Fun Weekend

Jer patrolled Friday night and Saturday, so we decided to make it a family affair and headed to the mountains for the weekend. Our friend Steve was also patrolling, so Seth and I hung out with Cami and Caitlyn while the others headed out to ski. Luke had a major skiing breakthrough and loved it!!! He could not get enough. We took dinner up, and I was expecting them to be in by 6:30 or so at the latest to eat, but it was after eight. He just made his "pizza" (that's kid lingo for snowplow) and did run after run down the Little Beav. I was so proud of him. He's a kid that needs some encouragement...sometimes persuasion...to do things but once he does he has so much fun. It was a pretty cold night and he looked like a frozen popsicle when he came in, but he was so excited about what a good skier he was and told me he just "tried his hardest." Jer said his legs were shaking on the lift ride up and when he asked if he was cold Luke said "no, my legs are just a little tired." I totally feel his pain. After skiing with him last year I realized what a workout it is to snow plow all the time! Now he wants to go skiing everyday.

We stayed the night at Steve and Cami's cabin and had a fun day of hanging out and sledding on Saturday while the dads were gone. My kids were exhausted though--especially Seth...and me. We got the kids to bed late Friday and then stayed up until about 2 am which is way past my bedtime. I'm old..and pregnant. When we finally did go to sleep Luke was in the bed with us (it was huge) and Seth was in the port-a-crib in the same room. Between my coughing, overheating (I had Jer opening windows in the middle of the night), Luke hogging the bed, and somebody waking up at least every hour it was not exactly restful. In the morning Jer and I had both kids in bed with us, and we were still closing our eyes and pretending to sleep. After about 5 minutes of the kids jumping around, landing on our heads, etc. I could not help but laugh and ask why we were even bothering!

Here are some pics from the sledding and playing at the cabin. There was a ton of snow!




It looks kind of flat, but they went down the tire tracks in the driveway and actually picked up a lot of speed by the end.


There was a lot of snow eating going on. Luke doesn't even bother to pick it up first. Notice his tiny glasses. Yes, that's the pair he got at age one (a replacement anyway). His have been broken for two weeks and the replacements are still nowhere in sight. After trying both tape and super glue to hold them together it's getting a little old! Glasses and four-year-olds are a very bad combo.

Luke, Caitlyn, and Jack (belongs to some other friends who came up to stay too).

Jack was not a fan of the sledding but Cami finally convinced him to go down with her. After Luke saw that he wanted a ride too. Thanks Cami! He asked me but the tube was a little low on air, and I was pretty sure we would bottom out and/or I would never get back up again. Cami is so tiny you can hardly see her!

And yes, Seth was on this trip, but he was attempting to take a nap during the sledding. He loves "panda" right now and does kung fu/karate around the house with Luke a lot. He waves his arms around, kicks, and says "hiya" a lot. I can't stand how fast he's growing up!