Ski Week

One of our very favorite weeks of the year has come and gone - with lots of good times and crazy memories to keep!  We absolutely love the time we get to spend at the Brighton cabin and could never ask for a better place to relax, enjoy and ski our hearts out.  It's like a little slice of heaven on earth!

We took loads of pictures and the kids got better and better as the week went on.  They love the terrain parks, going through the trees, The Slide, Wren Hollow, jumps, skiing fast and most of all just being up on the mountain for days and days in a row. 

Some new things we did this week:

Rails and boxes

Wren Hollow Pro

All the rollers on Candyland Terrain Park (mom)

Great Western as a family

Jumping off the roof of a cabin

Choosing our walkie talkie call signs for the week is one of the hardest, but most satisfying thing when you come up with the perfect one.  Our call signs this year were awesome!

Josh - Ski Daddy

Nat - Mommer Bomber

Rease - Volkl Girl

Rhen - Clammy Clam

Liev - King of Snakes

Keen - 

Beck - Powder Boy

Such a great week with amazing snow and blue skies! Desh joined us for a day to ski and we had lots of visitors: Andy, Kristi and Ladd, Grammie and Papa Losee, The Baldaufs (who we love and have wanted to ski with forever!), The Flint/Johnson family, Matt Turner and Grammie Beutler.  

The kids are amazing skiers and have no fear.  They are so good at sticking together too and taking care of slow old mom who always brings up the rear slowly but surely.  There is nothing like seeing my kids do something they love and letting me do it along with them.  We all made great strides in our skiing this week and loved our time together on the mountain.  But all good things come to an end, and we were surely sad to leave this place.  But we didn't leave without giving out awards for the week.  So here are the winners and reigning champions...until next year!

Rease - Supermodel Award.  For perfect ski form.

Rhen - Show Stopper award.  For falling 2 different times by the chair lift and stopping all chairs until she was clear.

Liev - Dare Devil Award.  For...well...being a dare devil

Keen - Tour Guide Award.  Always telling us where to do and leading us down the right path

Beck - Silent but Deadly Award.  He's a silent killer on the slopes and is rockin it as a 5 year old!

Special award this year was given to Keen and Liev - Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Award.  For doing some of the dumber things of the week: dropped gloves from the ski lift, forgot their passes in the cabin and had to go all the way back, left without telling us where they were going,  and falling down a slope between two trees and getting skis lodged.

Dad - King of the Slopes Award.  That pretty much says it all.

We have an amazing video of Liev at the end of the week as we're walking back to the van.  He was crying and saying how much he's going to miss ski week and said, "I just don't want to forget all the jumps that I learned this week."  Cute boy.  We will never forget.