The Family A Proclamation to the World states that "Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities." Now for most people number 9 on this list is the easiest to accomplish. I am not "most people." What "most people" consider "wholesome recreational activities" I find to be stressful and/or time-wasting. I don't particularly like playing board games. (What am I accomplishing?) If you read my Thanksgiving post, you know I don't enjoy skeet shooting, and well, I'm just not that athletically coordinated for things like skiing (water or snow), volleyball, or softball (things that "most people" would categorize as "wholesome recreational activities.") Hey, I even get a bit anxious about bowling or playing frisbee. BUT.....I DO want a successful family, AND my family is very forgiving of my lack of athletic skill. SO...When Luke wanted to go snowboarding/skiing for his birthday, I took a deep breath and went. I've only skied three times before in my life, but I only fell getting off the lift twice (and Kent kindly picked me up,) and I only fell going down the hill once. (I probably did over 20 runs, but lest you get too impressed, I stayed on the bunny hill the entire day.) It turned out to be a very fun day, and even though I "accomplished" nothing (the laundry is still there, the house is still uncleaned, and my on-line graduate course still needs attention) I made a memory. And all those other things will still be there tomorrow, and next week, and the week after and so on, BUT my baby won't ever turn 11 again, and I'm quite sure that in a few years, he will not want to go on a FAMILY ski trip as a birthday celebration. So here's to "wholesome recreational activities!"
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| In line for rentals |
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| Luke ready to snowboard-he is pretty darn good at it. Luckily he did not inherit my unathletic genes |
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| Trent ready to snowboard-also pretty good, but he ended up trading in his snowboard for skis. He preferred skiing . |
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| Lynae-first try at snowboarding, but by the day's end, she was pro. |
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| Dallin (Home from Rexburg for his offtrack so he came with us.) and Kay |
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| Luke and Dallin on the lift |
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| Luke and Kent-despite their expressions in this photo, they were both having a marvelous time |
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| Despite my insistence that I HAD to stay on the "first time" bunny hill due to my strong aversion to poor grammar, my children persuaded me to try the more difficult, yet grammatically incorrect, "your ready" run for the last two runs of the day. I may not be ATHLETIC, but by golly I KNOW MY GRAMMAR! |
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| All done! As you can see, this "wholesome recreational activity" made us all happy. (Luke was happy too-he just refuses to smile for pictures unless we "trick" him into it.) P.S. We sure missed our other two girlies, Analise and Kaylee. They are in Provo-winter semester at BYU. |
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