February Vacation 2015

We started our vacation week with a visit from Grampy, Grammy and Aunt Andrea. We took them to Titcomb and while Noah and I had ski lessons, everyone else got to get out and enjoyed the mountain as well!  We had "the blizzard that wasn't" on Sunday which prevented us from visiting friends in Vermont, but did force us to have a really fun family day at home.  On Monday we traveled to Bangor for some high school basketball tournament fun, even though our team lost we enjoyed playing at the children's museum before Nannie flew off to Florida. Ben discovered that he could see movies in the truck much better from his back row seat if he used the binoculars...:) The bottom picture is of the kids wearing their life jackets in the ball pit.  Audrey kept putting on her lifejacket and asking to go in the "pool"... repeatedly.  Since our pool is covered in snow and I was feeling too lazy to take them to the fitness center, this actually passed for a fun activity:) We spent the rest of the week skating, skiing, sledding, snowshoeing and lots and lots of playing!

Snow, Snow and More Snow!

After a relative "drought" of snow for most of January, February keeps on dumping it and it is only the beginning.  The kids have had 4 snow days in the last week, which included a 4 day weekend!  Coincidentally, Gabe also had the same 4 day weekend, so we took full advantage of all winter had to offer.  We have done lots of snowshoeing around our house, skiing lessons at Titcomb Mountain have started, we have taken a few snowmobile trips and more skiing at Saddleback.  Gave and I both ended this stretch of snow days and outdoor fun thinking that it was almost as busy as a summer vacation week!  We did spend some time indoors, just enough to build and play with trains as well as another fun lego night at the library:)