Snowboards and snowmobiles and lots of smiles

This past weekend matt and I headed to Madison to visit family and really just get some us time. Our awesome family said they'd watch the girls while we took time to enjoy our favorite sport season. We went snowmobiling through Madison area. It was a lot of fun!
I never grew up with snowmobiling but matt is very used to them. I am do hesitant about them. We went snowmobiling in new Hampshire 2 years ago and I actually lost control after being cut off by someone on the trail.  It was one a curve and he was hugging to far to my right resulting in me over turning and then going major left into the ditch. I bailed, yes jumped off, which turned out perfect because the snowmobile shutoff and ended up sticking straight up in the ditch.  Matt came around the corner to see just the snowmobile. He was a little panicked and helped pull me out of the 5 feet of snow after her found me unharmed. Fast forward to this weekend I just started out going really slow. Matt called it grandma speed. Then things got better and we had a lot of fun. It was fairly straight trails and there wasn't many people on them. :)
We also went to cascade mountain north of Madison and did some snowboarding. I love snowboarding.  I hate riding chairlifts though. Ugh. Snowboarding down the hill you don't notice any cold. But the chairlifts are like throwing yourself in a freezer and you just sit there and endure. By the time I get off my face feels frostbite. All in all a great snowboarding trip. Except I majorly wiped out getting off the lift and ended up on top of some dudes skies. Opps. I apologized from in between his skies...embarrassing!  Matt stood off in the distance not claiming to know me. Thank goodness for goggles, helmets and masks!
Peyton and Ellee quite enjoyed their time playing with cousins but as usually it's always nice to get home.
Ellee has been quite enjoying the box house I made her. It's so cute she takes her leap pad in there and plays some games and of course mr.bear joins her in there as well!