The boys spent their days snowboarding, their late afternoons creating little jumps and rails to practice on behind the house...and their evenings hanging out with all of the "big kids" and apparently throwing popcorn literally everywhere in the basement (it only took one visit to the basement for me to never venture there again...just take a moment to imagine the delicate aroma's and chaos of 7 boys sleeping down there!!)Everyone seemed to fall hard at some point in the trip (including the dad's) and there were multiple ice packs going round knees and heads and shoulders. Daniel somehow managed to fall face first into his knee and had a couple of teeth come loose....although he spent the week with a very swollen mouth and jaw, he survived and so did his teeth (he didn't allow injury photos)!
The girls spent their afternoons and evenings playing and playing....how fun it is to have so many kids to play with....
They spent their days skiing, spending a couple of days in ski school, which they bitterly moaned about as being totally unnecessary as they are "already know how to do this"
On the third day we decided to let them ski with us and it was a great day.....
well great, until Abbie fell about an hour before we were done....we were in between lifts and hills and so (thinking she had probably just bruised her shoulder) we, as model parents, had her get on the ski lift to the top of one of the runs and then ski across back to the car (it actually was the only way back without calling ski patrol to come and rescue her!!) She held her arm to her side and made it all the way down with me close behind her and then I took her back to the house......As soon as Aidan got back and saw it he knew right away she'd broken her collar bone (Jack recently broke his twice so I guess Aidan is quite the collar bone expert)....we took her down to the Urgent Care and sure enough...big old nasty break....
Thank goodness for pain meds and sisters and cousins and friends....oh and most importantly, bean bags to sleep in:)
