Colorado survived the Erims...

Last week the whole entire Erim clan descended on Winter Park, CO. We went with my parents as well as our friends Susanna and Keith, their daughter Kinley and Susanna's parents Jim and Lynda (aka Lolly and Pops). We all had an amazing time. Raif, Susanna, Keith and I got to snowboard for 4 days and had some major alone adult time. The kids had a blast with 4 grandparents showering constant attention on them and I think the grandparents had a blast spoiling their grandkids. On our off days we had lots of grand adventures - we went tubing, sledding, and ice skating and even took a sleigh ride through the woods. We made snow angels and threw snowballs and the kids ate lots of snow. We attempted a snowman but Greyson enjoyed jumping in the pile of snow too much to let us finish. We thought about putting Greyson in ski school but he really didn't have a lot of interest so Raif instead took both Quinn and Greyson down a hill on his snowboard - which they loved.

Not to say that we didn't have our share of injuries. My knees still hurt from some skiier who took me out from behind while I was shredding the powder and I have a large bruise on my shin from an unfortunate ski lift incident. Raif managed (only Raif) to tweek his knee on one of our first runs (on a green no less) after his binding ripped right off his board. Then in attempting to do a 180 off a jump he managed to crack a rib. Even our children were not spared. My daughter is apparently a lightening rod for sledders as she got 'smacked down' (her words) 4 times by sledders sliding down the hill and got some pretty nasty snow burn and cuts on her face. But each time she wiped away the tears and wanted to go again. She was braver than I would have been.

We also found someone on the trip who takes more pictures than Raif, if you can believe that!! Susanna's mother and Raif took 1,500 pics between the two of them. Yowzer. I don't think there was a moment of the trip that wasn't photo documented. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip - and if you have a lot of time to kill you can view the rest on Raif's smugmug account.
http://sailrace.smugmug.com/gallery/7484689_k7KqP#482977335_Mre2y