I have a friend who had a little boy with down syndrome a few months before Bryson was born.  They didn’t know before hand, it was a surprise.  I remember when they blessed their baby at church the spirit was SO strong and you just knew this baby was meant to be in their family.

I just read an amazing birth story of Nella.    It was beautiful to read and I thought of my friend and the amazing, scary, but wonderful surprise they had when their sweet baby was born.

Have a kleenex handy if you go to read the story.   But it is a beautiful, uplifting story.

We took a day off of skiing and went bowling and ice skating.  I don’t think I have pictures of ice skating, but here are the bowling ones!

Great shoes!

We had a great trip!  Thanks Mom and Dad!

Here are the other good ski pictures. 

We are on our last day today.  I didn’t go out as evident by the many blog posts I posted today. 

Here are some highlights. 

Beautiful Scenery

Carson – our snowboarder

Devon – our skiier.  Gotta love the frozen hair!

Bryson the newest skiier.  He rode the chairlift a few times.  He is so big.

Like Father, Like Son!

Riding the lift with Carson, Devon, PopPop, Rob and I.

Maybe our Christmas Card Picture for 2010.

We went our our annual trip to Utah.  We usually go in Feb, but this year my Dad wanted to see Sundance.   So we headed up Jan 22nd to spend the weekend with B & K and their boys before hitting the slopes. 

As usual much fun was had by all.  The greatest part is Trevor and Devon are old enough to babysit, so we left them in charge of all the kids and Ben and Kirsten and us went out to dinner.  What a treat!

The boys had fun wrestling, playing Wii, playing in the snow, archery, playing Risk, church, more Risk.

We spent a fun afternoon geocaching with the boys.   We got a travel bug we meant to leave in Park City, but with all the snow it is hard to find any caches.  So we will bring it to Orlando in Feb.

I was a little nervous I would miss Christmas because I had a doula client due.  So we opened our traditional gift Christmas Eve (pj’s) and then a family gift (quirkle) and the boys opened some remote control cars.

He looks Thrilled!

Carson is doing a History Day report on Jet Engines, so we went to the Air and Space Museum on the 26th of December, to do some research.  It was extra cool because there was an exhibit on Leonardo Di Vinci inventions. 

Bryson wasn’t very impressed and kept asking when we were going home.  But the rest of us had fun!

The First Bike

The First Bike

The Scouts went to The Shop, to see REALLY cool cars. 

Devon is thrilled to be a 12 year old scout!

Rob earned his Wood Badge on December 10th. 

For those who do not know what that is.  It is a Scout Badge grown ups can earn.  It takes a lot of work and time so it is pretty impressive.

Great Job Rob!