We just got back from a week at Snowbird in Utah, and had a great time. We went with the Harness’sss and it was a ton of fun to get the kids on skis for the first time. Pictures will be up soon are here, but I wanted/needed to write about it before I forgot all of the fun stuff, so here’s my brain dump (in no particular order):

• Sharon joining us and being woken up the first morning on the couch by the kids pestering her for hot cocoa.
• Noah strapping on skis for the first time in 10 years (I’ve been snowboarding) and taking the first turns down the slope at Alta — just like riding a bike, you never really forget how…
• Kris grilling steaks on the balcony (umm, no, actually, he never did this, as far as you know)
• Anne cruising down the slopes with her new skis (orange, the same color as every pair of rental skis on the mountain)
• Andrew bugging the maintenance guy for more hot cocoa
• Leah bugging Noah to watch “Beauty and the Beast”…again…
• Dropping into Great Scott, and not quite making that first turn (I recovered though…)
• The many trips to the game room to play air hockey and the snowmobile game
• Snowball fights with Alex
• Seeing Alex and Gabby go from total beginners to passable skiiers in 3 days. Can’t wait to see what the years to come bring — it’s true; get them started as early as possible.
• Playing “ball” with Leah in the swimming pool
• Watching Gabby learn how to swim and not drown
• Kids in and out of the hot tub…about 100 times…
• Cruising Bananas
• Anne’s crick in her neck (that “allowed” her to spend the whole day at the sauna, steamroom, solarium, and massage table…
• Anna’s sunburned teeth (and gums)

I’m sure that I’m forgetting something (probably a lot). Let me know…it’s too good to forget…

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