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This past weekend was a long weekend so we took the opportunity to go up to New Hampshire for more skiing! We also celebrated my mom’s birthday, a bit belated, but it was great to do it with the family all together. (Don’t miss the video link down below!)

We skied two days at Cranmore, where my cousin and his girlfriend work, and here’s Miles with the Cranmore mascot! He remembered him from last time we were here and ran right over to give him a hug.

Here he is again, skiing with Grandpa.

Here’s Quinn giving Grandma the special birthday card that he made for her.

Cutie patootie Miles sleeping with his little mousie!

Our third day of skiing was at King Pine, and Miles started learning to turn! Here’s a video of him at KP. He can do the little magic carpet run at KP all by himself – getting on and off the carpet and then skiing down, even with a lot of other people on the hill.

Also at KP, Quinn had a disagreement with Eric on the last run about which trail to take and ended up colliding with another child. His injury was mild, but he ended up in first aid because he was bleeding everywhere! Here he is a few hours later at dinner with his lovely fat lips!

Click here to go to the February album and see more pictures of our ski weekend.

Quinn has been doing karate since December and is having fun with it. Now that Miles is 3, he is old enough to join the little “dragons” class, so we decided to try it out since he’s already been practicing the moves at home.

Here’s Quinn during his class:

Here’s Miles modeling his new uniform:

And here he is during class. I had a hard time getting a photo of him! This one isn’t great but you can tell he’s having a good time!

Quinn has graduation for his yellow belt next week!

After not attending many MOMS Club events in January (since I got the flu and was sick for two weeks and then we had a week of vacation), we tried to make up for it by going to lots of fun activities in the first couple weeks of February.

Making dinosaurs at the library…

…making birdfeeders…

…and decorating Valentines cookies (can you even tell there’s a cookie under all that candy? And what a face – this is what I get when I ask Quinn to smile for the camera!)

Fun stuff!

We spent a week in January up at Mittersill again this year. Three days of skiing at Bretton Woods, one at Cannon, and one at Loon rounded out the week. We also made our obligatory stop at the Woodstock Inn for tasty food and beer. Make sure you go down to the bottom and click on the video links, too!

Now this is how to spend your birthday!

Eric did get Miles to take a nap in the lodge, but not until day 4 of vacation!

Quinn got to take his first gondola ride at Loon Mountain. He skied all three peaks of Loon that day!

A beautiful day to cap off a great week of skiing!

And don’t miss the video of Quinn skiing.
And here’s one of Miles, too.
Both of these were shot at Bretton Woods

And for more skiing photos, click here to go to the January photo album!

Miles turned three in January during our ski vacation. We brought some decorations and silly hats (or “stilly” hats, as Miles calls them) and had a party on the evening before his birthday. The cake (banana, per the birthday boy’s request) survived the trip and fortunately he thought it was tasty, too! He even blew out the candles without any prompting!