Gessner Family: Ski House 2013

Mike and I arrived early on Thursday afternoon and settled into our newly renovated ski house. We were awaiting my mom and Darrell to arrive because they had left a couple hours after us. It had started snowing big beautiful snowflakes as soon as we got there. Mom and Darrell got caught in a back up and had to go all the way back down the mountain just to come back up it. It took us only 2 and 1/2 hours to get there with the new highway! Sadly, it took mom and Darrell 6 hours to get there :( Meghann, Curt, and the girls could not join us because Amelia had caught what we all had and needed to be close to the hospital just in case.

The first day was really blustery and cold, but we went out to sled anyway. Tristan had so much fun! He was going "weeeee" the entire way down the hill...it was adorable.

Mike, Tristan, and Kolby?! going down the hill!

Not sure why Kolby wanted in on the action

Mommy and Tristan ready, set, go!

That is a snow brush in his hands HAHA he wouldn't let it go!

Cute as a button!

Ready to go by himself!

Daddy catching Tristan at the bottom of the hill!

Fuzzy's turn to catch Tristan

Having so much fun!

That helmet was so big! I told him he now knows what Wesley feels like.

That evening, Darrell and mom went down to the ski barn and came back with skis in Tristan's size! Darrell took Tristan out into the front yard and gave him a little lesson on skiing :) It was amazing watching my baby being such a little boy. He also caught on really fast! Next year he will be rocking it at the little ski school for sure.

Ready to learn to ski!

Boots... check!

Helmet...check!

Gloves and Skis...check!

Here we go!

Slide, slide, slide

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The next day Tristan went "skiing" for real on the bunny slope. He got his own ski lift ticket (free until 5 we found out!!) and Darrell and Mike took him on the ski lift. I was one proud momma! Everyone kept asking me "how old is he?!"

We had so much stuff that we piled it onto the sleds: