Skiing - day 2

Since everybody wanted to go skiing we were up early and packed up the whole car since we were heading home that afternoon so we could watch the Seahawks in the NFC championship game.  We woke up to a beautiful sunrise and blue sky!!!

I couldn't help but take some pictures as we headed up to the ski area.  This is before the sun was really up, but I do love snow on the trees!!!

You can see the sun peaking out on the top of the mountain over there.

I was getting really excited with the weather the way it was.  Yesterday was great, but really foggy and this day looked to be epic!!!

As we were heading up to the ski area the boys looked at the snow and saw it sparkling!!  They were sooooooo excited!!!  They were almost giddy,  I was smiling from ear to ear!!!

Look at that big smile and the blue sky behind Michael.  He was ready to go and went to the top of the drag lift no problem!!!!

My boys so happy to be up on the slopes!!!!

You can see the snow blowers were still going full force, but it wasn't as bad today since there wasn't other snow fall and fog.  They are beginning to look like pros!!!

They are ready to take on the drag lift again!!!  Michael wasn't even flinching about going up to the top of the drag lift today!

David is doing really well on the snowboard!!

Off the boys go into the sun!!!!

They decided it was time for a rest!!  :-)  Either that or they were just waiting for their dad to get up the lift.  :-)

AJ and I at the top of the drag lift!!!  Look at that vitamin D coming down on our face!!!!

Today you can see all across the valley, it was a beautiful sight!!!!

David getting the drag lift and the snowboarding!!!!

David and I - so much fun skiing!!!  It was great!!!  There were no stops this morning, Michael skied the whole time like the rest of us!!!

It was time for lunch, by 11:30 we were all hungry and wanted to beat the ski school crowd.  We were lucky today and were able to get a table all our own.  David and AJ - aren't they so handsome?!?  I think so!!!

Me with my Michael!!!!  We enjoyed our lunch and AJ was the first one done and wanted to get back on the slopes fast!

I had to get a picture of me going up the drag lift!  :-)

David wanted to go up the chair lift to take a run once, so up we went!!!

At the top was a tower we could climb if we wanted, but we were more into the skiing!!!

Over on the next hill top so some para-skiers.  It looked pretty fun!

So Michael said he was done skiing and ready to sled and that was totally fine.  But AJ wanted to ski one last time with me and David mentioned me taking him up the chair lift.  Michael said he was afraid, but he would like to try.  Unfortunately David wanted to be done. I can't take up two beginning skiers so he had to come with me.  Michael and Daddy on the chair lift to the top of the mountain!!!

AJ and myself heading up the lift!!!

The boys at the top of the hill!!!!  They both did great getting on and off the chair lift!!!  I was so proud of them!!!  Everybody made it down the hill in one piece!!  Then Michael decided he was still a little scared but wanted to do it one more time.  So up the chair lift we went again.   

Then we headed over to the sledding hill, we took off ski boots and put on snow boots.

This gives you a little idea of the ski area, we are over on the sledding hill and the ski area is beyond the orange fence.  You can see the fog was starting to roll in again.

Michael at the top of the hill starting his slide!

AJ's turn on the blue sled - it was much, much, much faster than the other one!

Michael coming down on the other sled, it wasn't as fast, but still fun.  They had a great time sledding as well!!  We were all pretty tired at the end of the day and headed back home.  It was a much quicker ride home and we were able to get everything unpacked and settled before the game started.  It was another wonderful weekend and everybody is ready to go back on the slopes!!!!