Winter Retreat

Well the weekend was a success! We all had such a blast. It was so fun to be up there with my friends. It was also really fun spending time with everyone's significant others. Some of them I didn't know that well and it was really nice to get to know them better.
There were 8 couples that came up over the course of the weekend. It was snowing a little bit on Friday night, but the roads were plowed pretty well and everyone made it up ok. We spent the night playing couples ping pong (me & Sean won!!!), pool, fusbol & air hockey in the game room. We also played a round of pictionary (my team won!!!) and watched a movie. We decided on watching "What Lies Beneath" for some reason... but it really wasn't scary because everyone was cracking jokes about it the whole time. We finished the movie at around 3:30am and then everyone crashed. All of the married couples had their own bedrooms, and the rest slept in the bunk house. Saturday morning Sean and I drove Jamie & Tyson down to Heber to help them take their car in. They had some trouble with it the night before. Then we headed back up to the cabin and ate a delicious breakfast that Kess, Ryan, Erin & Trent were in charge of making. Then we went out on the snowmobiles. It was SO much fun! I usually just let Sean do the snowmobiling by himself because he likes me to ride my own and I don't like to :) But we all had to share, so I rode with Sean. It was a PERFECT day. It was sunny and pretty warm and just beautiful. Some of my friends had never been snowmobiling before and I think they really liked it. After we got back, some of us went sledding. I have to say that sledding was probably my favorite part of the weekend! I hadn't been sledding since I was a kid and I had forgotten how fun it is! We pretty much sledded down the whole main road and then finally got to the "sledding hill". This hill is the part of the main road that is closed off in the winter because it is too steep :) I went down it in this crazy fast black sled and I thought I was going to die! I was getting so much air on the bumps! My knees are seriously bruised but it was SO worth it. We were all laughing so hard! After sledding, we all relaxed for a little while and then started preparing dinner. Alicia, Jonny, Jamie, Tyson, Tiff & Whit all helped with dinner. We pushed 2 huge tables together so we could all sit together. It was a yummy dinner. Jonny & Alicia made the MOST delicious rolls! After dinner, we had a little birthday party for Jamie because her birthday was on Sunday. We just had cake & ice cream & presents. Then some of the group headed home. We were all so exhausted on Saturday night that we didn't do much. We played Friends Scene It for a while and then went to bed. I really didn't sleep much on Saturday night because the wind was blowing so hard. It kept waking me up and I was getting nervous about the weather for driving home on Sunday. We didn't end up going to church on Sunday morning (we were planning on going to a ward in Heber) because we were worried about the weather. The rest of the group helped clean up a bit and then went home around 11:00am. Sean & I stayed around until 4:00pm so we could finish up the laundry.
So that was our weekend! I am really so glad that everyone was able to make it. We don't get all of us girls together very often and it was some great bonding time! I love my friends! I don't know how many of you even know I have a blog... but thanks for coming and helping and making it a wonderful weekend!