Family ski day!

Andy took the day off yesterday so we could take the kids skiing before school starts back up tomorrow! We went to a little hill in northern Illinois, only about 1 1/2 away. Not a lot a people (the kids up there are already back to school) and a nice sunny day. Maggie and Max both went down blue diamond hills and Maggie even went down part of a black diamond. WOW! The kids had a blast.

We started on the little bunny hill and rode the magic carpet up to the top!

You can check them out here!

By the end of the day...Mags was doing jumps! Way to go girlie!

More snow fun!

Another thing we did while Andy was off work for the holidays was to take the kids on their very first ski trip. We didn't go far, just about a hour and a half away to Snow Star. I'm sure I could have found a hill or two around here...but they wouldn't have had the get-ya-back-up-the-hill-convenience. (which is very much needed in my case!)

We left about 7:15 in the morning and the thermometer in the van read 3*....I glared over at Andy and warned him that it better be a lot warmer by the time we got there. It was. It was a whopping 24* that day. The sun was out and it turned out to be a pretty nice day.

We layered the kids up...got their boots, skies, goggles, hats, gloves and sent them off to their first ski lesson. We paid a little extra for that, but it was well worth it. They did great!

Wish I had some more pictures, but it's a little hard to ski down the hill while taking pictures (at least for me)...I'm just thankful for the few we did get!

Andy and Maggie on the magic carpet!
(the-get-ya-back-up-the-hill-convenience I was talking about earlier!)

Andy's wishing that the next time we take a picture like this...it's in Colorado!