St. Patty's Day Weekend

Since Micah and Becky (and Larrie and Mary) are up helping mom with sugaring, we managed a nice weekend at home.  The weather on Saturday morning was perfect for spring skiing (40 and sunny) so we headed to Ragged.  It was our best day of skiing/riding this year.  Haley spent the first half of the morning going up and down the magic carpets, and was really doing well skiing by herself.  I kept asking if she wanted to try the chairlift, but not pushing her any further when she said "no thanks."  Finally after a big snack she wanted to try the barnyard chair, and after the first run down she had a huge smile on her face and said, "Let's do that AGAIN, mama!"  Yes!  It's been a rough year getting her to transition from the harness (of last year) to skiing on her own- not due to any lack of skill; she totally knows how to turn and stop FINE, but just a crisis of confidence.  I think she's finally over that!

Andy and Aiden had a joint snowboarding lesson in the morning, and that went well too.  Aiden is really starting to get how to S-turn, and also handles the lifts fine.  And it finally clicked with Andy too- the snowboarding thing - he is not falling anymore, which must be nice for his body!  On Saturday afternoon the kids and I headed over to their friends Angie and Alex's house for a playdate, and by the end of the day they were dropping into bed like zombies.

Making dog biscuits for Kimball

Sunday we headed to the Andersons for the annual St. Pattys Day/Maple Brunch- Rich and Heidi outdid themselves as usual, with eggs benedict, caramel french toast, chocolate waffles, and sausage.  Mimosas and irish coffees, kids running around like mad people, and little baby Colin taking his first toddles around the Anderson's house.  It's excellent to have good friends who don't mind when a two hour brunch turns into an all day party.  We ate and laughed until our bellies hurt, as usual.