Big Bear!

On March 1st and 2nd we headed up to Big Bear for a little snow get-away!  We've taken Wes to the snow every year since he was born so we were glad we were able to keep up our tradition!  Unfortunately I had my first major 'second-time-parent moment' and forgot to have Cora touch the snow since this was her first trip to the mountains!  Oh well, next year.

Staying at my parent's time share always makes things so nice since they all have full kitchens, dining rooms and up to three bedrooms.  Oh, and this one has a gas fire place, just flip the switch!    

As soon as we got to our unit, we broke into the snow clothes box and got all bundled up and ready to head out to the snow.  Wes got new bibs and new snow boots this year (but this is actually his jacket from last year, it still fits...barely. And when he saw them in the snowbox, he had to wear his two-sizes-too-small Spiderman boots.  I don't know how, but we got his feet in them!)

My little snow bunnies.

We stayed on a side of the time share property that we have never stayed on before, but our unit was great!  It had this little backyard that was in the shade, so it had lots of snow to play in.

Wes getting Snowball-Making 101 from Daddy.

Next we headed to the front of our unit where there were a few little hills to sled on:

Daddy even got in on the sledding action!

I was texting Grammy a picture when Mike got this perfect picture of Wes' snowball mid-air...right before it got me and Cora!  He was pretty much firing at point blank range, so all his snowballs hit their targets!

Then we headed back to the backyard to build a little snowman.

Our poor Frosty had a droopy eye!

Then we took a little hike to the back of the time share property.  This is where we usually stay and the last two years we were here, this area was covered with snow and was great for sledding.  We'll have to go earlier than March next year! 

Wes thought throwing pine cones into this little creek was great fun!  We literally had to drag him away!

It was getting late and cold, so we headed back to our room and Wes and Cora and I played by the fire while Daddy went to pick up a few things for dinner.  We brought up a stew we made in the crockpot the night before, so all we had to do was heat it up and mix a salad.  So glad we thought ahead!

Daddy picked us up some cookie dough, so we baked up some cookies and had them with a cold glass of milk, yum!

We had a little bit of a rough night, Cora was up at 2am and then Wes was up at 4 and ready to start the day, ugh!  Luckily Mike was able to get him to go back to sleep, but our day still started early at 6:30.  We brought oatmeal for breakfast and then got packed up (can't believe how much stuff we needed to bring to the mountains for just one night!).  But we were really excited to head to the tubing place down the mountain in Snow Valley!

Wes did awesome and loved tubing!  He started off by going down the hill with Mike on one big tube, but once Mike convinced him to get on his own tube, he was going down the hills by himself!

I had Cora in the carrier most of the time because she was so tired from all the excitement, but I did go down the hill a couple of times with Wes.  I even convinced him to go down the biggest hill with me!  We kept talking to Wes about skiing down hills instead of tubing and he said he definitely wanted to do that next year.  Here's hoping he feels the same way next winter!

Snow fun 2011
Snow fun 2010