We spent this past week all over the place. We started out at Seth’s place in Vegas to meet Rose (4 days younger than Navy), play with cousins, and hang out with Seth and Brett. We had a great time, but Scout had the time of his life. Between the toy room, the numerous bikes, the sport’s court, and the five boy cousins, Scout was totally in his element, and kept going up and kissing everyone at random — his way of showing how much fun he was having. He went without naps, turned in way past his bedtime every night, and played nonstop for 2 1/2 days straight, and never complained once. (Although he did pick up “No” and “Mine” once again, but the habit is already being broken with timeouts and talking to’s.)
Here are Seth and the two girls — Rose and Navy.
Scout and Covey were inspecting rocks at this point.
He was so bummed to leave his cousins, until he found out we were just on to new cousins in Arrowhead! We met up with the Brockbanks (Jake, Cade, Dey and Doey) and had a great time. Our hotel was totally nice and really cheap. Scout tried sledding for the first time and had a bittersweet relationship with it. He loved eating the snow, watching everyone else sled, making snowmen, and taking a tiny sledding route with Megan, but didn’t like sledding by himself, sledding big mountains with dad, or falling and his hands getting cold from the snow.
Scout is actually excited to get in his new snow outfit. I know the picture looks like he doesn’t like it, but he really did love it, and wanted to wear it all day long.
Navy doing what she did best….stayed warm and slept.
And when we went outside….she stayed and splept in mommy’s wrap that she loves!
One of the bigger mountains that Scout didn’t love at the end.
Micah starting a snowball and an obsession.
He created this snowman, but insisted on staying out in the snow with Trey to build another. The second ended up being 7 1/2 feet tall, and took Micah and two strangers to get the head on. When I went out to see the masterpiece, it had been masacred….hence no picture. But I did see it from the hotel window, and will vouch.
Scout getting hydrated via the snow.
Our last day there, we looked over to see two of the Brockbanks -Trey and Cade (Knuckleheads)- walking on the frozen ice over the lake….DUH! When we went over to get them off of it, and scold them we found this chain under the frozen ice. Our impulse was to free the chain, so after many attempts from Cade, Jake, Me and Trey, Micah finally jumped over to help out. He worked his P90X magic, and freed the chain. Unfortunately on my way back, my leg slipped and my leg went into the water…..BUT fortunately, I was wearing my waterproofed Uggs and stayed dry.
A little later, Cade’s leg went through the ice also…..as seen below.
The ice fun was the highlight of the trip, until we were headed back to the room and everyone was going to take their last sledding trip down the hill. Chloe was our finale, and went from the very highest point. She was on a disc — our fastest sled — and went cruising at a very high speed. When she got to the bottom, she zipped past me, our stuff, the trail…all the way to the water. Thank goodness she bailed out at the last minute, because her sled wouldn’t have been the only thing to be sacrificed to the lake. So we said our goodbye’s to the disc that peacefully floated away. Until we saw Trey and Cade (Knuckleheads) with a huge branch..on their way to the lake….to try and retrieve it.
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