Kyle's 6th Birthday

We enjoyed celebrating all week for Kyle's birthday. As Eric was getting over Influenza, we skipped the restaurant and instead Kyle wanted Freddy's for dinner. It fell on a night that Cecilia had soccer tryouts so we picked up food for her and all enjoyed treats from Dairy Queen. We also had fun in his classroom reading and showing baby pictures. Later that week we had cousins over for dinner and fun. We enjoyed pizza from Papa Murphy's, an Oreo trifle for dessert, pass the parcel, present opening, and some time in the sauna. Maeve was a big helper with candy sushi fun and Cecilia and Maeve helped pick out the gifts for the parcel and wrap it!

He had a fun-filled year and can't believe our baby is 6!

Ski trip New Year's 2024-2025

Eric planned a lot of logistics for the ski trip to Park City and Deer Valley but of course even with all of that things can go awry. Cecilia had a cold before the trip which caused her asthma to flare up. We started giving the steroid before we left and had to continue it for 5 days - the longest we've ever had to do it. Then I caught a cold and it was mild but seemed worse with the cold air and skiing. Then Maeve and Jan caught the cold but had a fever too! So all the girls were sick for a part of the trip. The to top it all off the ski patrol at Park City was on strike when we went so they weren't opening new runs and the snow was just mediocre. Just not the things you can plan for!!

The good parts of the trip included:

• Kate's ski lesson at Park City with an olympic medalist in speed skating. I got to skip the lines and learned a lot and skied a lot that first morning
• The kids' private lessons at Park City - they all enjoyed the lessons and got to skip the lines too so they got a lot of skiing in
• All skiing together at Deer Valley and having a professional photographer capture some great shots
• Kyle's reindeer club lessons at Deer Valley where he was moved to advanced beginner so learned a lot of new skills and talked about it for hours
• Apres ski at Deer Valley (when the girls unfortunately went home after skipping 2 hours of their ski lesson as they weren't feeling well) but Steve, Eric, Kyle and I enjoyed a drink and hearing Kyle's stories about the day - like the ski run he saw that the Olympic teams used in the Salt Lake City Olympics
• Snow tubing 
• Dinner at a DDD restaurant Silver Star Cafe
• Horse drawn sleigh ride
• beautiful trees with all of the lights on every branch

Overall, we had some great memories from our first ski trip and hopefully the next one brings good health and good snow (and thankful for no broken bones!)

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