Carrie took over the condo when mom passed away. She has been up there once, but me and my kids haven't been up there since that weekend 4 years ago. Carrie booked it this weekend, and I wanted to go up and make some happy memories instead of the sad anxious ones that we've carried with us. We went up on Friday after school and it was so much fun!! Carrie along with her family, and Mat with his joined us and it was such a great time. We made so many fun memories and it was the best way to begin Christmas vacation. Friday we kicked back and worked on puzzles, and played games, the kids swam and soaked in the hot tub, we ate dinner and played Nintendo Switch, and stayed up really late. Saturday started off pretty lazy, but then the kids went down to the Lodge and we played basketball, Grace helped Gator with some volleyball, and Davis & Owen played pool. After lunch, Davis, Gator and Carrie went night skiing at Powder Mountain. I thought a lot of when we were kids skiing there, but this time I was just as happy to watch them. We stayed for a little bit to watch them ski, but then we went back up to the condo to play more games and eat dinner. After a while, they came home and quickly ate dinner then went back to the pool/hot tub. I was shocked that after all that Gator was still awake, but we stayed up even later Saturday night playing games, Switch, and doing a puzzle. Sunday morning, we got up and got ready to go to Nordic to go tubing. Owen left to go down to Kylee's family Christmas party and a doctors appointment this morning, but the rest of us had fun tubing. Even I went down the hill a few times. I am just so nervous in my old age, but now that I survived I can say that it was a lot of fun. I love watching and taking pictures most of the time, it is so much fun for me to watch my kids having a good time. Sunday evening we had dinner and most everyone was in bed by 9:00. We were exhausted from playing so much all weekend. Now we are home and hopefully we brought some of the snow with us so we can have a white Christmas. It's crazy how Thanksgiving was so full of snow, but now there isn't a single flake out there. Oh, Owens appointment went amazing. His doctor can't believe how he has recovered and he said 3 more months of therapy and he will be fully released to play football! I can't believe how fast his recovery has been. I know it has been painful and seemed slow at times for Owen, but he is really blessed to even have an injury like he did and still be able to play football. So we are home now with lots of fun memories and ready to celebrate Christmas. It will be a little different this year, with our new circumstances, but I'm ready. I'm ready for a fantastic Christmas with my kids and family! Now, here are a million pictures of our weekend.
