Mexico and Early Winter Fun

I realized the other day that I haven't post anything in a while.  It’s been very busy fall and start of winter for us.  We headed down to Mexico for a much needed break, we did nothing but relax.  We been going to the Barcelo Maya Palace for the last 4 years, but this was our first trip alone.  It was a great get away.  Think that our next trip will be to a new location, we love this place, but it would be nice to see something new.

The view from our room on to the pool.

The wonderful beach.

For Thanksgiving we headed to Kyleen's family and the following Sunday we head to mine.  My family has had a tradition of shooting before dinner, I'm sure that's a normal tradition right??  It worked out great that both of us hit the clay in the pictures below!

Then we came back to winter.  It seems like this year we just jumped right in!  Work has been busy for both of us but we have been able to get out for some fun.  Kyleen and I met up with Kat and Paul for some XC skiing at Wild River State Park.  It is a great place to ski and the trails were perfect.  We got in about 8 or 9 miles of great skiing, the trails were awesome.

Troy and I decided to head over to St. Croix Falls for a pre-ride of the Solstice Chase fat bike course.  It was about -8 degrees for the whole ride.  I did not take any pictures on the course but it was beautiful.  We did snap a picture at the end.

We headed to the cabin Thursday after Christmas for some snowmobiling, snowshoeing and relaxing.  It was a great time.  There is a ton of snow up there, riding was good and we’re hoping to get up there again soon.

After a great ride and a nice snowshoe around the lake it was time for a good beer!  It was a great sunset as well!