Adam and Heather Hayes

We got a surprise visit from Adam's sister Andrea over the President's Day weekend. My girls were very excited! At Sunday dinner at Grandma Hayes' house we had all of Adam's brothers and sisters and us married-ins and a girlfriend. That's the first time since Kami's mission farewell, so almost 2 years. It was a packed house, it was great. Then on Monday we went sledding with anyone who could come at the Ririe pit.

Tricity really surprised us. She's usually the one who gets tired first. Not on President's Day! She was energizer bunny! Up and down the slopes, usually at the steepest points.

Vi did okay after she fell asleep for a while. Erith was go go go as usual. Adam tried to practice snowboarding on a child sled and it didn't work too good.

But alas he did quite well on his first snowboarding trip ever. He was very sore before he started, (from club volleyball starting) so you can imagine how sore he was after. In fact he's passed out on the bed right now and I decided to write this blog because it's way to early for me to go to bed! I even went down three times. (Shhhh! Don't tell my doctor!)

Well, thanks to my friend Daniel, I went snowboarding for the first time in my life.

I had an absolute blast. We went up to Targhee and Daniel showed me the basics of standing up, falling down (j/k), and turning. We went down the "bunny hill" once and then we went to mid mountain. He endured a rather long trip down the mountain as I tried to get the hang of basic turns.

After we made it down the first time, he had to run off and teach a class, so I got to practice a bit on my own. I went down a couple more times and fell about a thousand times. I was getting ok at turning from heel side to toe side, but couldn't quite get toe to heel. Dan finished his class and came and helped me out for another run. Then we went and ate lunch.

After lunch I started doing much better. After I was able to switch from heel to toe and back again, my legs started to like me again. (I kept favoring my left leg, so it kept getting really tight and sore.) Dan spent the whole time trying to get me to not favor it so much.

I actually made a complete run down to about 20 feet from the ski lift without falling. Then I was going too slow and just tipped over. Oh well. Next time I'll have a perfect run.

Dan didn't throw me on anything too difficult which was nice. Plus, although he had plenty of opportunities to laugh at me, he didn't.

All in all, it was a great time and I'm eager to try again.