We went on our second annual ski trip to Colorado (this year Lionshead, Vail). Grayson did his second year of ski school and this year went much better than last year. It was Liam's first year and he did great, working hard on the pizza/wedge. Grayson moved up quickly to level 3 and actually cried when I picked him up the last day because he was having so much fun. They both did 3 days of ski school. Mommy did one day of ski school (level 4) and took a private lesson with another girl from the previous day's lesson. I learned so much in two short days and by day three I was ready to hit the slopes with Daddy (although at the time I wanted to stay on the bunny hill). Craig convinced me to go on the green slopes with him, although I had so much anxiety I could hardly breathe. Luckily it all came to me and I was able to spend the day skiing with him. He "accidentally" took me down a blue hill (green split off into green or blue), although later he admitted to "sort of" do that on purpose. I was doing fine until I realized we were on a blue and then I panicked. I started screaming things I never say, which I'm sure scared the people above on the chair lift, but I was terrified and ready to walk down the hill without my skis. I threatened this and then realized how dumb and time consuming that would be so I bit the bullet and went for it. I did lose my ski and spent 10 minutes trying to get it back on because I was on the side of a VERY steep slope where people would not see me which terrified me even more. The slope was complete ice which did not help my situation. Finally I was able to get my ski back on and finish the hill. Craig said I was able to keep up with him and did fine, "You can totally do blue runs", but I was ready to divorce him at this point. Luckily we made it to the end and I had a great sense of accomplishment that I finished the blue and green hills. We were late to pick up the boys from ski school, but for good reason. We had a great time with our good friends (Phil, Kat, Logan and Paxton) and we were so lucky Ethan was able to join us as well. We ate great food, had an amazing time on the slopes (one day we had a crazy snow storm), so much fun with some of our best friends and the boys enjoyed playing video games. One night Ethan and Logan watched the kids so the adults could to dinner at Sweet Basil. We had an amazing time, hope to make this an annual event and can't wait until next year.
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