Spring skiing

One of our highlights of Spring break last week was taking the boys skiing. This is the second time we've made it up this year and the boys have improved so much. They're turns and snowplows are looking great. We stick to green runs, but there's a couple steep areas where they need to turn a lot and we've been really impressed with how well they can stay in control. Mac had two big crashes in the beginning from going too fast, but I think that was a good wake-up call to slow down. They'll be keeping up (or passing us up) in no time!


Heading up on the chair lift


The boys loved the rainbow trail, it was through the trees with lots of bumps. This is one of the first times, Mac is flying out of it and this is right before he ran into the tree to his left. His first big crash...


This is Nate coming out. In general, he's more in control with his skiing. He doesn't have the "need for speed" that his brother does.


Mac has learned his lesson and is now perfecting his snowplow. This is actually a pretty steep hill on our run.


We went with friends and while Sam was helping their kiddo with his first time skiing, the boys and I went up by ourselves. Mac got to ride all by himself...he was pretty excited! He did well, although I questioned my thinking the whole way up as we went over high areas! The boys are both champs on getting off the chairlifts.


We play "follow the leader" down the mountain to teach the boys to make big turns on the steep areas.

We're not sure if we'll make it up again this year, but it's been a good one. Maybe we'll get Elly up next year...we'll see.