Winter Finally Made It!!!

We got a wonderful blizzard about ten days ago, winter has finally arrived in Idaho!! Here's Carter enjoying a day off of school since Mommy decided it wasn't worth it to go and drive with the other crazies out on the roads...

Carter's two little best friends from across the street joined us outside for some white fun!

THIS is what a sledding picture should look like...it's a far cry from the one in my "Make Lemonade" post a few weeks ago!


This blizzard was MUCH anticipated as ski season has been sadly postponed until now due to no snow. Our resort has never in it's 70 year history opened this late so needless to say, us skiers were DYING to get up on the mountain. So the very second we could, we loaded up our skis and headed up Saturday! The weather was amazing and the kids (and us) picked up the knack right away! And we had so much fun we even headed back up Sunday, even though Joshua and I's aching muscles told us we might not want to go for two days in a row very often lol (the kids of course were absolutely fine and ready to go for more!).

A few pictures from the weekend...




This is a beautiful shot Joshua took from the chair lift of the Valley below...


The lines were long to get on the chair lifts cuz surprisingly EVERYONE else was dying to get in some skiing, so this was Carter's "resting" pose while we waited. Yup, head down in the snow and bum up! He was cracking up all of the other waiting skiers with his flexibility.


And here are the two favorite videos...

Karen and Carter heading down the cat track on the "big hill"



And here's all three monkeys skiing down Carter's favorite hill. Trevor is in the grey plaid coat and Emilee is in the full black jumpsuit. This is the only video we managed to get of Trevor because he's so darned speedy and tricky. He's either heading down a black diamond (and there's no way Joshua can hold a camera and live through getting down the hill himself) or he's zooming along the regular trails and I just can't catch him. Also, please notice the VERY TEENAGE activity Emilee is partaking in as she cruises down the hill!