Hitting the slopes...

Last weekend was our long planned trip to Tahoe with several friends...8 adults and 2 kiddos to be exact! We all took Friday off and sent the boys up early to ski all day and get the craziness out of their system!

Us girls left around 10 in hopes that Riley and Maddie would sleep on the trip...hahahaha!

They were ready to see snow and had fun dancing most of the way!

Wouldn't you know these two stinkers fell asleep 20 minutes before we arrived!
We decided to take the girls to Soda Springs which is a super family friendly place with an area just for little ones 6 months and up!

Here's me and my snow loving girl!

The kids area at Soda Springs was AWESOME! It's hard to find areas targeted to Riley and Maddie's age and I wish every ski resort had an area like this!

They had this awesome tube carousel that pulled them around and they could go faster and go over bumps by moving to the outside tubes.

Riley had a blast and just laid back in her shades for the ride...here's a cute video of us all cheering her on!


They also had a separate area with a tubing hill and a magic carpet to ride back up to the top...her first trip down she toppled into a man totally standing in the way and that was a bit of a shock for her but she got up and was ready to go again!

They also had this ginormous hill for Riley to climb up and slide down...I don't know how those kids made it to the top...even we couldn't because it was so slippery!

I taught Riley how to roll down the hill and she loved it...she would just keep rolling and rolling!

What a fun place!

After Soda Springs we headed towards our cabin to meet up with the boys!

We had a cute quaint and tiny cabin for our whole gang and unfortunately the heat wasn't working when we arrived...boo!

They gave us another cabin so we took advantage of the extra space and slept with the kids in the other cabin while the kid-less folks built a fire and kept warm in the heat-less cabin!

It was quite a horrible night getting Riley and Maddie to sleep...OMG...however we all got enough sleep to be ready to ski the next day!

Since the boys had filled the previous day with skiing us girls hit the slopes first thing!

Katie, Amanda, Me, and Ashley

Here we are riding up the lift!

After our morning of skiing the boys met us with the kiddos and we played in the snow...check out this huge snowball!

We all grabbed lunch and then Jason and I switched off playing with Riley and skiing for the afternoon! She never napped but did great!

Amanda and I were the LAST ones down the mountain that day!

We went and grabbed some Mexican food and headed to the cabin. I have to admit I was dreading what I thought would be another catastrophe trying to get the girls to sleep but Saturday night was MUCH better...thank goodness!

Sunday we packed up all our stuff and headed to NorthStar at Tahoe to ski for the day!

We hadn't been here before but they have a great childcare program and it looked like a great place so we wanted to check it out!

Riley played with new friends all day in this awesome center and did a lot of playing in the snow as well while Jason and I hit the slopes all day!

First the girls grabbed some much needed Starbucks and then we were ready to go!

We LOVED this place...there were so many runs that we never skiied the same ones twice and it was so nice and wide open...it was just great! They also had a great village at the base with all kinds of shops, restaurants, and an ice skating rink!

Me and the hubs before we caught a lift!

Ashley and I decided to grab a bite at the top of the mountain so we could maximize our time on the slopes...check out our huge turkey leg which we split...good decision!

After lunch we met up with the boys and skied the backside of the mountain where I am proud to report I skied down a black diamond and didn't have any trouble...there were no moguls but it was quite steep...it was so fun though!

We all rode the lift back up and then skied down the whole mountain and called it a day!

This was the first trip where I ended up being sore the next day...I guess that made it a good trip of skiing!

We picked Riley up from playing and headed home...luckily we didn't really hit much traffic on the way home either which was fantastic!

We had a great weekend!