Happy New Year From The Felstead Family!

Here's hoping 2009 brings you much health and happiness!

It's Party Time!

Ledger eating the marshmallow from his Smore.  How do you like my party hat?

Brody was all about his Smores!  Yummy!

Case and Katlyn Singing a duet on the Karaoke Machine.

Here I am looking ready for bed and it's only 9:30!

It's New Year's Eve here at the cabin and to celebrate we had a party!  It started off with a prime rib dinner prepared by Sugar and Jim.  It was delicious!  After dinner, the kiddos made Smores. Brody loves the whole process of making the Smore.  He gets the marshmallow just perfect before melting the chocolate between the graham crackers.  Case on the other hand quickly burns the marshmallow and then remembers he doesn't like the marshmallow so he puts it to the side and eats the chocolate and graham cracker.  Ledger eats all of the Smores ingredients separate.  It's great fun.  After Smores we let the kids shoot the old fashioned poppers at each other.  You know the old school ones where you pull the string and confetti flies out just after you burn your finger.  They were so loud and fun.  The kids loved them.  After the poppers, we quickly pulled out the karaoke machine and let the kids sing nursery songs on the microphone. It was a rock party here at the cabin!   We played and hung out for a little longer until midnight came (wink wink) We're on New York time around here! We watched the ball drop in Time Square and put the kids to bed.  They were exhausted!  We then played a game of Balderdash and now I'm off to bed!  Here's hoping your 2008 was a good one and that 2009 will be even better!  Good night!

Ski Bums!

Here we are on our way up to the top of the mountain.  Case wanted to be sure we stayed on the green circle runs and not the black squares (diamonds)!

Here is Case learning how to ski for the first time.  He is 3 1/2 years old. 

 

Brody is looking like a pro in his cute Spider outfit.  Can you believe this is his third year skiing.  He is 5 1/2.

Hey is that really a picture of me and Brody on the chair lift?  Thanks to Kim for coming to take pictures of us!

Dad and Case heading up the bunny hill for a practice run!  

Today we actually left the cabin and headed up the mountain to Sunrise.  We were so excited to take both Brody and Case snow skiing.  We started off at the rental area to get skis, boots and poles for the boys and myself.  BIG MISTAKE!!  It took us about 2 hours to get our rentals.  Not exactly how I wanted to start my day!  Next we headed to the bunny hill to see how we would do.  SCARY!  I don't know if I'm just getting older or what, but it was so hard skiing with the boys today. Getting them on and off the chair lift, let alone picking them up each time they fell was exhausting to us both!  It was pretty warm out which was nice, but it made it hard for Jeremy and I to hold the extra shirts, hats, gloves, and jackets that we had layered on them before we got there.  Brody struggled a bit today.  His skis and little body were flying all over the place.  Case on the other hand was loving life on the snow.  He discovered today that if you bend your knees just so, you will go down the hill faster.  He showed me many times today which was a little scary!  He would just fly down the mountain like it was no big deal!  He loved skiing!  Toward the end of the day, he actually fell asleep on the chair lift.  Jeremy had to pick him up and carry him off the lift when we reached the end! It was so funny!  As for Jeremy and I...we are exhausted!  We have a new found respect for our own parents who took us on many ski trips as children.  We can't imagine how they ever survived day after day with us in the snow..with skis...and poles...and uncomfortable boots...and layers of ski clothes!   We are really thankful that they did because now we can teach our little guys how to ski too!  

Wheeee!

  Happy Sunday to everyone out there!  Today we loaded up the sleds and headed to the golf course to go sledding with the boys.  It was so much fun this year!  Brody and Case couldn't get enough of going down the hill...by themselves!  Ledger loved going fast with both Jeremy and I.  He quietly said, "awwwwwwoooo" the whole way down!  It was cute!  The weather was perfect today, not too cold.  We're thinking about taking Brody and Case snow skiing either tomorrow or Tuesday.  We'll keep you posted! 

Here they are...the Three boys and a husband.  Off they go!

Daddy and Ledger bundled up nice and warm.

Snowed In!

Brody put one of his new Lego sets together today! He did it all by himself and can you tell how proud he is!  Way to go Bro!

Case had fun today playing Rock Band on the Wii with Chase and Taylor.

Ledger couldn't get enough of Franks Chicken Parmesan!  He had three large helpings of pasta...most of which ended up on his shirt and pants!

Sugar had fun playing Mr. Potato Head with the kids!

What do you do when it's negative 4 degrees outside and there's 18-24 inches of snow on the ground?  You have fun in the cabin!  It is so freezing cold here that we didn't even leave the cabin today.  Instead, we played, played, played!  There were 8 kids here today and the oldest was 6 years old.  There were bombs, missiles and popcorn flying through the air all day!  It was crazy and fun.  The day ended with lots of crying and over tired kids who couldn't decide which bunk bed they wanted to sleep in.  It was fun!