Way to go IDAHO!!


First of all, we just want to apologize for the long wait for this entry....after much "hate mail" we realized that we needed to get our act together and post all of our holiday images for all of those frequent blog visitors.

Over the holidays we traveled to Idaho (Justin's home state) to have a white christmas and visit old friends and family. When we were packing, we decided not to bring all of our camera gear since we already had four bags to check and two large carry-ons. Boy, oh boy, did we regret that decision! There were so many beautiful and cool scene's up there and we wished so many times during the trip that we had our camera equipment to capture everything. (BTW, if anyone knows a good looking couple getting married in the Idaho Falls area, we would LOVE to shoot a wedding there at a fairly discounted price!!!). There is a silver lining to this story though, it gave us a good excuse to buy a new point and shoot (the Canon Power Shot SD800 IS). We had a great time with our new little camera and got some pretty fun shots too!

Hudson's first time in the snow and he was loving it!



The bare trees were beautiful against the setting sun!



Grandma and Grandpa Lyon...





The sweet little Madison



Justin took this shot of his brother in law, kenney and and the adorable Olivia



One morning we woke up and the whole world, far as the eye could see, every twig and stick, was covered in frost...not just any frost, but a type of frost called "hoare frost", we were told that this phenomenon only happens about every three to four years....we were so lucky to witness it! To describe it in photographer words, it looked like we were looking through colored infrared glasses.



We also went for a snow mobile ride....this is us in our gear...I think we look way hot! The perfect get-up for 7 degree weather!

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Amelia with the sister-in-laws, heather and Mandy...another hot shot of us in our snow gear.



LIttle hailey had so much fun in the snow and even made her very own snowman family.





Justin with his sister Mandy



Hudson looked soooooooo cute in his snow outfit and he couldn't get enough of sledding down the hill. here he is again with olivia.



For New Year's eve, Justin, Kenney, Mandy, and I were desperately in search of a fun place to be to ring in the new year. Well, after jumping through hoops, driving around, and making phone calls, we ended up at a small bar called Karen's, where we had the amazing opportunity to spend our last night of 2006 with Idaho's finest group of people! So, we made the best of it and and actually had a really great time! Here are all of our crazy photos from that night:











This was our last day, we were able to get a few quick shots with the great grandparents. On the left we have grammy lyon and on the right we have grandma and grandpa Marsden.





The year of 2006 was amazing and even more generous to us than we had ever hoped for....we feel so blessed and can't wait to see what 2007 brings. Happy New Year to all!

Posted: Tue - January 9, 2007 at 06:42 PM          


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