No, you did not click on the wrong blog...we are talking about Skiing!

 Last week we left off with Mason's party for being potty trained. He asked for more than a week to have presents and gum at his party. We got him both but ran out of time on Saturday. So on Sunday we let him open some gum and a couple presents. 

We also got a picture of the kids together after church

We are so proud of Mason

Well, this isn't a mistake. We are going to spend most of the blog talking about skiing. Kim and I went skiing together for date night on Friday. We got there just after 3 and still had some day light.

We drove up through cloud and on it was clear on the mountain. You can see the cloud layer below. It looked really pretty.

We drove up with some friends

What a view

You can kind of see our shadow from the chair lift

We had a lot of fun. I felt much more confident than when I went a couple years ago. I had so much fun that I actually bought a pair of boots and skis. Looks like there will be more skiing this year.

Here is a video I put together of the trip. Admission: this video is way too long. I was trying out the Gopro and ended shooting everything at 4k60, which was really difficult for my computer to edit. So instead of trying to trim it down well, I just through in large clips.

I understand if you don't watch it all BUT you NEED to at least watch to the 2:45 mark ;)

Next time I go I am going to work on speed since I have proven to myself that I can go slow and slow myself down

Saturday we bought some Crumbl cookies to share

Saturday Kim took Nixon night skiing for his first time

Nixon's friend was there

We knew Nixon would be awesome but we didn't expect how fearless he would be

Here is a much better edited video of Nixon's skiing

This was the sunrise I saw this morning before heading off to church

It is time for the second installment of

Lyza's Library

Today I finished a book called The Brightest Night. It’s the 5^th book in a series called Wings of Fire. Wings of Fire is about 5 dragonets or baby dragons that are destined to save Pyrrhia from a great war. Wings of Fire is my favorite series. I think everyone should read it and if you do, make sure to read it in order; if you don’t it won’t make sense. Right now there are 14 books in the main series, 4 in winglets, 2 in legends and 4 graphic novels.

Take care