For the past 6 years we have spent Christmas at home and then we drive to California and spend the last week of the year in Oroville with my family. This year was no different except that we postponed the trip a day to try to avoid some of the snow. We still drove in snowy conditions from our house to Elko but after that we actually got the speedometer over 50mph and cruised the rest of the way. The snow slowed us down a little but luckily our kids are amazing and we only stopped 2 times in the 13 hours that it took us to get there! Love these kids 🙂

We got in Thursday in time for dinner. Christy’s family came earlier that day. My parents, Michael, Brady and Sean were there.  Kevin and Liz were there and Joel had just brought Megan, his fiance, to meet the family! Josh and Mal came the next day and the sisters got home from China on New Years Eve. So we had a full house and tons of people to play with. We missed Ryan and Tracie and their families and wished they could have made it ( but 10 out of 12 isn’t bad).

We exchanged gifts with my parents. All of us siblings and cousins opened gifts from each other. We played a soggy soccer game one morning. I stayed home from the Hula’s trip to watch my kids but my mom and Liz stayed with me and Tonya and Erica came to visit for the afternoon so we had our own fun. We played some basketball at the church. Learned Bombay. Played Spot It, Ticket to Ride, Settlers, Sequence, Take Two, Rummikub, Saboteur, and Nertz. We got together with Mikila, Carrie, Angelee, Than, Erica, Jared, Emily, Jed, Rob, and Raeanne and their families for Pizza, Nertz and Fun. We took Rides in Dad’s new truck and dreamed about buying property. We ate frozen yogurt and mom’s homemade noodle soup. We brought in the new year with the Reynolds and a 2.5 hour game of nertZ! We visited with my dads sisters. It was a fun trip. I love ‘going home’. AND of course I don’t have pictures of most of those things but here is what I have…