Real Snow This Time

On spring break, we headed to Reno with our Lee friends to play in the snow one last time before the season ended.

This is what it looked like when we arrived at Mt. Rose Ski Resort.

This is what it looked like in December. They had to make their own snow.

Hannah did not want to ski this time around and instead she made her own snow slide on the mountain pictured above.

Emily and Matthew skied and snowboarded respectively. Emily didn't even take any lessons this time around.

Hannah made snow angels in the fresh powder...

... and played in the snow with Hope. They even built a fancy snowman (with the help of Grace)

Faith took a snowboarding lesson for the first time and then hit the slopes with her Daddy.

She's a natural! Check her out with her daddy! No fear!

The four musketeers

Emily towing Faith along. The resort was NOT crowded at all!

Now you might be wondering.. where the heck am I and Grace?

Well.. here I am holding a snowboard with my husband.

Here is Grace posing with her husband.

And here we are pretty much stuck babysitting taking loving care of our youngest daughters while the fathers have Father-Daughter time on the slopes. I also read a book while Grace watched four episodes of Burn Notice on the iPad.

Oh.. here is a picture of how crowded the Lodge was. This is the 2nd level where we usually plant ourselves in for the day. And NO, this wasn't taken at 8am.. it was taken at 11am!!

At the end of the day, Grace felt so cooped up inside that she wanted to do some sledding so they brought out their buttsleds and slid up and down the same mountain Hannah made her slide on.

While everyone was sledding up a storm, I sat in the car and finished reading my book, Delirium by Lauren Oliver. The night before Grace and I had our Girl-Date time. We went and watched The Hunger Games, while the fathers took the kids to the hotel arcade and got them ready for bed!

Oh the sacrifices you make for your family!