Snow Weekend!

Our third annual snow trip with our dear friends Victor and Nena was both great fun and completely exhausting! It was our second year staying in the cabin. Our friends have a four year old daughter who is 99% of the time pure angel. As for our four rowdy, sometimes (or more times) whiny little kiddos, well it's almost hard for me to understand why they would put themselves through an entire weekend with us! They must love us as much as we love them!

We drove up to the cabin Friday afternoon, it wasn't snowing so it was a smooth drive and it took us under 2 hours. The area is near Pinecrest lake and the snow was beautiful and fresh. We let the kids, and the husbands, play in the snow for a few hours and then had dinner. We fed the kids first and sat down together the four of us adults. Then maybe after ten minutes of grown-up talk we cleaned up and got ready for bed. I lost my voice somewhere between Friday and Saturday and couldn't even yell at the kids to quiet down, so I just went with it. They went to sleep late the first night. We wore them out on Saturday so they didn't have that option our second night in the cabin!

We took them to the lake to play in the snow, the shoreline was off in the distance. It was so deep, in one spot I sank down to my hip. It's a wonder we didn't loose a kid since four of the five of them aren't even as tall as my hip. They had a blast trying to make snowmen and throwing snow. It was mostly us all against Victor...he got pretty wet! I left my camera in the cabin so I don't have any pictures of that area, it was so beautiful and it was warm and sunny too.

Later that day we went to a nearby hill to sled. When I said we wore the kids out this is what I meant. We let them drag their sleds up and slide them down as much as they could stand. I discovered that Wyatt is absolutely fearless which is beginning to scare me. I think the words "extreme sports someday" were mentioned way too many times that afternoon for this mother. Yikes! He's not even four yet!

The little ones were all fast asleep before 7. We had the best dinner that night. Tony and Victor grilled rib eye steaks. It was dreamy. We actually got to sit down and talk to our friends, and eat, and laugh, and drink wine. For a few hours we actually felt like those other people we see in restaurants who get to talk to each other without having to block kids into the booths.

My voice is coming back now. Can't wait to do it again next year!