Stan turned 40 on March 4th. To celebrate, we went to Silverton, CO March 16th for a guided ski tour with 12 of our friends. Aunt Kel came out to join the party. Grandma Gail and Grandpa Tom drove out to take care of the kids for the weekend. Saturday we arrived at Silverton at 8:30 a.m., broke up into 2 groups (total of 80 people are allowed on the mountain each day). We got 4 runs in. There is a lift you ride up halfway up the mountain...you have to hike the rest of the way. The snow was variable, but we were able to find some powder here and there. It was an experience!
The kids had a blast with Grandma and Grandpa. They went to family night at the church, which was filled with moon bounces, obstacle course blow ups and a big slide blow up. The kids also got to go swimming and bowling while we were gone too.
Grandma and Grandpa left Wednesday, March 20th. Marcy, Stuart, Lily and Jack arrived Sunday, March 23rd for Spring Break. Kel is staying with us, though in and out of town with work and social activities. She was able to be around the week Lily and Jack were in town. We went to the pool 1 day, tubing another day, the rest of the time was spent skiing. It's fun that the kids can now ski with us!
Casey's preschool goes skiing at ABasin Ski Resort every Wednesday for a month in March/April. She is loving it. Her group...basically Casey and Lydia, though sometimes Greta goes with them too, got to go to the very top of ABasin.
While Casey was at ABasin and Garrett was at school, we went to Vail. We got a bit of snow the night before so the back bowls were nice. Though def more than what Marcy and Stuart were used too, they were awesome on the steeps and loved it.
We dyed Easter eggs Saturday and had a great Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday. After a morning of jump rope races and sidewalk chalk, Marcy, Stuart, Lily and Jack bid us farewell.
Thursday we went to Kindergarten Round Up at Summit Cove Elementary School. Casey got to see the Kindergarten classroom and meet both teachers. She seems pretty excited about starting school.
Casey had her last soccer class today. The first half of the session was a lot of whining and not much participating. The second half was increased participation every week and today she wants to do the next session. She is actually a pretty good player, but she is very shy and really afraid of losing her ball to another kid (even though all the balls look exactly the same and there are more than enough balls to go around).
This weekend was Keystone Ski Resort's closing weekend. Saturday, Kristi watched Garrett so Stan and I could take Casey on her last Keystone runs of the season. We then watched Robert Randolph & the Family Band play before dinner at Luigi's. Sunday, we went back to Keystone in the morning to watch the annual "Slush Cup." People skiing/snowboarding across a pool of water. Pretty amusing.
Happy Spring!!
hanging with the Grandparents
Erica, Amy, Kelly, Sarah, Tracy, Stan at Silverton
Tracy Hiking on Top of the World
Tracy Living on the Edge with Sarah and Amy
Tracy, Stan and Kel after our 4th and final run
cousins getting ready to tube...Lily, Garrett, Peaceful Jack and Casey...
ready to ride
Garrett had so much fun...sleeping
Kelly, Jack, Marcy, Casey and Lily skiing Keystone
let's shred
Lily the babysitter
in jail at Keystone
Aunt Marcy showing Garrett the ropes of Easter egg dying
