Happy Valentine's Day

We had an awesome Valentine's Day, kind of celebrated with the kids a few days early making Valentine cookies, opening packages from Grammy and Grandpa and parties at the kids' school. Brian and I took the day off to ski at Mt Hood Meadows. We dropped the kids off at daycare and were on the mountain around 10am. It snowed and was pretty windy, but we'll take any weather just to be up there. We love to ski and don't do it enough. We look forward to the kids being older so we can take them. It would also help if tickets were a little cheaper, although we did find a good deal on our tickets for Valentine's Day (2 all day tickets for $79). Plus when we picked them up at the ticket counter the guy handed us $20 in food vouchers... score!! So, we skied for about 4 hours and had a blast. On the way home we heard on the radio that hwy 26 was closed in both directions at Sandy due to a 3 car pile up. We had Grammy on the phone trying to direct us to an alternate route since we had to take 26 to get the kids! Luckily we were close to the ODOT station near the turnoff to Timberline. They had just opened two lanes and by the time we got there it was wide open. It would have been a bad way to end a very good day on the mountain if we weren't able to pick up the kids.


This was my Valentine's Day gift! He was so cute carrying it through the door. The bouquet was as big as him!