Mammoth Adventure Day 11

Beautiful day today!!! (they all are, but this one was warmer, sunnier, a hint of snow falling and just plain beautiful!) We took Mark and Jake outside today to do some sledding. Mommy's job was to hand out the hot cocoa, help with sled hauling when they "accidentally" left it at the bottom HA! and check in on Eric who just didn't want to put his snow clothes on. I find I last longer out there when not doing "hard labor" - baby is giving me limited energy and I must ration it :-)

After some time I went in and gave Eric a water bottle and snack, when I peeked in on him he was just sitting there all cute eating his banana chips. About 5 minutes later, I looked again and he was sound asleep, bag of banana chips open right next to him, water poised in his lap. CUTE GUY!!

Before going inside we made snow-ice-cream! YUMMY! I found the BEST recipe last year on youtube, I'll put it at the end if this post. Eric decided to wake up to help us eat it. Smart boy!

This evening, Mark was drawing Thomas the Train for us using a picture as a model. Jake wanted one so Mark drew him one. Later they moved to an oversized chair and Jake looked at the picture of Thomas and would help Mark draw. It was just WAY too cute!

Jake carrying his sled

Drawing Thomas

Ice Cream Recipe -

4 Cups of Snow

1/4 tsp Vanilla

1/2 Cup of Milk

1/4 Cup of Sugar

Mix together and enjoy - YUMMY!!!

Mammoth Adventure Day 10

Still feeling yucky today so didn't even take the camera out. BUT not to worry! I have pictures downloaded from Neils phone.

Quiet day today. Neil and Doug went skiing then Neil dropped Doug off at the airport to head back to San Diego. First day where the boys didn't go outside, but they had fun playing with their toys inside today and Mommy just didn't have the energy to get them all "geared up".

Whooly getting ready to go on a ski lift.

a few nights back we went in to check on the boys before heading to bed, and we couldn't find jake.  He was sleeping on the floor, NEXT to his bed.  HA!

Mammoth Adventure Day 9

24 inches in 24 hours!!! Our snowman is a little buried and wearing a cute snow hat. I wasn't feeling too well today. Neil took the boys outside to play. Did some sledding, found HUGE ice cycles, and lots of digging. We saw lots of snowplows and snowblowers - the boys loved that, except when they did our driveway, again.

Mammoth Adventure Day 8

Snowed all day today, probably a foot or so. It's BEAUTIFUL!!!

Mommy and Eric had some alone time at Vons, drinking our Starbucks milk and grocery shopping. Went home and we all went outside to play. Daddy and Uncle Doug went skiing during quiet time. Put a video on here of the boys saying "bye-bye" to Daddy and Uncle Doug as they are going off skiing; they get quite the send-offs! The new "Mammoth Car" is doing GREAT in the snow! Expecting to get 14 inches of snow tonight, so we'll wake up once again to the snowplows!!! YEAH!

Mr. Independent pushing his sled up the hill

Mammoth Adventure Day 7

Probably got a good 10 inches of snow today! The boys got to see the snow plow in the morning as it cleared the streets. Then got to watch later as it did our driveway, much to the boys dismay as they wanted to shovel it themselves! HA!

Daddy and Uncle Doug went skiing again today. We played out in the snow and worked on the snowman and went sledding. The snow falling the entire time.

The boys are "in bed" supposed to be sleeping. A snowplow drove by to clear the streets again, and the boys are just not fast enough (Marks words I think) so they are standing on the toy box, looking out the window, waiting for it to come back (which it wont tonight) so they wont miss it, talking VERY excitedly about the snow and the snowplows and how exciting it all is!

"Mah-Nah" - as Eric says

Our Snow Angel, making a snow angel

Jake trying to cheer Eric up by giving him a shovel - sweetheart

Mammoth Adventure Day 6

Took Renee on the Gondola ride this morning. Then Daddy took the boys outside and built a MAMMOTH size snowman, he's about 6 or 7 feet tall, has no face yet - I forgot to take a picture, but you can see it for a second in the video. Mark went sledding down the side of the house with Daddy and later with Renee. After the boys were asleep it started snowing, by the time we went to bed it had snowed about an inch or 2!!!

Mammoth Adventure Day 5

Our friend Renee came to visit us for the weekend, from Reno!!! Daddy and Doug went skiing while Mommy and Renee caught up and played in the snow with the boys.

Mammoth Adventure Day 4

Another relaxing day at home while Daddy and Uncle Doug went skiing. Mommy and the boys played in the snow for awhile and went down our "snow slide" a bunch.

Mammoth Adventure Day 3

Nice relaxing day at the house today. Daddy and Uncle Doug did some work while the boys played inside. Then after lunch we all went out to play in the snow. Jake did some sledding. The boys have started digging a tunnel and Daddy and Uncle Doug (with some help from Mark) started digging a fort, while Mommy made a slide. In the next few days we'll have quite the snow fort!

Snack time!

Mammoth Adventure Day 2

Woke up today and Neil and Doug went skiing, Jake went to another ski class and Mark just wanted to ski with Daddy. Mark took the ski lifts and skied down the mountain with Daddy and Uncle Doug, then hung out with Mommy and played in the snow while Jake was in class. After lunch Jake went down the mountain with Daddy and Uncle Doug, after a morning of skiing he was pretty tired and only made it about a third of the way down before he needed to be carried by Daddy. But he had fun and LOVED the ski lift ride!

Jake in Ski Class

Mark playing in the snow

Taking a break to warm up and eat some grapes

Mark skiing down the mountain

Mammoth Adventure Day 1

Made it into Mammoth yesterday afternoon, and played in the snow! 

Woke up this morning and took the boys to Ski Lessons!! After wearing his ski boots around the house for 2 weeks, Jake finally go to put them to practice - and LOVED it!!! Both boys did great and had fun. Mommy and Eric hung out and watched them, taking a break now and then for hot cocoa and a gondola ride (both to warm up) while Daddy and Uncle Doug hit the slopes. Later, after quiet time, we went sledding at the house.