Riding the ski lift

This is the face of a boy who has looked forward into riding the chair lifts!

After 3 trips to Meadows and staying at the Ballroom carpet, Aden has graduated into taking on the Buttercup run. He has practiced hard to get to this point and he was so excited while we were waiting in line.

The boy is a natural skier - he just loved the lift and was amazing going down buttercup. He goes fast and he can't quite get why he has to keep waiting for mom who is still getting the hang of snowboarding. We are just having an awesome time skiing and I can't wait for more trips. Next goal: high-speed quads!

Skiing

We've been busy bees around here lately. We took Aden skiing a couple of months ago and he's loved it ever since. We've gone 5 times and he is just in heaven and keeps asking us when we will go again. This video was taken on our 2nd trip to the mountain. It's amazing how fast he picked it up.

A big kuddos to my husband who took on skiing just so he can teach Aden how to ski. He's an amazing dad - the best part is that we are enjoying skiing/snowboarding again now that we're seeing it thru Aden's eyes. I've always loved skiing/snowboarding but with the kids, we just never got the chance to go up as often as we did pre-kids. But now that Aden is into it, we're seeing lots of ski time in our future! It also helps that my mom's willing to babysit Kadence. A couple more years and she'll be ready to go!

Dancin'

First father/daughter dance?

Lovin' the party

We had a great time seeing family at my cousin Punky's wedding earlier this month. The kids were a bit tired from the long weekend, but seeing all the cousins made it all worth while! Ms. Grace was in rare form, being loud as usual and just having a good ole time.

Aden did not enjoy all the fuss with getting his pictures taken (the boy clearly takes after me...) and he keeps making this face:

But he clearly enjoyed posing with his beloved Danice:

Family portrait

We haven't had any great pictures of all 4 of us, especially not one where we're all dressed up. So we took to opportunity to get a good shot while at my cousin's wedding. We all clean up nice...