Skiing

I wanted to go skiing as a family for my birthday, but since Brad works on my birthday we went today. It was cold, but the sun was out and it was a beautiful day. We all bundled up with three layers and we stayed plenty warm. Gathering all of our gear took a while and we got up to the hill later than we would have liked. We did the bunny hill for Tenley and Ryder first. I held Luke and we watched Brad try and teach Tenley and Ry at the same time. It didn't work out too well. And then for some reason the power to the whole hill went out! So we went inside and ate lunch. We had some friends get stuck on the lift for over 20 minutes before the power came back on. Pretty crazy!
When the power did come back, I took Tenley and Kade on an easy run. Kade has skiied the hill so many times so he was going to be our guide, but he got sick of waiting for Tenley. She really did a great job for her first time down a real run! But it was definitely slow going. After I got her down Kade wanted to take me on a harder run that he has finally mastered. I should have realized that he is a better skier than me already! We got to the top of the hill and I lost my breathe looking down. It was definitely the steepest hill I've ever skied down. I couldn't even see the bottom for a little bit and when another skier skied over the hill I couldn't see him for another ten seconds. It seemed to me like it went straight down! Kade was just laughing at me and kept telling me it was no big deal. I tried to keep up with him, but he definitely beat me down the hill. He's becoming a great skier! I'm proud of him and glad that I'll have another great guy to teach me some skiing skills when I'm able to go more often! When I got back to Ryder and Luke, Luke was fast asleep in his car seat (thank you, Brad!) and Ryder wanted to keep skiing! Even Tenley wanted to do some more runs. I'm so glad they are enjoying it.
We picked up Cafe Rio for dinner on the way home and snuggled and watched T.V. My body is tired! haha. I'm definitely getting older. But it was a wonderful day.