Snow Trip: Days 2 and 3

 

On Tuesday Dave took the three oldest boys skiing/snow boarding at China Peak while I hung out with the little ones at the cabin. This was lovely. I don't like to ski, and it's hard to hang out at a ski resort with little kids, so this really worked out well. The only bad thing was that I didn't get any pictures of them skiing, and Dave forgot to take pictures. So this whole blog is just us.



 

It was a fun, low key day. We played outside, we went in for snacks, we went back out, we went back inside for naps, we went out again, etc. They did awesome the whole day.

Levi went up and down the hill forever. He'd walk up, I'd give his sled a little push, and then he'd yell, "Again!" as soon as he got to the bottom. I don't remember my other three-year-olds being this tough in the snow. He never cried once about being cold.

 

Brennan likes to sled too, but mostly he just wants to pick up the snow and eat it and roll around in it and make snowballs. Whenever we went back to the cabin and got all their gloves and coats off, he'd immediately ask if he could go back out.

 Somehow, kids innately know how to make snow angels.



They spent a long time collecting icicles. They even saved some in the freezer and brought them home in a cooler. This was the biggest one they found.

 





As I mentioned earlier, Chloe did great. She just hung out in the back carrier outside and took naps in the cabin. It helped that it wasn't too cold.

 

See how warm it was?! They even shed their coats and got ice cream from the little store next to our hotel. Actually we got that as a treat since the other boys got to go skiing.

 

On the third day we packed up while the boys continued to play outside as much as possible. There was some sadness when Tyler's iPod disappeared overnight, and we were convinced it was stolen. We literally tore the place apart looking for it. That put a damper on our trip. But we were so impressed with Tyler. He prayed to know where it was, and he just felt at peace, like everything was going to be okay. So he went outside to play and totally stopped stressing. I called the hotel the next morning, and they actually found it. They mailed it to us, but we're still waiting for it to come.