Skiing Season!

Yesterday our ski season started! We will ski every week this month.

McKay with his fun and talented instructor, Anna.

When the triplets were four, I saw poster advertising snow skiing for disabled kids, so I signed the boys up!  They skied at Sundance and Snowbird six to eight times a year, and their kind instructors would give Abby a lesson each time, as well.  Todd and I started feeling left out, so we learned how to do it, too.  

Abby and Todd waiting for the lift.

Now our whole family skies together four or five times a year at Park City with the National Ability Center program.  We love skiing and we love doing it together!

People always ask me how it works for the boys to ski.  They sit in a chair with skis on the bottom and the instructors push them or hold onto ropes attached to the back of the ski to steer them.

  

The ski, with padding added.

Alex

McKay

 Our family has come to look upon this time together with tremendous joy, and we are grateful for the kind people who make it happen.  Todd and Abby and I have really improved in out skiing skills over the years, but we still aren't as fast as Alex and McKay!  We usually can ski all over the mountain, but we are most comfortable on green runs and a few blues.  Park City is a great place for us because there are so many green runs.  

The weather was beautiful yesterday and we had a great time! I love this family of mine!!!!