Tamarak Ski Trip with DeMordaunts

Wednesday we received a call from the DeMordaunt's inviting us to join them on their trip to the Tamarak Ski Resort for a Valentine Ski weekend. We simply can't ever pass up time and memories with our Idaho Family...so off we went!!!

Tamarak is BEAUTIFUL! It is about 2 hours north of Boise, and is a fairly new resort. Everything has been so well designed...it's very classy. (Let's hope they can stay in business!)

This was the SKI IN/ SKI OUT cabin we stayed in. Not only was it gorgeous and so perfectly comfortable, but it was Geoff's dream location... to be able to ski right to the house and eat lunch and then ski out again was dreamy!! I loved that I could snow shoe right over and watch the boys ski. It really was very cool.

These were some of the rooms. The cabin was so light and open and roomy! We all loved our stay here. Aside from little to no cooking utensils the set up was perfect for our two families. Despite the cooking gear, we ate like royalty! Reed likes to cook and makes some incredible dishes. We had Italian, Chinese, Mexican and all American food that was scrumptious. And who will forget the Chocolate Fudge Valentine cake????

While inside, we spent our time together here in the Living Room. We played games...Nertz (of course), battleship, and ...were the most popular. We made over 500 yarn balls for my humanitarian project due on Tuesday (thanks guys!), and watched some great movies.

My favorite being North and South by BBC...a winner in everyway! This is not the American North and South Civil War movie, but takes place in Britian. It's your basic pride and prejudice story, and so well done! I can't wait to see it again.

And here's the crew!

Justin & Nate, Ben & Max,
Max & Olivia, Matthew & Justin

Geoff & Reed, Justin & Matthew,
Merideth & Max, Max & Olivia

Gayann & Max.

Max adores all of the DeMordaunt's but is especially fond of Gayann. He was always looking for her, "Where's Geeann?"

JaNae

I too was here REALLY...I was just always behind the camera.

On this particular evening we invited the Giles family over for games and pie. The connection between the two families is that Meredeth knows their son Brad, but it ended up that both Geoff and Gayann knew his parents. It was a very fun get together.

An evening of Valentine Cookie decorating.

And OH the SKIING!!!!!

Olivia, Justin Matthew & Max

Ready to go!!!

Geoff was Justin's Ski instructor, and they had 3 full days of skiing. Justin absolutely loved his first ski experience.

Up the magic carpet.

Justin in his glory.

The Chair lift.

Some great skiing!
Justin is a natural...just like his dad!

I love these pictures...the ski head after taking off all the ski gear to eat lunch, a great ski pose, and pure exhaustion after hours of skiing.

Max also had his glory and loved the experience too. Inside or out, he was so happy.

He was as much apart of skiing as he could be. He especially loved stomping through the high snow drifts.

On Sunday we drove into McCall and went to church there. On our way home we stopped to see the local ice sculptures (they have a competition every year). The sculptures were amazing!!

Candyland

Sea Monster

Castle in the Forrest

Cable One Truck

A Wizard's castle

The winner...
A Dragon's Palace

How does a family ever leave such a magical place??? The vacation was so much fun and our time with our dear friends was priceless! Max is still waking up saying, "I wanna see the guys," and of course, "Where's Geeann???"