Skiing!

 One beautiful Monday off, I took the kids up skiing for lessons. They got lucky and were the only two in the group. They had a great time, and learned a lot. They are a solid Level III skier, according to Mo, the instructor. They learned to skate backwards, and they learned to ski between the instructors legs, by squatting way down.

 Then the following weekend we all went up skiing. We had a beautiful day. We just paid for the Easy Rider lift tickets, which just takes you on about three easy runs. Jery did VERY well, and I think that skiing finally clicked for him. He fell as he got off the lift a couple times, but after that he became very solid and had a great time.

We all skied too slowly apparently for Breccan because we rarely saw him, except him going up the lift as we skied down, or him going down as we took the lift up!

Sledding...for the first time!

Since I'm wonder mom and all, I decided to take the kids sledding for the FIRST time... aren't I great! Actually, I just didn't know where to go except to Old Powderhorn, and that's a 40 minute drive. My friend, Sue (aka Captain) and my friend Ruth gave me the inside scoop on going to Scenic Elementary and sledding. Finally managed it! If I'd known how much fun they'd have (and how much work they have to do) I would have been there every day this break!!!
























BayLea had a friend show up from daycare (not planned, they just were there).






I wanted to get a picture of my kids together, but decided I wanted them closer together. Look how cute Breccan looks here...

and then he made faces at me for the one of them closer!

He's still cute though!


Daddy showed up after work...he was a little cold.




They both wanted to try sledding like they were snowboarding...may be time for ski lessons.





and P.S. Can I just tell you how much I love my camera??? Because although I blew out some of the snow, at least my snow isn't GRAY!!!

Water Pictures from Glenwood Springs Pool

These are the pictures from the water camera. I'm so glad we drove to the other side of town to get this camera before we went to the pool. I love these pictures!












Don't I look lovely? I had no idea I was making this face. I was just thrilled I could go underwater like this. Did you know that you can go underwater in goggles and not get your eyes wet??? The only time I've gone underwater purposely since I was a kid was snorkeling. Wearing goggles at the pool might actually mean I can have fun in the pool with my kids!!!

Snow Painting

I joined a group on Facebook that sent me an activity to do for 5 days of the winter break. So far we've managed to do one...and that is the snow painting. Actually Daddy went out with them to do it. They enjoyed it, I think. We put water and food color in water bottles and let them spray the snow.