Christmas in Yellowstone Park

Ken and Merry came out to visit over Christmas for the 2nd year in a row. We rented a cabin for Christmas Eve in Silver Gate MT. Silver Gate is at the northeast entrance to Yellowstone Park and the only way to get there in the winter is to go through the park.

It was a great trip even though it was snowing like crazy on the way in. We saw wolves on both days and had a great stay at the cabins. It is always fun to go through Yellowstone on the holidays because it seems pretty empty of tourists compared to a normal day.

Cassidy Spoiled? No way!

As usual we were completely spoiled for Christmas. Unfortunately our daughter was so obsessed with trash that she had a hard time getting her presents unwrapped. Every time that she tore off a little piece of wrapping paper she had to run into the kitchen to throw it away.

Cassidy meets Santa Claus take 2

We went to visit Santa Claus at the mall today for the 2nd time. Our first visit went so badly that we do not have the pictures to prove it. In Cassidy's defense I thought that the Santa on our first visit looked kind of creepy too. This Santa looked a lot better and he must have been used to crying kids because he never even blinked when she started sobbing on his lap. Poor Cassidy, the things that we put our kids through for pictures can be so traumatic.