Lessons, Lessons, Lessons....

So as you can imagine, living in Wisconsin severely limits what we can and can't do outside during the winter months. Basically when you have to constantly worry about the possibility of getting frostbite...it doesn't exactly encourage you to get outside.  It just so happens that we all start to go stir crazy so we are ALWAYS trying to figure out ways to get everyone out of the house and doing something active.  

So...we try to get the girls into some type of lesson....

Here ya go...Addi, Olivya and Charlye all took the next step in swim lessons - they just wrapped up last weekend, they all passed with flying colors!  On to the next step....

Since Addi was born Missy has talked about getting the girls up on ski's as soon as they were ready and old enough to really give it a try without getting too frustrated....we had taken them both a few times when we lived in Brainerd and the ski hill there offered some free ski day's - those always ended with mixed results and usually in some tears and frustration...

After a few months of the girls mentioning that they were ready to give it another try...

Well....the time was now...for Christmas both Addi and Olivya got ski lessons for their 'big gifts' from Mom and Dad...conveniently there is a ski hill 2 minutes from Missy's church - it's a smaller, less busy hill - basically perfect for the first real attempt at skiing.

Now if you know anything about us - I grew up in Texas and had only ever seen skiing on t.v., so this was a total Missy and girl's thing...

Here are some videos of Olivya and Adelyn skiing on their own down - what I think is called the bunny hill.