Ward Family Sledding Party

  It has been such a great year for snow that we had to plan a family sledding party!!  Some of my best memories from growing up were snowmobiling to a hill and sledding as a family.  We had a great turn out but do to work and the roads we did miss a few.  I huge thank you to Mom, Whitney and Jessica for taking pictures so that I could just play!!!!  Larin picked us a perfect spot for everyone and made sure there was a plowed "road" for us to get to drive right up to the hill.  Another huge thank you to our snowmobilers who made it a super fun, lazy sledding party : ).  Kabree and Justice were playing so hard that the second someone dropped them off they were headed right back down the hill, thus why there is very few pictures of those two!  Keagan didn't like sledding as much as just walking down the hill and catching rides back up on the snowmobiles lol.  The girls had a blast and can't wait to do it again!

Kabree was so excited to ride with Wendy

Cayleb and Justice

 Shawn realized Jeff drives an Arctic Cat

 They decided Grandpa Vance would just stand in front of it in his Ski Doo gear

Everyone was excited to hit the hill!!!!

Hanna going down backwards

Heather and I discussing how come us old ladies were the ones who walked up the hill while the kids caught rides on the snowmobiles!?! ;), jk we did it on purpose for the exercise!

 I love that my Mommy still plays with us!

 Larin and Wyatt

 Zach and Kabree

Seriously couldn't have picked a better Dad for my girls!!!

Morgan

 Keagan and Wendy

 Cayleb

 Whitney was on picture duty since she can't play as rough this winter ; )

 Kabree Lee

Wendy 

 Kooper

Wyatt was excited to have his picture taken with me, can't you tell?

 Zach taking Keagan down

 Cayleb gave Beretta a ride

 Grandma JoAnn, also on picture duty

Bailey and Shay

Wyatt, Keagan and Larin 

 MaKenna

 Jessica and Wyatt

 Chase

 Libby 

Libby and Ethan

Jeff and Whitney 

 Eric joined us for the hot chocolate and donut holes

 Berretta wanted to give Jeff hugs

 Grandpa taking a break

 Keagan and Larin taking a treat break

 Wendy and Whitney

 Libby

 Bailey and Shay

 Heather and Justice

 Katie and Grandpa Vance racing

 Heather and Katie

 Hanna and Wendy

 Zach and Ethan

 Kooper and I racing........ya he creamed me from the start!

 Katie, Whitney, Libby and Heather

Grandma started the chaos

Snow Day

  We headed out to Arbon to help Grandpa Vance with year end.  Zach and I decided to get a puppy-sitter and head out Friday night.  Then we decided we should just stay up late and do all of the year end Friday so we could just play Saturday.  Saturday it took some convincing but we rounded up a crew to come play in the snow with us!  We had a blast!!!!  Some of my favorite memories are sledding on the Knole.  I was so excited for my kids to have a small taste of the fun I had growing up.  Have a mentioned lately how awesome my nieces and nephews are?  They are pretty great and were all so willing to take a turn going down the hill with the girls or helping put gloves back on.  My girls always get the V.I.P. treatment when we go to Arbon.  I must admit they spoil me too!  Grandpa went up and down the hill a few times in their can-am to pack the snow, so our hill was perfect!!!  We had so much fun, my voice hurt from all the yelling and laughing!!!!

Kabree, Mattie, Keagan and Eric
We sure love our Eric for taking us as far as he could

 Grandma and Grandpa

 Our rescue crew
Morgan, Kooper, Ethan and Zach

  I have to say that Eric was such a sweetheart!  He did not want to go sledding but he was willing to drive us as far as he could in his Rodeo and then he sat there for a hour while we sledded so that he could give my girls a ride home!!!  It was snowing, a bit foggy and pretty cold so it was super sweet of him to do that so that my poor (crying by the end) Kiki didn't have to ride the snowmobile home.

 I sure love this Dad of mine

The picture ladies

This is why Keagan got cold, she thought it was great to roll around in the snow!!!

 Kabree LOVES her cousin Mattie and is always in Heaven when she gets to spend time with her!

 Kooper

 Morgan

Ethan

 Kiki and I spent most of our time like this.....darn gloves didn't want to stay on!
Ethan

 Mattie

Kooper

Tarbet Family

The Originals

 All because two people fell in love....

 Zach, Jessi, Kabree and Keagan

Caleb, Sandra, Mason and Adam

Therin, Skylar, Megan, Thayer and Paisley

 Lynden, Sean, Kira and Wade

Ringing In The New Year

  This year we rang in the New Year a bit different than usual.  We decided to keep it low key and have a little party at home.  The girls wanted to invite Grandpa Gary and Grandma Sally over to join in the fun.  We had lots of finger and junk food!  The girls loved that we played ALL of their favorite games and then ended the night with a New Years toast, party blowers and confetti!

 

 Game time

Cheers

  

These ladies had a party blowers fight with Grandpa