Farrish - Winter Wonderland

I absolutely love this Ward Activity - Farrish - "Winter Wonderland." Farrish is an area up in the mountains with sledding, ice skating, snow shoeing, and lots of fun. We went up the night before, spent the night with some ward members, and ate lots of delicious food. The Olympics were on and luckily one of the rooms had good reception so I could watch Apolo Ohno race in the 500 meter race.

The weather was perfect this year. Cold enough to enjoy the snow, but warm enough to stay outside for a LONG time.


The girls were pretty fascinated with the lake because it snowed before the lake froze, so you could see about 1-2 feet down. You could see fish, frozen bubbles, and plants. It was very strange to walk on this clear ice - but the girls LOVED it.

Taylor got alittle nervous the first time she walked on the ice, but after awhile she was pretending to swim on the ice, and eating the shaved ice from the top of the lake.


Nicole was fascinated with the frozen lake and wanted to show everyone what she saw, including our Bishop.



You can always count on Kaylee to dive into the snow. She loves the snow and loved throwing it at people. For the first time, she was in a small snowball fight this year with some other kids and made the perfect hiding spot.

Kaylee has been begging to take ice skating lessons, so we decided to let her try ice skating and pretty soon a lot of other children wanted to join in the fun. We loaded up the truck and drove up to the office to rent some ice skates. Warren HAD to frighten us by driving on the ice for a short time - but after me screaming, he decided to stop.


Kaylee loved ice skating and skated around the ice for about 3 hours. She LOVED it.

Nicole also tried and gave 100%. She tried so hard, but needed a lot of help with her balance. She is so much like her mommy. To this day, I still can not ice skate.


While Kaylee ice skated, Warren took the girls sledding on the lake and the girls laughed and laughed. Warren would spin them around and around. Nicole is such a sweet sister, she took Taylor on numerous rides around the lake.

I JUST LOVE THESE PICTURES OF MY GIRLS!!

Kaylee built a snow fort with Brandon full of doors, a bed, tunnels, and shelves.


Warren's favorite thing of the day was playing hockey with the men and Young Men. He has such a great time and was so sore the next day.

This is such a fun ward activity and a couple of weeks ago our ward was split. SO SAD!! My neighborhood was split right down the middle. Ward changes are always hard, but it means the church is growing. I was so worried that we would be kicked out of the ward (no more Farrish), but we were on the side of the subdivision that stayed with the original ward. SO, next year we will get to go to Farrish, but alot of families will be missed.