Snow Trip with the YW

For the last several years, Matt has taken the scouts up to the Palmer cabin for a snow "campout."  Not sure you can really call it that since it's more like a "sleeping-warm-and-snuggly-in-the-cabin-and-playing-in-the-snow" outing.  Anyway.....  The young women were jealous and wanted to do a snow trip too, so I got to accompany Matt up to the cabin for an overnight trip with the YW.  We brought Hayden with since she's still attached. ;)  Matt's parents kept the other four kiddos for us.

We got up there Friday evening and once everyone got settled in and claimed a sleeping spot, they held a devotional and testimony meeting.  I headed off to bed and Matt followed soon after.  Some of the leaders and girls stayed up until 2am!

The next morning, the leaders cooked up breakfast and then we all got ready to play in some snow.  There was just patchy stuff by the cabin so we drove up the mountain a ways.

Oh, I forgot to mention, it was RAINING.  But that didn't stop these girls, they still wanted to play in the snow!  We finally found a good place where they could sled, build snowmen and have snowball fights.

One DeWitt twin building a snowman^, the other throwing a snowball at Sister Brown.

 This was Hayden's first time being in or touching the snow.

 I had fun taking pictures of the girls, but my lens kept getting wet from the rain and fogging up a bit.

Madison Brown

Kennedy McLeod

Afton Jensen

Sis Sorenson - YW pres

Matt catching some air

After Hayden's hands were sufficiently frozen, she & I headed back to warm up in the car with the heater blasting until everyone else was done.

Wearing daddy's big wool socks

We stopped by the cabin so everyone could change into dry clothes and then headed back down to the valley.  This is a picture of all the YW and leaders that came on the trip.  We missed those who couldn't come!