Family Tahoe Trip!

So after Riley's party and our family Christmas we hit the road for a 4 day trip to Lake Tahoe. It was a great trip up and we saw the most incredible double rainbow during the drive!

We made it in time to grab a yummy dinner at Jax on the Tracks...another Diner's Drive Ins and Dives pick and it did not disappoint!

CJ and I...check out all that snow out the window!
This was my pot pie...yummy!

After dinner we headed to our condo to settle in!

We had a great little place with plenty of room for the whole gang! Riley slept in her tent in a room with Gaby and did pretty well.

The next morning we were ready to get all of our gear and hit the slopes!

Funny faces all around!

Riley loves the snow...and she loves to eat it too!

We could barely get her to stop eating in order to get in the car and go!

We headed to Homewood the first day and it was a blast! Riley had fun playing and climbing in the snow...it was the best powder and she just sunk right in!

Riley and her Bubba...one of her most favorite people in the whole wide world!

Riley got on her skis too with her Daddy and she did great!

We headed into Tahoe City for a great dinner and then it was home to get some sleep!

Someone didn't even make it home and Riley was so out that we got all of her ski gear layers off without her even waking up. I honestly kept making sure she was breathing because she was out cold! Skiing does wear you out!

Our second ski day we headed to Squaw Valley...where the 1960 olympics were held. We had not skiied at Squaw yet and wanted to check it out! It is a great mountain with a great village and we loved it!

We put Riley in ski school all day and hit the slopes!

Jason and I are off!

The LoRusso fam after a stop at Starbucks!

Riley had a great day at ski school and the rest of us had a great day on the slopes as well! We found some great runs and got the swing of the mountain!

We headed home for a homecooked meal and we ended up with a with a pooped out snow bunny!

It was only 5:00 when Riley fell asleep and we didn't think she would make it through the night but we could not wake her up either. Desiree and I made a grocery run and Jason's job was to get her to wake up...no such luck. She was out! So when I got home Jason got to work cooking his famous minestrone... and I got to work putting Riley in the bath to wake her up. Well..she woke up but it was not pretty...let's just say it was a quick and loud bath. She did finally calm down and wake up to be a happy girl!

She got a little pep in her step and put on a dance show with Bubba!
Then she chilled on the couch and watched Shrek with Gaby and we got her down to sleep pretty easily!

We headed back to Squaw Valley for our last day of skiing and took Riley up the mountain with us. We started off the morning at the very top of the mountain for some professional family pictures and that was a lot of fun.

We then headed to a great area of green slopes to work with Riley but it was a cold and windy day and she was just miserably cold. So we went to a restaurant to get her a snack and get her warmed up!

What a great view!

Jason skiied all the way to the bottom while I took care of Riley and he got her some more layers so she would be warm.

She loved her new pink gear and was ready to hit the slopes again!

She skiied the entire mountain down with Jason and did a great job!

The rest of the afternoon we took turns playing with her and skiing...this was a girls trip to ski!

We called it a day and went to check out all the pictures that we had taken that morning and they turned out great!

Rock Band Family

All around the snowboard!

We love this family and all the time we had to spend together...lots of great memories!

We grabbed some pizza for dinner that night and then hit the hay...we had to leave early the next morning to get the LoRusso's off on their flight home!

What a great trip!