Family Get-together

So the Hanks family gets together twice a year....we usually get together in June and December. Lately in our December meeting we've been renting a lodge up in the mountains for a night where we get together eat, talk, sleep, eat, etc....


This lodge is fairly good sized which is good since we usually have 40 - 65 ish people.

Usually there is more snow outside and the kids can go sledding and all that good stuff, but this year there just wasn't a whole lot of snow there.

There is always plenty of parking

Here is the kitchen

and creepy taxidermy everywhere

Dining room

There are only 7 bedrooms, but there are about 10 twin beds in the loft area, we were lucky enough to have this room. :-)

Aidan showing off his drinking skills.

Eating dinner.

Nick and Jesse were always fighting over who got to hold Aidan.

Dad and Kara were playing the piano and Ava wanted to join in on the fun.

The lodge managers had decorated the lodge for Christmas so they had baskets of ornaments and pine cones and Ava just loved grabbing the ornaments and sucking/biting them. Guess they looked good to eat.

Jenny and Sharla

Anita and Grandma

The lighting in there at night makes it nearly impossible for ME to take good pictures. I wasn't wanting to use my flash all the time, but if I didn't it just wasn't working out. I wish I wasn't so lazy and would learn how to take proper pictures with my camera. :-)