Cabin Fever

This year for Christmas, my family got a couple of snow mobiles, and since there was actually snow in the mountains this year (so. Utah doesn't get a whole lot of snow) we decided to try them out. I was a bit nervous about taking Jordyn on a snow mobile since she can be a bit of a wiggle worm, and how things worked out, I would have to hold Jordyn and attempt to drive. So, on Friday Jan. 2, we loaded up our stuff and headed up to Kolob. After everyone donned their winter attire, and the sleds were packed, up the mountain we headed. To my surprise, Jordyn held quite still during the ride, and was actually enjoying herself. In fact there were a few times we had to stop to let everyone regroup, and adjust layers, and she would sit there and yell, "go ride, vroom, vroom" over and over until we started going again. As we were about 1/2 way to our cabin, we had some mechanical issues with one of the snow mobiles, it got turned off while waiting for everyone to regroup, and then we weren't able to get it started again. Fortunately, my little brother Colt came to our rescue. Colt had drove one of the trucks up the mountain and helped us get the snow mobiles unloaded, and then he'd headed back to Hurricane to wait for his girlfriend, Karen to get off work, and they'd be coming up later. As Colt was driving down the mountain, he had a feeling that something was wrong so he turned around and headed back up. He hopped on the snow mobile that we'd left at the beginning of the trail for him and rode up to meet us. He found us stopped with the dead snow mobile. He got it started and finished driving it to the cabin for us. He then drove all the way back to Hurricane to get Karen. Once we all got to the cabin and got ourselves settled in, Jordyn wanted to go back outside and go for a ride. Unfortunately it was getting dark so the rides were over for the evening. However, we did enjoy our time inside by playing games (Settlers of Catan) and watching Utah cream Alabama. Jordyn enjoyed playing with her cousin Keegan. He's 6 months younger than her, and she thought he was the perfect play toy. She would hug him, and kiss him, try to wrap him in a blanket and rock him. Keegan wasn't to fond of all this, but Jordyn was bigger and stronger so he got lots of hugs and even got tackled a few times. The following day, I took Jordyn for another ride on the snow mobile and let her play out side in the snow. She enjoyed playing with her cousins Sage and Shaylee. At one point they gathered icicles for the three of them, and Jordyn sat in the snow sucking on hers. That afternoon, we headed back down the mountain. This time, Jordyn wasn't quite so cooperative. Part of the problem was that it was a bit colder. There was a storm moving in and the wind was blowing. I had to keep stopping to adjust Jordyn and try to keep her comfortable. Fortunately, she eventually fell asleep and slept for most of the ride down. She woke up as we were heading down the last hill (unfortunately, it was the steepest part of the trek). We made it home safe, and had a great trip. We can't wait to go again sometime when Erik can go with us.