Cabin Week

One of our favorite weeks of the whole year is here!  Cabin week at the ski cabin at Brighton.  It is seriously a dream to be able to stay here and ski in and out for 5 days with the kids.  We have a blast and look forward to it every year!  The hardest part is getting all our gear hauled from the van to the cabin, but we have lots of helpers and after a few trips we finally got settled in.

 We could not have picked a more perfect week with the weather this year.  We had lots of fresh powder every morning as it snowed almost every night we were there.  During the day we saw patches of blue sky but then patches of snow coming down.  It made for soft landings when we'd fall and beautiful clear skies when the sun came out!  I personally love having lots of soft new powder and this week was ideal for that.  

 We spent each morning skiing together and putting one of the kids in charge of each run and the rest of us would follow.  It made for some fun, adventurous runs and lots of trips to the terrain parks when the boys were in charge.  This year we brought walkie talkies with us and it was so fun to chat back and forth with everyone as we spread out over the mountain in the afternoons.  Each of us had a call sign and we used them all week to talk back and forth to each other.

Dad - Ski daddy

Mom - Scaredy Cat

Rease - Dog Jane

Rhen - Noodles

Liev - 

Keen - Micro

Beck - Slide Boy

Rease and Liev did not ever want to stop and after skiing all day, still were the last ones to come in after night skiing too!  Grammie and Papa joined us for a night and brought Desh with them to hang out with us for a little while.  He got to take a ride with Aunt Kristi on the snowboard and loved it!

 At the end of the week we gave out awards:

Dad - Bruiser award (running into Liev and taking him out at full speed)

Mom - Luckiest award (I sat in chair #1 on the chair lift)

Rease - Best call sign (Dog Jane)

Rhen - Dominance award (hiking up the mountain and skiing down in fresh powder)

Liev - Gentleman Award (helped mom navigate the trees without letting me get too far behind)

Keen - King of Splat award (wrecked in the same place twice on two different runs)

Beck - Most Unique Wreck award (ski and boot came off together)

Andy - Ramping Award (ramped all 3 jumps on My Oh My terrain park)

Kristi - Naturalist Award (Spotted a porcupine in the top of a tree)

That pretty much sums up how our week went.  Lots of adventures, a few cool wrecks, lots of improved skiing and lots and lots of memories that we will always remember!  We left the cabin with sore legs, grateful hearts and tired eyes.  Can't wait for next year!