April 2025

Skylar celebrating Anna's 14th Birthday 

Madden's 13th Birthday

We officially have another teenager in the house with Madden turning 13! In typical Madden fashion he kept his birthday really chill.  Requested steak dinner with the family and a margarita glass full of cookies and cream ice cream.  We did take him and 3 friends to conveyor belt sushi (which of course I forgot to take a photo) and that was how he wanted to celebrate.  

Dance Team Banquet

 Skylar had her end of the season dance team banquet.  Skylar really wasn't super thrilled to be on the frosh team her first year but in the end she had a great time and made really sweet friendships.  

Spring Break 2025

    It had been almost three years since our family took a trip to Mammoth. I’ll admit, I wasn’t too excited about spending spring break in the snow—I was craving something more tropical—but the kids and Jake were all in on a snow trip. In the end, I’m so glad we went. This turned out to be one of our best Mammoth trips yet.

Madden started snowboarding, and for only his second time, he absolutely crushed it. We also got to spend a lot of time with our friends, the Mirkin family. I honestly had one of my all-time favorite ski days with them—just nonstop fun!

Skylar was lucky enough to have her best friends up there too, and she got to ski with them for a couple of days. One of the biggest highlights was the kids conquering the challenging Cornice run—we couldn’t have been prouder.

All in all, it was such a great trip, and we’re already looking forward to making ski vacations a more regular tradition for our family!

Ernest and Mirkin's do Mammoth

The view from Corness.

Skylar with her crew..Miles, Grace, Anna and Skylar