Sledding and Snow Tubing!

After we enjoyed a crisp, quiet, wintery morning Jay and I began to make our part of breakfast for the families and the kids got up and headed directly outside to play! One of the families brought a sled that was so much fun!
Trey, Anli, and Virginia are about to head down the hill!

Anli sleds and covers her eyes on the way down! It was really fast!!!

After a huge breakfast together, our family headed to the snow tubing slopes! We went to Hawksnest and it boasts 20 tubing routes. It was amazing and with all the fresh snow it was wonderful. Since it was a Friday...there was NO ONE there!

The girls enjoy the snow for a few minutes! Can you see how much is piled up behind us? Awesome! It was gorgeous there and tons of gorgeous trees full of snow.

While we waited for our session to begin, we decided to make some snowmen. The powder snow isn't the easiest to make into snowmen though. But, we gave it our best shot! We made teams and got to work. Virginia and I made a cute little girl with a big smile.

Daddy and Anli work on their awesome little snowman. He was SOO cute!

Then, we were headed off to the slopes! We got a little warm after a while and had to take off all our snow gear and just enjoyed the cool breeze. It was such a blast! What a beautiful mountain backdrop to tube down. It was a gorgeous sunny day.

Look at all this snow in the trees. How beautiful these two girls are...inside and out! Jay and I can't think of two other people to spend a day like this alongside. They are truthfully the most amazing girls in the world. They are the best sports...and appreciate everything we do together. It just blesses our hearts to have been blessed with such happy, joyful, kindhearted, loving, helpful, and cool girls! Thanks God!

Heading down the slopes!

Daddy and Virginia on the "magic carpet". That thing was the BEST! You fly down the slopes...and then rest on the way up while the carpet does all the work. It's like those moving floors at the airport...but slower! We went down these slopes about 100 times in 2 hours because no one was there...you can tell from behind them.

Virginia gets ready to ride! She did great...though she stayed on the little slopes the whole time. She tried the really fast long ones once and then headed back to "her" slopes. Jay and I took turns hanging with each girl so that we could enjoy both kinds. Then there were lots of times when we would race down the slopes...since there were 6 slopes lined up here.

Anli decided halfway through to go down on her stomach! I tried that once and it was WAY more scary to me. But, she is such a trip and loves high thrill stuff.

Jay headed down the slopes.

Towards the end of our session, we were quite tired. We had gone down so many times and had so much fun...it felt like we had been there all day! Anli decided to just sit and enjoy the ride to the top of the slope...so cute!

Here is my view as I'm racing with my family down the slope. Just disregard the screams...it's really fast! You can't control how you spin around either. Wild ride! Jay is the little head in the far lane at the end. It wasn't easy tubing AND filming at the same time!

We had such a wonderful day together and we can't wait to go back next year. What a way to spend a day...snow, family, and FUN!