Martin Luther King Weekend

We spent friday evening and saturday up in Arnold at my Uncle Benny's cabin. It was so GREAT! It was such a great time just relaxing and hanging out. The Wirthlin's and the Luster's came with us. The kids had such a great time sledding and playing at the cabin. It really was a totally relaxing trip!! And Uncle Benny's cabin is so awesome. I hadn't been there for almost ten years. It has changed a ton. Thanks Uncle Benny for letting us use your pad! 

This is was Livia's first time in the snow! She actually really liked it, which was really awesome considering we didn't have any snow gear for her. We layered her up with warm clothes and put Brooke's raincoat on her. It actually worked out well. We couldn't have asked for better weather! It was 60 degrees.  Ben and I only wore snow pants and a long sleeve shirt and we were both sweating every time we hiked up the hill. Brookelyn absolutely loved sledding. All of the kids did. Brooke, Tyler and Emma kept going and going, like the energizer bunny. The even hiked up the huge hill numerous times without ever complaining. We got a good two hours of fun in until we had melt downs. It was perfect timing, because everyone had melt downs at the same time. I thought i had a picture of all the kids crying together, but i guess I didn't get the shot. It was a long 5 min. walk to the car. After having a BLAST the last hour and a half, Brooke's comment to Ben while hiking back to the car and crying was, "No one ever lets me have any fun." 

We got back to the cabin and put the kids down for a nap, enjoyed lunch and then all took naps ourselves! It was a GREAT DAY!

Kora didn't really enjoy the snow unless she was sitting in her moms lap. (Actually it wasn't the snow she didn't like she kept saying she was afraid of the holes... you did sink in pretty far every time you stepped.) This was a great shot of her enjoying being in her moms lap.


Hiking up the hill...and loving it. 

Brooke and Livy getting ready to go down the hill. 

Thanks Cheri for these great Pictures of Brooke Sledding:

This nice guy let all the kids and Ben try out his ski-sled. Ben got some pretty good speed!