Photoshoot

Now that Christmas has come and gone, I can show off more of the photos. These are from my photoshoot with Elisa Ivers at Meringue Studio Boudoir. My make-up was done by Kierra Manion.

I had so much fun, I would definitely reccomend her if you are interested in doing something like this.

 

Spencer Loop Video

A quick video of the kids skiing down a hill

Spencer Loop

Svea and I took the kids on the first half of the Spencer Loop today! For those who have not heard of it, it is a very hilly ski loop. The whole thing is 10K, but we did about 6K of it.
I was impressed with them. Sure there was a little bit of complaining because we forgot the usual chocolate incentives, but they were still amazing.

Esther really wanted to ski, but she can't quite keep up yet. Luckily I was able to talk her into the Chariot where she immediately fell fast asleep.

The last big stretch of uphill.

We did it! The top of the Spencer Loop.

And now time for all the downhill.

Headbanz

The kids playing a game Van got for Christmas. The point of the game is to guess which character is on your head by clues the other people give you. The girls almost lost it when the boys were Elsa and Anna during the first round.

Day after Christmas activities

On the day after Christmas Van had a ski lesson so I took Esther on a short version of our sledding trip since she hadn't be able to go on the long one.

When we made it to the bottom, we helped carry Van back from his ski lesson...

Christmas Sledding

Once we got some daylight, Dad dropped us off at Glen Alps with sleds and we took the kids on a 5 mile adventure sled. We sledded down the powerline and were picked up at Hilltop Downhill ski area.

Svea's friends Heidi and Matt met us along the way.

Me in front of the last big hill.

Back at the parking lot, the kids are tired.