Heading to the Mountains...

It wasn't but a few days after Jason came home that we headed up to Lake Tahoe for our first trip this year! We were excited to put Riley on skis for the first time and she was stoked...she kept talking about "skiing in tahoe" with her "little skis" and "sticks"!

Jason usually does all the planning for our little trips and is a pro on Priceline but this time he wasn't as lucky as usual...due to Priceline throwing him some loops he managed to score a decent hotel at a great price...but we had to stay in Carson City, NV...on the OTHER side of Lake Tahoe! At first I was not too thrilled but we decided as long as we were together as a family that was all that mattered and it would be an adventure...and it was GREAT!

We left Friday afternoon, got all of our ski gear, and headed on our way. We like to eat at restaurants that Guy features on his show Diner, Drive-Ins, and Dives and we had one in Truckee called Burger Me that we wanted to try!

We made it just in time and Riley had already eaten dinner so she got a treat!

Jason and I have been on a pretty decent low carb kick but this was a night to splurge...and these burgers and sweet potato fries were totally worth it!

Luckily Lake Tahoe had not seen recent snow and there were no bad road conditions so the additional driving ended up not being bad at all...we got in late and called it a night and we were up bright and early the next morning to hit the slopes!

Who wouldn't love to drive to this every morning? The beauty of this place never gets old!

Riley was all decked out and ready for her first day of ski school!

My cutie pies!

Family Pic

Riley was totally excited about ski school...and they were excited about labeling every item she had on!

Once we dropped her off we hit the slopes for a bit before she headed out to ski...we were so excited to watch her!

The first day went pretty well...she sort of dropped out of school after a bit and we picked her up a little early...I think it was a lot for her to take in and we learned that she didn't do so well with us watching and interacting with her while she was at school! She is so used to simply playing in the snow and we all know that ski gear isn't the most comfortable so it was all a bit too much for her!

Here's some video from her first day!



All in all she still did well and she was zonked when we left!

Sunday morning we headed out early again for another day of ski school for Riley!

Day two proved to be much better...she got up on her skis and thanks to a sweet girl Amanda who worked with her very diligently Riley was up and skiing and had far fewer meltdowns than day one!

Here's some video of day 2...




After ski school we did some playing in the snow and had a snowball fight!

Then her Daddy took her on the magic carpet and the bunny slopes for a little bit of skiing again!

I think she was most excited about riding on the lift...sometimes she wanted to ride the lift but not ski down...we had to explain that in order to ride the lift she had to ski!!

I just love this pic of her and Jason riding on the lift together...so sweet!

We had a great weekend...Riley had her first official taste of skiing...and we had some awesome family time!