Weekend in McCall

 We spent the weekend in McCall as a family two weekends ago.  We hadn't seen a lot of snow at home yet (which was great for basketball purposes) so we hoped to get away to our local winter wonderland.  We rented a cabin  up there and had a great time relaxing.  It snowed light little flurries most of each day, which was pretty.  We hoped to be able to try skiing out as a family at Brundage while we were there, but it hadn't snowed enough to open the resorts up there yet.  Still, we enjoyed sledding in the existing snow on hills around our cabin and we even tried ice skating out as a family.

Brielle warming up by the fire after coming in from sledding.

Todd and Lainey dancing to some song that came on TV.

Watching a football game together.

The cabin was beautiful, warm, and cozy.  I especially loved the kitchen.  

We ate in for some meals and ate out for others. 

Going out to Pueblo Lindo's for dinner.

All matchy-matchy in our CrossFit T's.

Lainey trying out salsa.

Snow time!

The kids LOVED the snow and of course the hot chocolate 

that followed each time they went out.

The loft had a nice place to finish up my Christmas cards, 

which I had brought to work on.

The wintry view from the loft.  It was fun to do cards up there- it just felt more like 

Christmas time there!

We watched part of a hockey game before ice skating.  The kids were glued to it, especially Ashton.  They've never heard of hockey!

About to test the ice!

I've done quite a bit of ice skating, growing up in Alaska, but it was still hard to skate while holding all the weight of someone who can't skate!  So they offered these nice shoe covers for Todd to move the kids around with.

Taking a break.

When everyone was done I got to whizz around on my own for a few minutes.  Made me miss Alaska a bit.  We did lake skating there.  And it was much colder, but still very fun.

Eating a breakfast at the Pancake House.  Lainey pointing out what she said she wanted on the (upside down) menu.

Lainey was egging Todd on to be tickled and I loved going back through these pictures and seeing the progression of her cute little facial expressions too much to leave any out.  So here's her giggle-fest in frame-by-frame play back:

After breakfast there we went to the connecting shop, The Christmas House and found some great decorations for the house.  I love that store!  I was there in the Fall with my friends on our girls getaway and remembered seeing so many perfect Christmas decorations for spaces in our new house, but held off because it wasn't Christmas time yet.  With what we bought, our house is now officially holiday trimmed.  It's always so fun to be home when it's decorated for Christmas.  We came home from this trip feeling relaxed and festive from the Christmas setting there.