Cabin

We had an awesome trip to the cabin last weekend. We were worried we wouldn't be able to get General Conference on the radio but Saturday morning we got the signal loud and clear...well somewhat clear. I was glad we didn't have to get the kids dressed up to go listen and the church. It pretty much snowed the whole time we were up there, but it was really wet and slushy.

Saturday night we had a campfire.

Sunday afternoon we went for a walk. Here we are at the mom's creek.
On Monday while Jeff and I were cleaning the cabin Owen came running inside and said "Dad, there is an animal out there." We went and looked and there was a moose with her calf.

We were all ready to leave at 1pm when Jeff went to turn the valve to drain the water out of the cabin. He took off the cap to find the pipe full of rocks, dirt, sticks, and pine cones. The pipe is about 5 feet long and it was shoved to the top. We tried vacuuming up the stuff, but only made it about 2 feet and then nothing else would come up. If anyone was going to be able to come up during the winter we had to dig it out so the pipes won't freeze and break inside the cabin. So here is Jeff digging it out. It took both of us digging for about two hours. I helped the kids on and off but the ground was really hard and we kept having to go wider. There was a point when we wondered if we were ever going to reach the water line, but we finally did. This picture doesn't do the hole justice. And here he is removing the rocks and pine cones. The grand finalie was a two foot stick. Just for the record we're not going through that again so Dad you better child-proof the pipe. We finally left at 4:30 and made it home with only one stop. We're sure happy to be within driving distance of the cabin:)