We went up to Rick's family's cabin for an early Christmas with Trevor's fam this last weekend. It was so fun to get away for a mini vacation! It's so peaceful up there, I just love it.
Apparently Bella loved it too because she slept 10 hours the first night, and 11 hours the second night (!!!) She's NEVER done that before, and she has never done it since we got back either (in fact, she's been sleeping worse than ever this past week). Seriously, it must've been the mountain air or something-- maybe she knew we were on vacation-- whatever it was, it was so nice.
We had a blast playing in the snow, veggin out, playing games, and just enjoying being with each other.
Evan and Nicole got Bella a bouncer with all these toys attached, and it seriously made me and Trevor SO happy. We were laughing about it after-- we were so excited that she got such a cool present, way more excited than getting anything for ourselves.
We definitely had a true cabin/snowed in experience on the way out. Their cabin is on a ton of land and there is no one around them (makes it nice and peaceful), so they hired a guy to plow the snow so we could go home on Sunday. Wellll, when he didn't show up, we figured we'd try to get out ourselves. Rick was following us in their van, which got stuck in the snow-- so we tried to pull them out with our car forever. After a bunch of failed attempts (and me cringing every time we jerked our car), we decided to drive up to where the road was to keep an eye out for the snow plow guy. We turned our car off because we had no gas left.. and when we tried to turn it back on, our battery was dead. After a short freak out session (with Bella crying in he back because she was hungry-- and all we had was FREEZING cold water to make her formula. She did drink it though because she was so hungry, poor girl.), luckily a service truck drove by and the guys waved him down to come help us. He jumpstarted our car, then went to try to get Rick's van out... and got stuck in the snow too. They had to dig it out TWICE with shovels-- meanwhile, the snowplow guy came (3 hours late) in a suburban, WITHOUT his plow to "check on us", then he got stuck in the snow too and the guys had to get those shovels out again and dig his car out. He left and said he's be back in "10 minutes" with his plow, but it was much longer than that.
While all this was happening, Rick brought us all back to the cabin one by one on his snowmobile (actually kinda fun)-- including Bella! Trevor held onto her carseat and rode on the back... I was laughing and sorta freaking out at the same time (while filming of course). Since I had just ridden back on a snowmobile, I didn't have anything with me, and Bella decided to have a blow out all over her clothes... of course. Luckily Steph brought her diaper bag and had spare stuff for me. The snowplow guy still hadn't come back, so we decided to try to get out on our own again (and it worked!). Some of us walked back to the cars (they weren't close-- and there were 2 hills inbetween), and some of us (including me) got a snowmobile ride back. Since the snow was so packed down after having all the different cars drive through, we were able to get both cars out finally. Then, when we were all out on the road and ready to go, the snowplow guy showed up. Thaaaanks. It was an adventure, that's for sure.
