Christmas in the Mountains

Merry Christmas! We’ve been in Montana for 5 days now, and after a few trips to Yellowstone and a few days of skiing (both of which I will post on soon), we are finally taking a day to rest, Christmas Day. It’s been a nice day; we’ve played games, blasted Christmas music, baked and decorated cookies, gone on walks to admire the mountains, and played in the snow.

I also explored a few of my Christmas presents today. I leafed through the photography books from my mom and, and tried out some of my new clip on iPhone lenses. The lenses are actually really cool. The clip on over the camera lense on your phone, and then when

Heading West

Saturday morning, my family and I packed up the car and embarked the a two day drive from Minnesota to Montana to spend Christmas in the mountains. Back in Minnesota, we haven’t gotten much snow this year, or least not in the part I’m from. We had about a week of snow early in December before it all melted and left us with spring-like days. Saturday, there wasn’t a single patch of snow and the grass was closer to green than it was to brown. Pretty surprising considering Minnesota’s stereotypes isn’t it?

As we drove West, we were ecstatic to see the little bits of snow in North Dakota and finally the thick blankets of snow that covered Montana’s land. The snow in Montana was