Our 5th Annual New Years ski trip to Colorado was a big hit again this year. We spent the week hanging out and hitting the slopes with Auntie Adrienne, our friends Alex, Jaci and their daughter Keeli from Denver and our friend Jason from Phoenix.
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| Family-style dinner at the awkwardly unstable table each night. |
The snow on the mountain was plentiful (12-14" on our first day, 12+" on New Years Eve and a few inches on various days in between) and the each day the group had fun venturing out in various combinations.
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| A glorious powder-day New Years Eve on the Alberta Lift. The weather forecast was calling for approx 6" of fresh pow but I'm certain that more than 12" fell during the day. |
The house we stayed in was not much to write home about, but it was close to town, warm and had a great sledding hill (not to mention a sled chair and a modified sledding inner-tube) for the kids.
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| Team Hayes all set for a big sledding day at the house!! |
Katie did 2 full days in ski school and 2 half days and has become quite the skier. She loves to weave through the trees and never appears to be out of control. She conquered a few new black diamond runs this year and did a fantastic job in all the fresh powder (videos from camera man Jason to come later).
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| Katie was ninja tough this year. |
Natalie got to play in the snow for the first time (last year there wasn't much snow at the house and we didn't have snow-gear for her so she didn't get much snow exposure). She loved to listen to her feet crunch the snow as she walked, asked for "more" each time Daddy took her down the hill in the sled, giggled when she learned she could eat it and loved to scoop it up in her mittens and throw it in the air.
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| Thanks to Auntie, Nat had a blast eating snow! |
Will post more of the photos and probably a few videos later.
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