The Best Snow Day Ever!

Today we took the kids up skiing for the first time! Aunt Julie, Meagan, and Blake also came! They were so excited. We rented their skis last night and as soon as we got them home, they had to walk all around the living room with them! Ethan could barely get to sleep he was so excited!

-- We worried that it would be way to cold up there....
-- We worried that since it hadn't snowed for a few days in the mountains that it would be too icey....
-- We worried that they would just get mad and frusterated and the day would not live up to their expectations...
-- but we worried for no reason at all!

-- It was sunny and warm (if you consider 25 degrees warm... the sun helped out a lot!)
-- The conditions were perfect!! Soft snow... no ice to be found!
-- And the kids did so great and had a fantastic time!

First Kidd Family Ski Trip
(Why is it the girls look like big giant marshmellows? I'm sure my stylin' coat from 1995 isn't helping any!)

Audrey, Blake, Meagan & Ethan
waiting anxiously to start their day of skiing!

Audrey in line to go up the ski lift for the first time!
(We didn't want to bother with the bunny hill... we threw their skis on and headed straight for the real slopes!)

Mom & Audrey waving at Dad & Ethan on the chair lift!

Ethan & Audrey posing for a picture! At this point they had both gone down the mountain a few times and were having so much fun!

This is how Audrey started out! Mom helped her on the steep areas.

Posing for another picture!

When it wasn't as steep, Audrey wanted to do it all by herself! She definately liked going left more than she liked going right!

Whenever Audrey felt like she was going too fast and her "pizza slice" wasn't slowing her down she went straight to the sitting position to stop! She would actually get going really fast in this position too and thought it was a fun way to ski!

Ethan was hard to get pictures of because he just wanted to GO! He picked it up really fast! He would go up and down the slope in record times by his second or third time down the mountain. In fact, by the third or fourth time, he got so tired of waiting around for the rest of us that he would ski down and get on the lift all by himself and try to lap us!

Of course, there were definately some mishaps along the way!

Here is Ethan getting tired of us trying to take his picture "again"!

Ethan and Meagan being silly on the slopes.
This picture was taken at the top of Triple 60 (aka "The Face"). Jason took them up to the very top of the mountain. They didn't actually go down "The Face", they took a different route down the cat tracks, but Ethan & Meagan were really excited to go up the expert run.

Audrey and Dad on the chair lift

A fun shot that Jason took of me and Audrey on the chair lift!
It was such a pretty day!

We can't wait to go again!

And of course, we couldn't have done it without my awesome neighbor, Melissa, who watched Davie ALL DAY so we could go. And of course, Davie didn't get a nap, so as soon as we picked him up and brought him home he was sacked out on the couch again! Just couldn't last another minute! Thanks again Melissa!