Tahoe March 2009

What a great trip! We planned it over the Christmas holiday when we got to have a brief visit with Joe and Susie at Kim's house and it actually happened! You know how those things tend to go.... one or another of the families gets a sick kid or has to work or bows out to due some sort of family drama or another. But we all made it to Tahoe together for a long weekend of good food, good friends, and good times.


We left Thursday after work and ended up driving the whole way. Lots of loud music- and kids that slept- made the drive easy and fast. We arrived at 1:30 in the morning and the kids waited patiently under heavy blankets on the couch while Brian and I set up the beds, turned on the heat, unloaded the car, etc.... At one point Tanner asked me, "Mom, can I PLEASE go to bed now???" That's a first, believe me!

Joe and Susie arrived the next afternoon and Kim, Bill and the kids joined us later that evening. It was like a daycare with the five kids running around, all involved in various activities and mostly trying to get the adults to play freeze tag with them. Jake was the oldest one there, at six years old, and took a real liking to Jasper. The picture to the left is Jake sharing his iPod with him- each with one side of the headphones.

Each of the families took a night to cook so the chores were divided and made easier with bottles of wine and a few beers. Despite having some sick kids (and, hence, kids that didn't sleep very well) it was a really fun and relaxing weekend. Susie and I even got to go to a Bikram class on Saturday morning while Joe and Bill skied and Brian and Kim took the kids to the Discovery Museum. Sunday we switched spouses again as Brian, Kim, Joe, and Susie took the oldest four kids tubing while Bill and I took the younger two back to the museum and did some grocery shopping.

We watched some movies, read magazines, listened to lots of good music, and reminisced about past Tahoe trips- including Kim's famous "Worminator" move in charades.



The drive back home was uneventful -and reminded us once again that an 8 hour drive is nothing- especially if at the end of it you get to spend quality time with lots of old friends.