President's Day

Have you ever laughed so hard that you cried? You can't control yourself and then you lose all of your strength and become powerless against everything around you?  Happens to me.  In fact, one of my kids is usually the cause for such laughter.  My latest episode looked something like this...

This past year, my kids have discovered the joy that comes from skiing between all of the trees on the sides of the slopes.  Ms. Aeva feels that she should be able to go anywhere that her older sisters can go.  Usually, it doesn't work.  

On this particular occasion, Aeva had followed Gracie into some trees but did not have as much speed as Gracie.  She decided to take a "lower" path through the trees and ended up stuck at the base of a Quakie.  She then decided she had better try to turn around and only ended up with her skis going backwards down the hill and into a pine tree.  Ever gotten stuck below a pine tree in lots of snow?  Not a good thing.  By this time my dad and I are laughing too hard to be of much help.  I bent over to grab her hand but her glove just came off.  More laughter.  I grabbed her coat but her arm just came out of the sleeve.  Hysteria.  Further and further she sunk into the hole.  I couldn't to anything.  I was worthless, blind with tears and laughing as my last born sunk to her death.  It's a good thing Grandpa Ken was there or we would have never gotten her out.  

We had to recuperate over some nice hot chocolate back at the ski lodge.  Aeva still looks slightly offended that I was unable to save her.

These girls have become great skiers and it is fun to take  them out on the slopes.

At the end of the day, we even tried the Palmas lift.  Basically you put a frisbee seat between your legs and stand up as the lift pulls you up a hill.  

It took a few tries but Aeva finally got it and it ended up being the highlight of Aeva's day.  Too bad we didn't do it earlier in the day so we could have gone more than once.  

The sunset was amazing and it ended our day with some amazing views from the top of the world.

We are blessed beyond measure!