaxing with Grace:

And working out in this gym:

Unfortunately, we had to leave at some point... On Sunday, we all woke up early and helped clean up the cabin before we headed back to Vegas. Before we left we took a group picture in the snow:

We took a different/quicker route home,

but the streets were full of snow:

I was so scared!

Who wouldn’t be scared seeing this out their window:

From the pictures you can tell that the streets are narrow due to the amount of snow piled on the side of the street. We had to drive in the middle of the street since the snow was packed down there, but when a car was coming up the mountain we would have to veer off to the shoulder (towards the mountainous snow piles) to avoid the other car. As you read before, my car is NOT very good in the snow and as we were veering my car naturally got stuck… AGAIN! ::whomp, whomp, whomp:: Luckily, The Espejos were right behind us and the Grubers were not too far behind either. Everyone made sure we got out safely and we were on our way back down the mountain! We made it all the way to the end without getting stuck again, but I was nervous the whole time.



This was a very memorable trip… full of fun, laughter, snow, and LOTS of food! (I left feeling like I gained 10lbs.) Basically, our New Years weekend was awesome. The Espejo’s go to the cabin with their family a lot and I’m so grateful that we got to share this trip with their family because it was such a great weekend. We’re very grateful to the Gruber’s for allowing us to join them; their definitely the hostess with the MOSTEST. So a big thanks to both of those families for making our New Years truly special this year!

Hope everyone had an amazing new year! :)