Vail

My family took a little trip to Vail last week. We look forward to this every year, and feel so lucky to enjoy it! My kids had a ball. We did the usual, lounging around, swimming, eating, and skiing/snowboarding. Actually this year the snow wasn't very good so we didn't feel like it was worth the $97 to ski the mountain but we got to go a little bit on the free lift with the kids. Charlie decided that he wanted to try snowboarding this year. Now I'm all for snowboarding but I wasn't super excited to teach a 5 year old to do it so I kept telling him not this year. Of course in true Charlie style he kept asking and asking, this kid doesn't give in and knows what he wants! We decided to rent him a snowboard and let him have at it. He actually did pretty good. He just goes down the hill until he falls, he doesn't want to learn how to turn, won't listen to us when we try to teach him, he just wants to go straight down. The last day he was tired and frustrated I think. He told me he said a prayer the night before and asked Heavenly Father to make him be better at snowboarding so I think he thought he was going to get out there and magically be really good. He was shedding some sad tears by the end, I felt bad. Over all I was really impressed with his little snowboarding skills!









Last year they were all gathered around the DS's, this year it was the itouch. I love how Charlie is cuddled up to Stella, this was in the morning just after waking up.

My brother Colby wife Erianne with Knox and Emerson.