::more skiing--this time with sandy & murphy::

Murphy and Laura came to visit us, which was super fun.  Saturday was one of our last possible family skiing days though, so we made them come with us.

But before that, early in the morning, Kris and Max got up before the sun to go up and hike up the mountain and ski down.  This is something that Kris does regularly in the winter, probably close to once a week.  But he's never taken Max with him before.



I was a little worried about Max wimping out, but reportedly he did great and was very brave--though of course very silly.



Bryce's daughter Eva who is Max's same age also came along and did great.  It's fun to see the kids and dads getting quality time together.



So the boys did that, and I got everybody up and ready at home and led Murph yand Luara up the hill to the ski area.  Sandy didn't want to go of course.  But little did he know how fun it would be.  This day's skiing was all about the Sandy.



We met up with Kris and Max, got Laura and Esther all situated in the cafeteria, got Lucy dropped off at childcare and we were all ready to go.  Murphy and Max and I went off to Easy Street to get Murphy comfy on his borrowed skis, and Kris, Sand and the hula hoop (which we found in our garage after we bought the house) went off to the magic carpet.



Sandy was pretty excited!



Here's my silly brother and I observing at the bottom of the magic carpet run.



I realized that Sandy really needed two of us to help him ski, and he was DYING to go on the run with a lift, so I sent Max and Murphy off to ski together and stuck with Sandy.  Murphy is really good anyway and both of those boys are above my level, so they had lots of fun adventuring together.



We did the magic carpet a few more times, then at Sandy's insistence we went to Easy Street so he could go up the lift.



Getting on and off the lift was definitely a little complex, but he was thrilled out of his mind.  And it was fun going down with him.  He stayed in the hula hoop and "chased" me.



He insisted at the end that he wanted to go on the lift with me--that made me pretty nervous because of the off and on parts, but I was very careful and he did great.  He really has great balance so that helps.



He probably went down the big hill about 6 times--he kept saying it was the last time but then when we'd get to the bottom he was excited to do it again.  It was super fun.







At the end, Murphy went up to see him family and Max came to ski with us for one run.

So it all turned out really fun.  Lucy had a great time because she was the only baby at Chipmunk Conrner.  Esther and Laura were cool about hanging out and the rest of us had a lot of fun skiing.  And afterwards we got to go have lunch together at Bumblebee.  It doesn't get any better than that!



Love this little boy and his little skis and huge helmet!