The Special Guy in My Life & Garden Valley, Idaho!

Yes! I have a boyfriend and he's great! He's from Connecticut and we met at church, what a great place to meet someone special :) I know he reads my blog so I don't want him to go too crazy with all my compliments of him, so feel free to email me if you want!

This year for New Year's, my parents, brother, and I all headed up to the mountains where we had no cell or internet communication, so peaceful to be cut off from the world. It helped even more that Idaho Power had issues on January 1st and we pretty much had no power during that whole day and night, which made it so very nice to have no technology or anything, just a family of 4 sitting and chatting, passing the time!

We rented this beautiful cabin that came with its own private pool! The pool was outside and was heated geothermally with Idaho's great natural hot springs water!! The cabin was so accommodating for our family and can accommodate up to like 12 people, so we had tons of room!!!

Of course it got really chilly in Garden Valley but we had so much fun with all the snow and the pool! We rang in the new year drinking champagne and that night, temps fell below zero degrees!! BRRR!!!!

We did so many fun things!! Like taking fun walks around surrounding cabins and making our own sledding runs! I would have to say that if you plan on making your own sledding run or using a road for one, don't use one that has a bridge or one that has a lot of road signs along it! Yeah, we had a little accident, my dad and I were going down the road on a sled together, we picked up extreme speed (15-20mph) and slide off the bridge. We both thought that we were done for at that point but God was watching out for us and let us hit a speed limit sign instead. The sled hit the sign first and split down the middle and hit me next. Just some really bad bruises and issues with walking for the next couple of weeks, but life goes on!!

Now, I'm in Boise, packing up my stuff and getting ready for flying out tomorrow, bright and early!