Winter Park

We rented a house with some friends in Winter Park for a ski weekend earlier in February. Lots of boys, lots of food, lots of skiing and lots of fun!

LT built many lego structures and wanted me to take a picture of each and every one.
LT skied 2 of the 3 days we were up there. Unfortunately, most of the other kids either weren't into skiing or were too young. Luckily Dylan came up for a night and LT and Dylan skied a bit together. Dylan's skills are beyond little LTs, but they did manage to enjoy chocolate covered marshmallows after skiing!
As I said, Dylan has been skiing a little longer and has the ski genes our kids will never have. LT really wanted to go with Dylan, but after arriving at the top of this lift, it was probably a mistake on my part to follow their family. LT did ski all the way down, but he was tired, hungry and a bit worn out at the end.
Ski buds.
Our room had a huge jet tub that we bathed the boys in one night.
We ate some amazing food. Each family planned a breakfast and a dinner for everyone. Shawn brought make your own pizza things. She and Ben had a pizza dough tossing contest!

Below, little Adsy enjoying the snow.

I promised the boys on our way to Winter Park that I would take them to a classic old school restaurant for lunch on the way home. We stopped at Dairy King in Empire for some greasy burgers and fries.

Life

Shameless Plug

Looks like Denver is supposed to get something like five to nine feet of snow through tonight and tomorrow but if you're looking for something to do on Friday night, and are willing to brave the coming snowpocalypse, please come check out (maybe even buy) some of my photography at Tenn St. Coffee and Books and Art.  The opening reception is tomorrow during the Tennyson Frist Friday Art Walk and the show will hang through most of February.

The M.A.N. Show, a set on Flickr.

Hop on Pop

A couple months ago when Tino & Phoenix came over we played a game where the kids jumped off the side of the couch and I caught them. I'd sort of forgotten about it but apparently they had not because they came over again last week and when I got home from work the whole crew accosted me demanding to play again. LT said it was kind of like that book Hop on Pop but a actually little bit different. I was getting pretty tired after my hundredth or so catch so eventually decided to rework the game a little. We put a bunch of pillows on the floor for them to land on and I got my camera.


Tino is a natural.


And Phoenix has some skills too.

LT and Adler were a different story. Adler just sort of fell face first into the pillows and then did his best to get in the way of the other kids. LT, being somewhat gangly and uncoordinated like his father, isn't exactly the picture of grace and poise as he jumps though the air. Also he somehow ended up jumping in only his underwear. So I didn't get any decent photos of them that night.


But we did decide to try again the next day and Adler started to get the idea.

LT's style didn't improve much but at least he managed to keep his pants on this time.