Spring Break Day 3: Skiing

We woke up yesterday to Ofelia making breakfast. It was a nice treat!

Carter has been talking about skiing for several weeks. He was so excited when he woke up because he was finally getting to go skiing.

My two babies waiting on skis.

We were a little nervous about if he really would ski or not. The lady at the counter told us that the hardest part for little kids is wearing the boots. She said normally if they will wear the boots, then they will do okay skiing. Well, we were so fortunate because Carter LOVED his boots. They were neon green and purple like Buzz Lightyear, and he was Buzz Lightyear when he woke up today :)

So excited!!

Getting his skis on.

Carter and his instructor waiting for the T-bar ski lift thing.

Carter checking out his awesome skis.

My future X-gamer.

I think the lift was his favorite part. He laughed all the way up the hill.

His second time down the hill. He LOVED it!!!
At first, the instructor kind of held him up as they went down the hill. After a few times, they stayed toward the bottom of the hill, and he had Carter ski to him.

"Hi Mom!"

"I'm Buzz Lightyear." That's what we could hear him tell the instructor when he accidentally called him "Carter."

My pretty girl watching the lesson. Since I can't ski this year, I didn't get to take any pics of her on the slopes :(

The beautiful view where we were skiing.

The instructor said Carter did great, but he just wanted to go fast. I think
he eventually gave up on teaching Carter to slow down and just taught him how to fall properly.



Monte and Lexie decided to go up the bunny slope and cut across to the lodge. They said it was easier; I think it was just an excuse to ski a little bit more.

My happy little skier.

**** I haven't mentioned much about his soccer games on here because, well frankly, it's a little embarrassing. Carter does great during the practice part, but when the game starts he cries and the coach has to carry him around the court.

After looking back at how much Carter liked boogie boarding at the beach and the waves hitting him in the face, and then seeing how much he enjoyed tubing and skiing this week: I have decided he is more of an X-games kind of kid and less of a traditional sports kind of kid. So instead of a little David Beckham, I have a little Louie Vito. (Because I can also see Carter on Dancing With the Stars.)-- Hey, whatever makes him happy.

Spring Break Days 1 and 2

Warning: the next few posts will contain A LOT of photos. (I'm not a writer, so the pics will be more exciting than my words anyway.)

Monte's aunt and uncle have a gorgeous 2nd house in Vail, and they were very kind and let us use it during Spring Break. My brother and his family also joined us, so this is going to be a great week!

My iPhone addicts relaxing on the couch at the airport.

Funny story: I have very imaginative children. Carter is in a stage now where he is a different character every day when he wakes up, and that is what we have to call him. He will correct us if we call him "Carter". Well, when he handed his ticket to the TSA agent at the airport, the guy said, "Are you Carter Moore?"

Carter replied, "No. I'm Jimmy Neutron!"

Two thumbs up from Lexie. Carter did great on the flight. (I tried to get a pic with him looking at me, but he was obsessed with looking out the window.) Don't worry, he did actually sit with his seat belt on during the flight. He was actually quite adamant that he HAD to have his seat belt on.

Our beautiful morning view. (This picture doesn't do it justice.)

Uncle Dan and Carter playing with cars.

Katherine, Kalin, Wyatt, Lexie, and Carter at Beaver Creek.

Yay!! Carter is tall enough to go tubing.

This statue reminded Lexie of Canada. She has an obsession with "Canadia"(as she calls it). Don't worry, she does know it is pronounced "Canada". She just thinks "Canadia" sounds better. :)

Lexie and Carter had a great snowball fight.

Lexie and I on the gondola.

Carter and Monte getting ready to go tubing. This is when we found out that Carter had to go down the tubing hill by himself. We thought he would ride with Monte down the hill, but we were wrong. We were not sure how Carter would feel about tubing alone.

Lexie waiting patiently to tube.

The guy working there would spin you so you would be spinning about half way down the hill. It looked like a lot of fun. The kids said it was great!

Carter in his tube. I was hoping he wouldn't be scared and cry the whole way down. (We told the guy not to spin him.)



Well, Carter laughed and squealed the whole way down the hill. He loved it!!

Uncle Dan videoed his tubing his experience. I can't wait to watch those videos- I'm sure the commentary is hilarious!!

Katherine getting ready to go down.

Monte is ready.

The guy spun Kalin so fast her hat flew off.

"Spin me please!"- We did allow a little spin. He's Mr. Adventure. Actually, he was Buzz Lightyear this day because he yelled, "to infinity and beyond" as he went down the hill.

It was a good day. Carter fell asleep as soon as we got on the bus to our car.

Lexie had fun, too.

Tomorrow: skiing!!

Surprise!

Carter's First Soccer Game

Today was Carter's first soccer game. It was so much fun to watch him! He had a blast!! (Except he did have a minor-ha!- meltdown in the middle. He was quite upset that he couldn't kick the ball. He finally figured out that if he wanted to kick the ball, he had to actually run after it. Who would have thought?! He also wanted to use his ball and not the team ball.)

They start with a 30 minute practice. Every kid has a ball for this part, so I think he got a little confused when they took away all but one ball. They practice doing soccer moves, but they have adorable little names for everything. The ball is called "Bob" or "Bobcat". In the picture below Carter is "stopping Bob". They also do this cute penguin waddle to dribble the ball. He LOVED it! (He does the practice part at his school one day a week also.)

During the practice part, Carter would turn around and wave at us and yell "Hi!!" It was so cute.

He's wearing his soccer wrist band that Lexie got him.

This morning on the way to the game I asked Carter if he was going to run fast. He replied in a very serious tone, "NO, I am going to run slow so I don't get hurt. I will kick the ball fast, but I will run slow."

Well that might have been his plan, but he did actually run fast.

I can't wait until next Saturday!

Masquerade

A couple of weekends ago Lexie was in the Masquerade Dance Competition. She did 4 routines with her competitive team (lyrical, hip hop, contemporary, and jazz) and 1 solo (hip hop). I love to watch her dance. She is definitely one of those artsy creative types. When she is singing, dancing, or acting, she is in her element. She does everything I always wanted to do but was too shy to try. I am so proud of her!!

Jazz outfit- I loved this routine. It was to a song from the movie "The Lost Boys." I love it when they dance to rock songs instead of the traditional jazzy type music.

The white fluff means she was one of the good guys-ha!

I was a total loser mom. They posted a sign that said you can't take any pictures or videos or else the dancer(s) will be disqualified. Well, silly me didn't take any pics of her outside of the auditorium in her other outfits until the last dance. I did cheat though and pulled the pics up online and did a screen shot with my phone. So ignore the border with the low battery symbol :)

The contemporary outfit.

Hip Hop Solo-- This is Lexie's genre! She loves hip hop and it's obvious when she dances. It is also my favorite genre to watch. Some people don't realize how hard it really is because it looks like street dancing, but it really is much harder and more technical than it looks.

Jazz

Hip Hop group

Wake Up Call

When we were getting ready for church yesterday morning, we heard this over the monitor:

"MOM!! Listen!"

a few seconds later...

"MOM!!! I'm talking!!"

a few more seconds...

"HEY MOM!! IT'S ME, CARTER!!!"

Needless to say Monte, Lexie, and I were rolling on the floor laughing. (not literally)
That boy keeps us lauging; he comes up with some crazy stuff.