February 20, 2009

Snowmassssssssssspen

We were able to join the extended Miller family for a few days of the annual trip to Aspen last week. Per Grandpa's rules no kids under 7 unless they are still attached (literally) to their mom. Luckily my mom was nice enough to accept our Christmas gift of a plane ticket to come watch Jack for a few days. Aren't we awesome gift givers?

The trip was great as usual. It started out fantastic with Jack basically pushing us out the door so he could watch The Incredibles with his grandma and Lily sleeping for more than 4 hours of the 5 hour 20 minute drive. We had three days of fun skiing and excellent lunches with each day getting a couple inches of new snow. Unfortunately we missed Thursday and Friday which turned out to be the only blue bird and powder days of the week. The drive home did not go as well as Lily's lack of sleep gave us flashbacks to 2007 and a horrible drive home with Jack. I still need to ground him for what he did as a four month old.
Lily has since gotten a haircut to reduce the effect of the widowhawk.

The after skiing schedule went like this. 4:15 Swimming/Hot Tub, 5:45 Meet for dinner, 8:00 make every effort to avoid the family "fun" card games by playing Wii, Guitar Hero, reading, blogging, or in extreme cases homework.

This is about as close to an action shot that was captured of me.

Cami was just one part of the army of helpers with little Lily Ann. Thanks everyone!

Pizzas the first night in Snowmass. I love any place that still puts enough cheese on the pie.

Beth and Grandma Miller on the balcony.

Finally a special thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for making it happen and letting us come. Also Amber for watching Lily so Beth could get some runs it. We love you!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

From your descriptions and the pictures, our assumption is that "a good time was had by all" - including us when Grandma Annie and Jack came by for dinner in Logan. Aren't skiing trips with family a great thing?

noelle said...

I can't believe you publicly disrespected the family card games. Wow.

Us5McEuens said...

If someone wouldn't have left early there would've been some action shots (not that you're all that great anyways ;). But, good job on making it back for class. You & Kurt are such good students.
I agree with you on the card games. Those things can get brutal. Luckily I'm not any good so I don't have to suffer being part of them.

The Martz Guppies said...

How fun! I can feel your pain of having a child who is not so good when driving home.
We have had many trips of "crying fun" coming home from Utah.
And we are going to do it again...what are we thinking???