No, this post is not about pizza. This post is about…

…Skiing.

When you start skiing, the first thing you learn, (if you have an instructor) is how to stop!

At least, that’s what we were taught.

To do that, you can go sideways across the hill, or you can pizza. Mom calls it snow plow. What you do is you make a wedge with you skis so the tips point together. I have no idea why it works, but it does!!

This picture is me, Colter, Greyden, Emery, and Fletcher with our instructor, Paul:

Colter and Mason in the lodge:

Mom, Dad, and Aunt Kristin:

Me getting ready to head back out:

We put Indigo and Hewitt in “Kids Kamp”, where they got a teacher for the day, and lunch. They did so well!  Jade also learned to ski with her own instructor, but we don’t have any photos of her.  Here are Indigo and Jade starting out:

Here is Hewitt on his skis:

Indigo:

Here they go:

Whoa!

Ooof.

In the little kids area, there was a “Magic Carpet”. It was a moving conveyor belt/moving sidewalk in the snow.

Here they are on it:

Indigo and Hewitt couldn’t even stand on their skis without falling after their morning lesson.  But after their afternoon lesson they were actually skiing!  Hewitt could ride the J-Bar all by himself, get off, and ski down the kid slope.  Indigo had to be helped up the J-Bar, but she could also ski down all by herself.

The only problem – they didn’t want to go slow!!  In fact, Indigo kept pushing Mom and Dad away when they tried to slow her down.  She says that skiing was the best thing that we did in New Hampshire.

We had so much fun skiing! Even now, we are STILL talking about it!! The older boys are forever bragging that they went on a blue square, Greyden and I are bragging that we had 3 lessons.  So basically, Colter, Emery and Fletcher are faster, but Greyden and I have more control.  Either way, the bragging never stops!!

You know what? If we ever have to stop, even at home, instead of saying stop; we say…

PIZZA!!!!