Christmas at the cabin - 2017
We spent nearly a week at the cabin, and a beautiful Christmas Eve snowfall was a highlight of a wonderful time together.

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1. Christmas Eve - a 5PM service at the Pebble Creek horse barn featured readings and carols

2. The one-horse-open-sleigh was festive and ready for service.

3. The Reverend Sam Kirk (right) led the service

4. Afterwards, we celebrated Joan's birthday with dinner at Emmy & Michael's cabin

4a. Dab demo

5. Thalia & Matilda show the table they set, with name tags and poppers

6. Matilda shows how she can cross her eyes

7. Warmup for our Christmas picture

8. Christmas morning dawned with deep powder, still falling

9. Dan made the sled run (Zippy, right, supervised)

10. Clara

11. Zippy

13. Michael & Thalia play "Park & Shop" (from the 1950s) while Matilda works on a schmuzzle puzzle

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16. tranquil cabin scene

17. Emmy, Jen, & Bill off for a ski. Dan joined us on the trail

18. Jen spotted bear claw marks on this aspen tree - they went high up

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22. Jen & Dan

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24. Emmy & Matilda reading

26. Matilda & Michael

28. Our grandchildren. Those are real candles on the tree, a 40+ year tradition.

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31. December 26, "Boxing Day," featured a brunch for twenty of Joan's extended family.

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34. Jeanmi and son Aiden

35. Clara & Thalia

36. Clara, Linnea Nordlof, Thalia

37a. Sledding videos (2 minutes)

37. Dan and Tom Whitmore

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40. L to R: Mary & Tom Whitmore, Joan, Robert & Sharon Swartz and two of thier daughters, Teri and Anna.

41. Anna, Emmy with Matilda, Robert (Mary standing), Sharon, Debbie and Ben Whitmore, Michael, Teri and little Aiden

43. Anna, Thalia, Emmy & Matilda, Mary, Robert & Sharon, Aiden in front

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48. Thalia, Matilda, Emmy

49. Anna and Aiden

52. Mary and Tom Whitmore

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55. Emmy & Michael's cabin at sunset

56. Sunset on the Williams Fork Mountains

57. December 26 (continued): Afternoon horse feeding. Here are Matilda, Emmy, Michael, and Thalia at the horse barn. Matilda read the instructions

59. In the tack room

60. Tock, Fox, and Charlie say hi.

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62. Thalia and Tock

63. Emmy mucking out the loafing shed

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