sundance in the sun

Jeff and Melissa and Madison came to visit us! It was a short but lovely little weekend trip and we loved having them here. We stayed up late talking and laughing and the little girls got to play and love on each other. We went to Sundance on Saturday, then pizza and hanging out that night and then a fun Sunday with family and another ski day for Jeff and Melissa and then sushi night on Monday! We all tried to make the most of their time here and enjoyed it all! Thanks for visiting!!   

So on Saturday we all had a little ski adventure! The boys got up early and went skiing together and Melissa and I got the girls up and ready. After a quick stop at Walmart for snow boots ($5 clearance! score!) we headed up to Sundance and met up with the boys for lunch. We sat on the patio and it was so beautiful and sunny and delightful! The little girls had fun walking around and exploring the snow a little bit.

After lunch the boys just HAD to try the little girls out skiing. Paul has been talking about getting Caitlin on skis since she could walk so i wasn't too surprised that he already wanted to this year. And so the adventure began:

We went and rented the smallest skis and smallest boots they had (which were still no where near small enough)

Hiked it up to the tow rope bunny hill and decided to see what these babies were made of!

We ended up experiencing three rounds of ski tries for Caitlin...

Round #1: On skis with her boots. We strapped her in and got her standing on her skis and then they were off to the tow rope and came down.

Unfortunately she did not come down happy. She wasn't too excited about this method and as soon as she got her skis and boots off... she said "see ya dad".

Round #2: in the backpack. This one went better. More enjoyable for Caitlin but still only lasted for a little while on the bunny hill. She preferred to just roam around.

Round #3: Paul held her and skiied down to the bottom when we were done and said she was perfectly happy this way.

And so went the first time on skis! Not exactly a success.. sorry to report that Caitlin is not an 18 month old skiing prodigy, but not a complete disaster either. The moms were tired from the emotional supporting (me more from having to climb the hill up to the tow rope):

 

And the dads were happy to have at least tried.  

But who could really complain about a fun afternoon in beautiful weather with great snow!