Saturday while at the cabin, we spent the day celebrating Brody's 9th Birthday. The day started off with a scavenger hunt in the snow. Since we are no longer able to take kids on quads, we had to do the hunt in our cars. The rules of the game were: Everyone had to be in the picture next to the item that was on the list and you had to be back by the given time. Mara and I took the big boys (Brody, Case, Hunter, Mason and Hayden), while Jeremy and Ted took the little boys (Ledger and Ethan.) We had a blast finding the things on our list.
Can you guess which team won? I'll give you a hint...it's the team holding up the #1 fingers!
Who are these cute loosers?
Case is actually not supposed to be in the picture but thinks he's super funny these days.
Here we are getting our picture taken next to "someone shoveling snow."
Here are the little boys next to "someone on a quad or ranger."
Here are the winners again next to "a snowman."
This was about as close as we could get to "a U of A license plate."
Both teams made it back just in time. Here we are reviewing the pictures taken by each team so we could determine who won. Did I mention it was us?!
The rest of the day was spent playing hide and seek, WII, pool, and 3DS.
After dinner that night, we went on a second scavenger hunt in the cabin. The kids had to listen to the poems and figure out what rooms they needed to go to. In each room there was a little party favor treasure. Of course all the lights in the cabin were out and the kids had flashlights on their heads.
Looking through the party bags and ready for cake.
Sugar brought an ice cream cake from Cold Stone all the way up to the cabin.
Brody was so happy to have a cake with his name on it. Love the way Miss B. is looking at the cake in this picture. She is a sugar maniac!
After cake and ice cream, we headed outside for fireworks and sparklers.
What 9 year old boy doesn't like fire?
After cake and ice cream it was on to balloons because every party needs balloons right?
Oh did I mention that this party had 150 balloons? AWESOME!
Nothing like jumping off the couch onto a mound of balloons.
One of the things the kids got in their bags were glow sticks. We turned off all the lights and had a dance par-tay with the glow sticks. So funny to watch 9 year old boys dance.
WOW! What a fun night in the mountains! We threw the kids in bed at about 10:00 and Jeremy and I stayed up trying to figure out how we can slow down time...and help Brody to understand how important having good friend is. Enough said!
Sunday was our last day at the cabin. With no sleep all weekend and some other situations, Jeremy and I were, for once in our life, ready to get back home. We really learned a lot this weekend, about ourselves, our kids and their friends. Let's just say we are freaking out at what is to come! WHEW! We took the kids for one last sledding trip over to White Mountain. This kids were crazy...See below picts!
Case is just a total crazy man on the mountain. The higher the jump, the better.
Hayden had some big jumps too.
Mason is just so small that even the smallest hill throws him all over!
Brody was a maniac today.
Miss B. couldn't get enough of sledding. She only wanted to go with Daddy though.
Check out Case. CRAZY!!
Hunter...that had to have hurt coming down!
Brody was all good until this jump...
And then he hurt his leg and we were done. Since I am not strong enough to carry my now 9 year old, I literally dragged him across the snow. Kinda funny!
When we came home, we went on a colored ice cube hunt in the snow. (although this picture has no snow in it, there was snow on the golf course) This year, we put money in the frozen ice cubes. You should have sent the kids hunting for them in the snow. HILARIOUS!
