This year instead of traveling during the holidays we thought it would be fun to go on a family vacation, something we rarely do.  It seems like every time we travel it is for a wedding or family reunion or something like that. So we decided to take the boys on a skiing/sledding/snowball fight trip to Crystal Mountain (a resort here in WA near Mt. Rainer). We stayed at a cabin near the resort for 3 nights and enjoyed our days playing in the snow. Now I don't ski myself (I'm more of a sunshine warm weather girl) but Nick was on a ski team growing up in Utah and worked at resort during his high school years as an instructor and lift operator. So needless to say this is his element. Nick took Carson with him 2 of the days to the resort and taught him to ski. According to Nick Carson did a pretty good job, according to Carson he considers himself "an excellent skier". In fact Carson had no problem telling people so in the lodge and the hot tub as well as handing out ski advice. Really where does the confidence come from? Now Spencer and I took it a little bit slower and enjoyed snuggling and watching videos in the cabin, drinking hot chocolate and sledding together. We got really lucky and had beautiful weather the majority of our stay. Our only mishap was that we lost power for about 15 hours one afternoon/evening. Is it just me or do power outages seem to follow our family? So was it worth it? Well as we were pulling away from the cabins ready to head home I turned around and saw Carson crying in his seat. He said he was sad to leave because he had so much fun skiing with Dad. So the answer is YES it was worth it.