Timberline

Last weekend we took the boys to Canaan Valley, West Virginia, so Caleb could go skiing for the first time. Creed's aunt and uncle have a house at Timberline and were gracious enough to let us stay there.

Three days prior to our trip Caleb started to show signs of getting sick, and sure enough the day before we were supposed to leave he started running a fever. We still made the trip Friday night (7 hrs) but both boys slept great in the car once it got dark. Caleb felt better Saturday, but because it hadn't been 24 hrs since he had a fever, he stayed around the house and played with Luke and I. (Creed's cousin, Peter, met us there so Creed still had a skiing buddy!)

Sunday morning Caleb was feeling great so we all got bundled up (It was actually unseasonably warm there!) and headed over to the mountain.

Luke was a trooper and hung out in my lap for a few hours while the boys skied. He had lunch in the lodge and flirted with all the ladies there! It was hilarious...since he was the only baby there he got sooo much attention! (He loved every second of it too!) Little did we know that by Sunday evening, Luke would have a fever too. :(
Caleb was SO excited to go skiing with his Daddy! He had been talking about it for weeks and said that morning when he woke it, "I think I am going to love skiing!"
Ready to go!

Creed spent some time trying to help Caleb to get a feel for the skis- I think they made 2 runs down the bunny slope. At that point Caleb said that he wanted someone else to be his teacher! ;) (We had talked to him about a lesson, but he had decided he didn't want one.)

After lunch Caleb spent an hour with his "ski teacher." (That's them in the middle.) He put some sort of thing on the front of Caleb skis to force them in a snow plow. Creed told the guy that Caleb was having a hard time moving his skis, to which the instructor replied, "Yeah, he's three." ;)He's not ready for the moguls yet, but we did get out of this trip the 3 things we hoped for...Caleb had fun, he wasn't scared, and he wants to "do it again!"