Let's Ski All Day!

After our super-cold Monday, then non-skiing Tuesday, we were really ready to hit the slopes on Wednesday.  We began our day by taking the Gondola up to the top so that we could have some professional pictures taken of all eight of us.

Everyone enjoyed the ride to the top!

Cami felt like such a big girl getting to do this with Maddie and Lila.

When we arrived at the top, we immediately found a guy to take our photos.  Keep in mind, there had been much preparation for these treasured pictures.  Showers were taken that morning, hair was styled, a backpack was taken to ensure we had cute toboggans for all kids...you get my drift.  Well, even the best laid plans can be foiled by a three year old!  Cameron Nicole would have none of a random stranger taking her picture.  Every single one of our group includes the back of her head.  Argh!  Imagine my surprise, then, when I asked the big kids to pose for a few pictures with my good camera, and she came running over to us saying, "I want to be in the picture, too!"

"What's that?  I thought you were anti-camera this morning."  "Well, that's just because I didn't want him taking my picture," said the little rascal.  Ah.  I see!

 

Turns our she wasn't anti-group photos after all!  This might be my favorite photo of the entire week.  All 6 of these people are so very happy.  Love it.

She was even down for different group photos, and let both Gigi and Boom take turns snapping pics of us.

Who loves the snow?  This little snow bunny!

My sweet mama is just a natural beauty.  Dad, you did good, snagging her all those years ago!

We all got ready to head down the slopes and began saying goodbye to Gigi and Cami.

But first, Cami needed to ski with dad for a minute.

As we went down the mountain on skis, Cami and Gigi took the Gondola back to the bottom, where they found this enormous polar bear!

This was probably my very favorite ski day of the trip.  The sun was out and it was gorgeous!

We usually split up, three and three, on the lifts.  I got the pleasure of riding up with my girls most of the time.  

Our ski team did so well staying together.  

Little Lila was able to keep up most of the time, and loved racing her big brother.

We were having so much fun that we didn't even go back to the condo for lunch.  We ate on the mountain and then got right back out there.  Jackson was in charge of mapping out our afternoon destinations.

He took us up to the top of Sundown Express and the view was magnificent.

Jared even declared it his best day of skiing ever.  Ever!

We skiied the top half of the mountain a lot and then came down to the terrain parks by our condo.  We hit up the half pipe...

where all three kids zoomed ahead of me on their way to the bottom.

Then we went back up and found another terrain park that was full of tee-pees and small structures that we could ski through.

J zipped through a tee-pee and then right through the General Store.

We ran this terrain park at least 5 times and the kids loved every second.

By 4:00 that afternoon we were beat.  Happy tired--the best kind of tired.

Only one more day left!