Last week, the kids had President’s week (AKA Ski Week) off. We headed to Tahoe for 4 days with other cousins who had the week off too. At first I was worried about the road conditions with all the storms we’ve been having, but the drive both ways was smooth. While we were there though, that’s another story. It snowed the entire time we were there! It snowed probably 5-7 feet in the few days we were there. It was the most snow I’d seen in my entire life. Our plan was to hang out and do fun stuff on Monday and go skiing on Tuesday. It ended up snowing so much on Monday and there was a traffic jam due to an avalanche which closed Hwy 50, we stayed home and the kids played outside and went sledding and made snowmen. On Tuesday morning, the snow had a brief pause. We drove over to Sierra only to get turned away. The resort was closed due to high winds and falling trees! We had planned to go home Wednesday morning, instead we went back to the ski report (open!) and skied most of the day and then drove home. The weather was perfect on Wednesday! Sunny most of the day and only snowed a little bit toward the afternoon.

The kids buried Nat in the snow

We celebrated Kaiya’s birthday while we were there

On Tuesday, we made an attempt to go to Heavenly for ice skating. It was snowing so heavy, everything was closed!

The ski & snowboarding crew

The house we rented

The morning we were set to leave, our driveway had so much snow! All the dads had to shovel the driveway so we could get the cars out of the garage

Here’s a video of the kids (Tyler, Theo, and Kaiya) skiing, taken by Uncle Mike

Uncle Way and Uncle Mike snowboarding down our street since there was so much snow

Snowing!