The Ward Family

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Skiing!

We spent every weekend in January and February on the slopes. Despite the record-setting low natural snow, Pat's Peak was cranking their snow guns all winter.

Another year and another fabulous Christmas vacation. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa Carlson's house. There were so many presents, we wondered if we would fit everything in our car.

After some exhausting fun with the Baird cousins, we shoveled a path, packed up and traveled to Grandma and Grandpa Ward's house for New Year's. Minions, anyone?

Once we arrived, we made several attempts to get a picture with all the Ward cousins, but it proved to be a difficult task.

Nevertheless, there was a lot of cousin love,

and there was even a glow-stick tubbie...

Charlie was a super trooper on the cold pheasant hunt with the guys.

And, we finally got a cousin photo!

Here's to a promising 2016!

Monday, February 22, 2016

Disney World

We spent Thanksgiving week at Disney World in Florida. It really was an amazing trip. We saw almost everything there was to see at all four Disney parks. The kids had a blast spending the week with their cousins and grandparents. The cousins did a great job keeping each other going. There were tons of smiles and laughter and hardly any tears or whining. Here are some of the highlights:

Favorite ride: Splash Mountain (Clara and Charlie), Seven Dwarfs Mine Train (Katy), Everest (Jared)
Favorite character meeting: Ariel (Clara), Mickey (Charlie and Jared), Elsa (Katy)
Favorite roller coaster: Everest (Clara and Jared), Dinosaur (Charlie), Space Mountain (Katy)
Favorite restaurant: T-Rex Cafe (Clara and Charlie), Akershus (Katy), Ohana (Jared)
Favorite show: Voyage of the Little Mermaid (Clara), Turtle Talk with Crush (Charlie and Jared), For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration (Katy)
Favorite resort amenity: Three swimming pools (Clara), Cars character statues (Charlie), In-room Keurig courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa (Katy and Jared)
Favorite souvenir: gemstone ring (Clara), Boba Fett's blaster and t-rex puppet (Charlie), coffee mug (Katy), T-Rex Cafe beer glass (Jared)
Favorite memories: being with Ella and Owen; Elsa telling me that when she tried to use her powers to cool things off, her snow turned to rain; and not wanting to put my arms up on the roller coaster ride (Clara); being with Ella and Owen; bumping my head on the steering wheel of the race car; and dancing with the lady who was on stilts (Charlie); drying Jenny's jeans with the bathroom blower after the Kali River Rapids; returning to Epcot so Clara could replace the first gemstone ring she lost within 24 hours; and watching Elsa freeze Cinderella's castle (Katy); movie on the lawn at the resort; Clara squeezing my arm hard on Everest then squeezing really hard when the ride turned backward; and how disappointed Charlie was when he didn't get wet the first time we rode Splash Mountain (Jared)

Friday, February 12, 2016

My Cheerleader

Instead of playing basketball this fall, Clara decided to try cheerleading. She did awesome and performed at the basketball half-time show.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Halloween 2015

This year we had a bat and a rock star for Halloween. The kids enjoyed their school parties and parades around town. Then we went to our friends' house to trick-or-treat.