Snow skiing - Winter Fun

Ok, these pictures load in reverse order, and I never remember to change that when I'm loading. And it is a pain to try to move them around, though maybe there is a better way and I just don't know it?! So... bear with me as these start at the end of the snow skiing! And what better one then this one of Luke, who looks like he is basially saying "That's it. I'm done. Leaving my skis here, don't care, just get me out of here!" We had this great idea that was basically like this "Hey, how often are we going to be coming up here and it will be good snow. Let's take the kids skiing". Of course, I couldn't ski, being pregnant, so that left Chris with all 3 kids. It was just going to be Cole and Ansley but then we saw that kids under 3 were free, so hey, why not add one more to the chaos. And Chris didn't want to pay for ski lessons (which I didn't want to spend the money either, but it is one thing to try to pick it up yourself, but an entirely different matter to have one adult trying to help 3 young kids who have never even seen this ski equipment before, much less worn it.) So... that left Chris trying to deal with all this chaos, kids falling down, not sure what to do, cold hands (I didn't bring the right gloves, so their hands were cold, wet and freezing -wasn't a problem on the other days but when you're trying to hold wet ski poles and keep falling down in the snow, well... not good).




Ansley gets the hang of it, though she gets tired after a little bit and wants to be done. They just stuck with the little kids bunny trail. No ski lifts for us!

Cole doing a good job too - he actually was enjoying it and probably would have kept going a little longer, but his hands were freezing - red and very cold...

Chris trying to help Cole while Luke just stands there.

And this was before they had even started trying to ski. This was about the time I started having a really bad feeling about it all. Luke had that stubborn look, and the kids were complaining and frustrated that they couldn't figure out the skis, etc. Part of me was relieved that I didn't have to go out there and help with all this mess, but the other part of me was thinking "This isn't good - Chris is going to need help!"

Needless to say, a memory was made and a lesson (or two) were learned. Chris was not thrilled that we spent so much money and were not there more than 2 hours (and that includes waiting to get all the equipment, etc!). Got some good pictures though :-)