Memoirs of the Mackeys: Snow Days

We are back from another great get-away! We were able to sneak away to New Mexico to see our good friends, the Youngs. It's been almost six months since we last saw them and we were finally able to meet Hudson! Who is the cutest, happiest, chubbiest little bear ever. As you can see here:

They drove in from Texas and met us in Santa Fe at the airport before we all drove up to Taos. We rented an amazing house off of VRBO and set up camp with a glorious view of the mountains out of all our windows. The boys spent as much time snowboarding as they could, while we girls shopped and explored the village of Arroyo Seco and a few fun little places in Taos, with Hudson.

When we first arrived, we were surprised by the balmy 70 degree, sun shiney weather, but that quickly changed after about a day and we got 8-9inches of powder dumped on us - the boys were in heaven.

Jess and I got out and skiied for one day while the boys were on baby duty....

It was a MUCH better experience than the other time I tried skiing when I was 13 (which may or may not have involved numerous incidences of sliding backwards and sideways down all hills into the nearest solid object, several awkward displays of the splits, a fight with the orange snow fence that grabbed me and tangled my skis & poles up, and falling off the J-bar lift only to get knocked in the back of the head by the next J-bar that snuck up behind me). This time I took an actual lesson and can now stay in the upright position and turn and stop when on a mountain and strapped into those long, skinny, slippery buggers!! I only had one major incident that involved me "stopping" while Stuart, the instructor, was yelling at me from the base of the hill. It all ended with me skiing right into a building and knocking the wind out of myself, along with a movable panel on the building, much to everyone's horror. The bruise on my ribs is turning a lovely purple today, but I'm fine other than that.

All in all the time flew and nobody was quite ready for vacation to be over Wednesday. After 14hrs of travel (due mostly to delays from flights because of the biggest snowstorm America acts like it has ever seen) we finally rolled into our house around 2:30am and were happy to be in our own warm, comfy bed. I'm now playing catch up with school and Scott's back to saving lives in the ER, but before I leave you, here are a few more pics.