Another fun weekend in the mountains with skiing, basketball, snowshoe racing and football (sort of).
Sharona, Ava and I went skiing on Saturday and had a fun girls day on the slopes. Ava did great and I only wish we lived closer to the mountains so that she could practice even more. For only going a few times, Ava's really doing well, practicing her turns, and is picking up some speed. At the end of the day Ava said she "loved skiing"... what more could I ask for. :)

While the girls were skiing the boys were playing with their tools in Grampy's heated garage. Dylan found a basketball to bounce around the garage while Grampy and Simon (behind Dylan), worked on bolting Simon's and my running shoes to our snowshoes for the next morning's snowshoe race.

After Ava's long nap, from working hard at skiing, we headed out to my old (but new) High School's basketball game. Ava's been wanting to see a basketball game so it worked out great that BMHS had a home game while we were in town plus the new high school happens to be very close to my parents house, so it was perfect.

Dylan had fun shouting "ball" during the game, eating popcorn and dancing to the music during half time. Dylan didn't last long and went home with Grampy and Sharona for his normal bed time while Ava had a great time eating popcorn, cheering on the Huskies with mom and dad, and then going out for dinner and ice cream.

The next morning we were up and ready for yet another big day. It was the 2nd race of the three series Snowshoe Race in Beaver Creek.

Here's Ava practicing a few steps before the kids little snowshoe race.

Ava was up for running the race in her new snowshoe's but she just wasn't sure she wanted to run by herself, so I happily ran the race with her.

Ava and Dylan enjoyed playing in the snow and swinging with Grampy and Sharona while waiting for mom and dad to to finish their race.

Your two time 5k winners. Simon and I won the men's and women's 5k snowshoe race again with only one more race in the series to go. It's been fun to win and win some great prizes but we're thinking we might want to step it up and run the 10k next race which has a little more competition.

Out for a Sunday stroll before the big Super Bowl game. We tried to stick around in the mountains to watch the game but it wasn't working out with two active kids running around, a tired mom (me) and a long drive ahead. Overall, it was a great weekend with lots of fun activities!!