Spring Break - Skiing

Tuesday, March 16 and Wednesday, March 17 we skied all day.  I tried to take pictures and video, but spent a lot of time playing too.  Plus on the last day I dropped my video camera in the snow and lost ALL my videos.  I was able to take a few more videos on the last day after I lost the others.


Tuesday, March 16
The kids took to skiing like pros.  Unfortunately, Landon ended up feeling sick most of the day (from the altitude I think) and  only skied a little.  It was still a nice day.

Wednesday, March 17
Landon felt much better for day 2 of skiing.  Both the kids absolutely amazed me!

Several videos from the last day.

Spring Break - Sledding

Monday, March 15 was our first full day in Ruidoso.  We woke up to heavy snow.  It was beautiful!  But since it was snowing so hard, we could not go up the mountain.  You had to have four-wheel drive or chains to go, so we went sledding instead.  At the bottom of the mountain there is a place called Winter Park.  It has six sledding slopes.  The lines were very long - guess we weren't the only ones that could not make it up the mountain.

After we could not sled anymore, we drove outside of town to a State Park.  Lylli slept through the whole thing, but Brandon and Landon had a blast playing in the snow.  There was at least 3 feet of snow on the ground.

Spring Break - The Beginning

We went Skiing in Ruidoso, New Mexico for Spring Break.  The next several posts are from that trip.
The Internet was awful there, so I couldn't update the blog until we got back =(

Saturday, March 13, we hit the road a little before lunch.  We had planned to drive to about Post, TX and spend the night. Well... we never stick to a plan.  Brandon still felt like driving when we got to Post (and I must admit I encouraged him to keep going), so we figured we would go on to Brownfield, TX.  A word to the wise - there is no place I would let my dog stay in Brownfield, TX. So... back on the road we go.  By this time, the kids are begging for a hotel and shower (shower of all things).  I must have called every hotel in every small town between Brownfield, TX and Roswell, NM - no luck, everything was booked.  What the heck!  Were they having an Alien Convention or something?!?!? About 11:00 pm I took the wheel and Brandon started calling hotels.  He finally found one with a vacancy in Roswell - we took it sight unseen.  Needless to say it was NOT the Ritz, but hey it was a bed.

The next morning we were up early and on the road.  The terrain between Roswell and Ruidoso is beautiful.  It always amazes me how desert can give way to such lush landscape. 

We arrived in Ruidoso, NM and went straight up the mountain,  WOW, that is 12 miles of curvy road.  It made us all a little nervous. =)

When we finally arrived at Ski Apache, the kids could not wait to play in the snow.  Any neither could their daddy =)

Ski Apache has a gondola that goes to the top of the mountain.  The views were absolutely amazing!  We had a wonderful time.

When we got back to the cabin, we made smores over a fire in the fire place.  What a great day!

Teenage Lylli

I just found these videos of Lylli "getting ready" to spend the day with Mommy (me).  I was putting on my makeup and she came in and pulled up her stool...

March Fun

If I thought February was a busy month, March has lived up to its March Madness title - but in a very good way.  We have had a blast and the month isn't even over yet!  I will again recap mainly with pictures.

We started off the month with Lylli's 3rd birthday on March 2.  We are going to have her big party on Easter weekend, but celebrated a little the whole week of her birthday.

March is also our neighbor Nic's birthday month.  He had a pony party for his 8th birthday.  The kids had a blast (of course)!

And then there was Western day at school...

Oh, and I took the kids to McDonalds for an after school treat to top it all off.

Then there was Spring Break, but I will save that for another day =)

So much to tell...

Okay - I have been a little preoccupied with work and playing with the kids and have failed to update everyone as I should.  So here goes a marathon blogging night.  Where to start?  I guess I should recap February 2010 first. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I will recap our month primarily through pictures.  Here we go...

The kids had a great Valentine's.

They got to play in the snow on campus (SHSU).

AND... they got to go to the Houston Aquarium.

February was a VERY busy month!