Our Growing Brood: Winter Family Trip

Last year we started a tradition to take our kids snow skiing in Paoli, IN with some dear friends of ours. We had a fabulous time and knew that we must do it again. So, again, this year in February we loaded everyone up and headed north. Our first stop was the Creation Museum near Cincinatti, OH. We all had a great time! Here's the fam outside of the museum.

Here's the view as you walk in the door. We're in for a treat!

The boys with friends Kaylee and Jackson.

Next stop was Paoli Peaks, to go skiing. Soon after arriving, I realized I had forgotten the camera in our hotel room, so there really aren't that many pictures of us on the slopes. My friend Christy, graciously agreed to take some for me, so her pictures are the only ones we have. Joshua started out just hanging out with one of us as the other one was with the older boys. Eventually Jason just held him as he skiied down the bunny slopes, and he loved that. Both Elijah and Isaac took lessons which helped them tremendously. Isaac was pretty rocky to start with, but by the end of the night he had the hang of it. Both boys would go down the small slope at the top of the hill, get on the lift by themselves, and do it over, and over, and over...
They totally loved it and did it for about 7 hours. Needless to say, they were exhausted when it was time to go to bed that night. Here are some pictures of our time on the peaks.

The hotel where we stayed has an indoor water park. So, the next morning everyone got on their swim gear and headed downstairs, to this! It was fabulous. HUGE water slides, that Elijah stayed on most of the day (Isaac wasn't tall enough for the big ones, but stayed on the smaller ones). Here, the boys getting a surprise dump on the head from the gigantic bucket that constantly fills up, then dumps, over and over...