Cinder's Family - not anymore

Sunday, January 20, 2013

January Skiing

January 12th
Maylee's friend Ty from Carol's house and his family were up at the ski hill too. Ty's mom works with Kevin and his older sisters are former kindergarten students of mine. Ty's dad did our bathroom and two upstairs bedroom remodels. They are a great family! Kaleah stayed in the lodge with Bryan and friends Jan and Curt.

On the chair lift...

Skiing with her friend Ty...Kev has Ty and I have Maylee.

Watching Lisa with Ty...

You know it will be our last run of the day when Maylee falls asleep on the chair lift.

January 17th

Mom and Maylee Ski Day

On a Thursday, we picked up our friend Mona to watch Kaleah in the lodge, while just Maylee and I skied. This was my last chance to go on a work day before I had to return to work. It was awesome going during the week because the lodge and mountain were not busy.

Maylee's goal was to ride all the chair lifts on this day and we did it! On one of the rides she sighs and says so sincerely, "Ty loves me. (pauses) He's my best friend." For a second I was wondering if I would have to have the boyfriend-girlfriend talk already.

Skiing on the backside...

Working on turning all by herself without me tugging on the straps...

Lodge Time

January 19th

Another Saturday

"Wake up Monkey. Time to go skiing."

We were the first ones down one of our runs. It was a beautiful day and warm for January.

Kaleah was along for the ride until friends of our arrived at the lodge to watch her.

Working on turns around the posts...

Maylee's friends (all their parents work with Kev)...

Ski or Play with Friends?
Two of Maylee's little friends were up at the lodge waiting for Ty's older sisters to finish their ski lesson. The boys were just sledding and playing in the snow so Maylee chose to join them. A friend had sleeping Kaleah so Kevin and I got to ski some runs at faster speeds.
Ty and Maylee

Ty, Maylee, and Owen

Maylee is already making the boys work for her...

Lodge Time

Maylee is trying to play peek-a-boo with Kaleah.

Happy Baby

January 20th - Wife Carrying Contest...We got 2nd place!

This is one of the annual special event days at the ski hill. Kevin really wanted to do it and there were cash prizes. We won our division (ages 30-39) which put us into the finals. In our division race, husbands got their wives in position and then they counted down. For the final heat, the wives had to start further back and taking a flying leap onto husbands when they announced "go." We ended up second and won $50. The husband in the first place couple is a college track and field athlete so Kevin felt good about being in the older age bracket and not too far behind him. As you can see from pictures, Kevin said he could run faster with me in an upside down position. I had to keep my eyes closed because it was making me dizzy trying to watch. There was also a clown out an about and gave Maylee a snowman tattoo.

Our division (30-39 year olds)

The Finals...

We arrived until lunch because Maylee really needed to sleep in due to yesterday's full day of skiing, no nap, and going to bed after bedtime. After the wife carrying contest, Maylee and I skied three runs looking for Ammie and her friend Chris but we never found them. At one point on the chair lift Maylee says, "Maybe Ammie and Chris are on a black diamond." I laughed and said, "Ammie never goes on black diamonds."

Sporting her snowman tattoo...

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Kaleah is 2 Months Old

At two months old, Kaleah smiles at people, tries to "talk" (coos when you talk to her), tracks people and things as they move, and loves to swing. She also loves to listen to her sister talk, sing, and read. Most nights, Kaleah sleeps from midnight to about 6:30 am.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Kaleah's Baptism

The Lutheran Church celebrated Jesus's baptism the second Sunday in January. Maylee was baptized on this special Sunday in 2010, so we decided to have Kaleah baptized on this date as well. Both girls wore the same baptism dress that I wore and used my white baptism blanket. Kevin's Aunt Lorraine and Uncle Mark are Kaleah's godparents. Many of our teens from our youth group also stood up for Kaleah. After church we had a reception at our house.

During the Children's Sermon, the pastor's wife talked about Jesus's baptism. Maylee piped up and told everyone a lady with short dark hair poured water on her head when she was a baby. (We had recently looked at Maylee's scrapbook and she connected the pictures of her baptism to what Cheri was talking about.)