Our 7th (and final, boo!) Ski Trip of the year

Today we took Kai with us, and left after church.  It was a cold day, and Grace offered Josh her buff, which she realized was a bad choice later in the day. After 6 runs, Josh and Grace and I needed a FRIES break to squeeze out a few more runs.  This ended up being our last trip up for the season--we didn't know it at the time.  What a great season of skiing!  Our kids great leaps and bounds and we had more fun than not--which might be a first?!?  :)

 

Ski Trip #6

Debbie went skiing with us today!!! We made seven runs and had a great time with our Auntie Debbie! The Ridge, Lost Dutchman to Angel Heart, Bugaboo, Ridge/Queen, Ridge to King/Queen, Mahre's Gold, Ridge to King. Our small lot was too full, so we parked in the big lot.  They could use some fresh snow!

 

Ski Trip #5

This was our 5th day up the mountain, and we did six runs: two Ridge, Lost Dutchman, Bugaboo, Ridge, and Bugaboo!  Micah ended the day going down Valhalla and Micah "regretted it."

Ski Trip #3

We skied with Oden and Drew today--and they showed us how to park in the small lot by chair 5!  What a sneaky, perfect spot!  By the end of the day, Micah and Dad joined Odie and Drew on Silver Queen--a black diamond!

Ski Trip #2

Jeff & I had Covid booster fatigue on Saturday, so we went up again on a Sunday after skipping church. We met up with Lochheads, VanAnrooys, and Humes on our first trip up Chair 1, and ended up skiing with the Lochheads most of the day.  This was the trip that Oden skied into a tree well, so from now on, we have the Oden Tree to point out as we ski by. Sometime later, we realized that this was the 5th anniversary of Pappy's passing, and thought it was such a fitting way to remember him.

First trip to the ski hill...

We were pooped on the first day of the year, thanks to the late night NYE, but look who we saw as we lazed around...our neighborhood MOOSE!  We've seen him a couple of times already--the kids and Jeff saw him on a walk, neighbors saw him in the yard next door--but it was kind of fun watching him nibble on our neighbors' shrubs!

The temps in December--especially over break--were too frigid to go skiing in, so our first trip up to 49 was on January 2!  This was the year that they replaced the main lift with a high-speed quad.  It made things so nice!  The Midway loop doesn't really exist anymore, but we had a great time. We went up after church, and ended up parking right by Drew & Annie!

THE FIRST SKI SATURDAY OF THE SEASON!!!

We were excited to get at it this year!  On our first trip back, we did the bunny hill a time or two and then we went up Chair 6 to come down the ridge.  This was pretty hard for Grace, as she's so cautious, but it was a good first go!  No lodge this year due to Covid, so we just skiied until early afternoon and then brought lunch to eat in the car on the way home...and of course The Ram quickly became a ski trip tradition.

That evening we had a garage birthday party for G'ma Colleen!  So fun to see cousins and honor sweet G'ma Colleen

And Aunt Sheyanna got her birthday buddy a big lego project!  He was up for the challenge.