(not) skiing

So I want to write about last weekend before it's this weekend. :)
The plan was to go to Davis, West Virginia for cross country skiing with mom and dad, ellen and joe, mary k, jen, kennedy and liam. jen and kennedy are joe's sister and brother in law and liam is their adorable son. Joe booked an amazing cabin with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and best of all an outdoor hottub, which was really the main reason I was excited to go. Even though it took 5+ hours to get there on a Friday after work, when we finally got there I immediately opened a beer, got changed and got in the hottub. It was fabulous.
It was a really great weekend - so relaxing and so much fun with family. Jen is pregnant with her second little boy, so it was great to see he with her big belly :) I love big bellies :)
Saturday morning AJ and I made breakfast eggs and sausage...then we were off to cross country ski. Even though there was no snow anywhere around the cabin we were told that the resort makes their own snow and was kind of up in the mountains, so we would be fine. But when we got there....snow was still scarce. Liam was able to find small patches that they packed that were good enough for him but the rest of us decided to just hike and rent snow shoes in case we came across any snow. The hiking was up hills that people would normally ski down....meaning SO steep! We definitely got a workout. Snow shoeing was actually really fun, it was my first time - it's a great way to have your hiking not be interupted by the snow, there's small grippers on the bottom so you can just keep trucking. We ended up hiking up to the point where we were as high as other ski mountaintops!
Saturday night the boys cooked us an amazing valentines day dinner, almost burned down the porch with the grill, and another night in the hottub!
Sunday we did a small hike before heading home by way of Pittsburgh to suprise Shayna :)
It was so great seeing the Shaws, I miss them a lot and I can't believe how big Raminator is!!!
Home sweet home Sunday evening and off to another week at work
I'm really enjoying work a lot, it's fun to be able to say I like my job. It definitely has it's challenges, but it's fun :)