Silver Mountain Resort 2011

Last Friday night, we went with the Snells to Silver Mountain. We stayed over night at the resort and played in the water park both days and went up the gondola.

The best part for me was surprising Mason and Cooper with our little adventure.

Friday afternoon, both boys were at a friend's house playing. Which ended up being perfect. It gave me time to pack their stuff without them knowing. Jeff got off work early and went to pick up the boys. Neither of them were very happy that they had to leave their friends house. Jeff tried to tell them that we were going to go have some fun.

When we got home Jeff didn't let them get out of the van. Jeff came in alone and helped load the rest of our food and other stuff. They saw Jeff put our mayo, mustard, and chocolate milk in the back of the van. Of course they wanted to know what Jeff was doing with it. He told them we were taking it to Julia and Bill.

Here they are pouting.




Then I got Mason on camera complaining about us taking our mayo, mustard, and chocolate milk to Julia and Bill.

And what fun would the surprise be if Cooper didn't complain about something too. He didn't like that he couldn't stay at his friends house longer.

Once we got to the Snell's house, we again didn't let them out of the van because the little Snell people knew what we all doing and I didn't want them to ruin the surprise for Mason and Cooper.

Here they are complaining about not getting to play with Connor, Zach, and Ben. Oh poor Mason and Cooper, don't you feel SO bad for them?

Once we got close to the State line, Mason figured out that we were not going home and was mad that we were not. Cooper was so tried from complaining that he fell asleep.

We finally made it to Silver Mountain and they were very surprised and happy. I am kicking myself that I didn't get pictures of their faces.

We shared a huge condo with two bedrooms and a loft. All the little boys slept in the loft, which had a queen size bed and two twins.

Here is one of the views from our windows.

Ready for bed.

Getting ready to go to the water park.

Bill, Cooper, Mason, Ben, Julia

Saturday morning we went on the gondola. The gondola ride was cool. and long. There wasn't much to do at the top though. Just a swing set for the kids and a lame restaurant. Kind of disappointing. So after we let the kids play on the swing set for a bit, we headed back down to the water park and played there until dinner time.

At the top.

Over all it was a great little get away. One that we all decided would become our tradition over Labor Day weekend.