Matthew would take long naps after skiing and once he woke up it was time to go sledding. If you click on the first picture to enlarge it, Matthew's expression says it all.

At the cabin, nothing to do but compare bellies. One person about six months pregnant, the other person a really good eater.

Matthew's first time skiing!!!! He had a blast. At first he skied in between his dad's legs and then to the side. Then Clay and Allan would glide him to each other. Finally, by the third day he was skiing all by himself.

Getting ready to go ski and sitting in the back of Grandpa's truck

The morning of day one the girls and Matthew went on a walk. The first pics are right outside our cabin. Matthew had tons of giggles over throwing snow balls and sliding down the piles of snow. Mean while the boys went skiing. Clay some how fell off the side of the mountain, hitting trees and landing in this pile of trees. If you look at the tree to the left in the middle you can see where his skis left a mark on the tree. Allan saw everything and thought that Clay was seriously injured. These pics were taken a few days after the accident.

Red River

Fun in the ski shop getting skis. Waiting patiently for the deer to come.

Seeing Trains Morning Day 2

Right behind the hotel we were staying at was a train yard. Matthew had a blast watching the trains. We even got to hear the engines buffering up to the cars. The first pictures are of Matthew standing next to extra train wheels. Maybe one day Matthew will be a train conductor.

On the Road to New Mexico Day 1

On our way to New Mexico this year we left one day early so we could stop half way. On the way we stopped and looked at trains. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express. Matthew ate pizza while riding the baggage cart. We ate cookies and swam. Stacey and Trent rode along with us

Christmas Day 2007

Christmas morning, Grammy and Grandpa came over to our house before Matthew woke up. We were all just doing our own thing and Matthew somehow snuck past us and started playing with

Jeremy the Jet plane. He could of gotten that one thing and been just fine, but of course the presents went over board for him again. Stacey and Trent got him a Leap Frog video game which he loves to play with in the car. Allan got him lots of Thomas the train cars, bridges and Cranky the Crane. He got tons of other stuff from Grammy, Grandpa, Grandma, Great Grandma and the Lacey's. He always gets spoiled. The baby in progress also got lots of cute stuff. It was fun being together as a family again, it had been a whole year since we had all been together. We ate turkey dinner including ham for Allan, sat around talked and watched a movie. It was simple yet lots of fun. Matthew and Uncle Allan have this knuckle thing that they keep adding new things to (Matthew loves it).

Picture with Santa Claus

This year Christmas was so much fun. Matthew understood the whole Santa thing. His favorite holiday movie is The Polar Express. He asked Santa to bring him Jeremy the Jet Plane (associated with Thomas the Train). He baked cookies Christmas Eve and hung his stocking. Santa did not disappoint the little guy.