More Powder Shots!

Yesterday Riley had a GREAT day at ski school - actually both kids did fantastic according to their teachers.  Riley's teacher isn't my choice of an enthusiastic type personality to be working with kids.  He's older and not full of enthusiasm like you'd expect.  The first day wasn't a good one for Riley, but each week has gotten better.  When I picked Riley up on Saturday, his teacher said that Riley's first day he appeared to be the weakest of the group and now he's the best in the class!  Way to go Riley!  We couldn't be more proud of him, especially with the instructor he's with.  We were anticipating having to request a different instructor because of their differences in personality, but Riley was so thrilled with his performance on Saturday that I'm glad we decided to have him stick it out and learn to deal with people who don't naturally match up with his personality (that's what life is full of so why not practice it now, right?)

Here is Riley with his ski mates and his teacher

A powder day!

I may have to buy this one...

Kendall's teacher is INCREDIBLE!  She's young and full of energy and excitement.  She's perfect for our little snow bunny.  Kendall and her teacher couldn't wait to tell us that she skied down Chickadee THREE times in her afternoon session!  She was grinning from ear to ear.  Courtney said that she'd like to see if Kendall can ski without her edgie wedgie next week.  Maybe I'll take her up to Snowbird some day this week before we pick up Riley from school.  It's a nice perk that the kids' school is near the mouth of the canyon!  It's about 8 miles from Grace to Snowbird.  

The kids have only one more day of ski school left before they become our responsibility to teach and practice.  We had anticipated getting lots of skiing in while they were in school, but with our lack of early snow, we couldn't justify the expense of the lift tickets when the entire mountain isn't open and to ski on crappy snow.  My dad calls us ski snobs because we will wait for better days ahead.  I guess if the shoe fits...