Happy Monday friends!! I thought starting an “Instagood Monday” series on the blog would be a good way to share some of the pictures that rarely make it off my phone or out of my instagram feed…So if you follow me on instagram, you may have already seen some of these…but through these posts maybe you will find out more about the stories that go along with them!…Hopefully these posts won’t be boring, but at the very least I know my mother-in-law will like looking at them because she doesn’t have instagram!

I can’t believe how quickly this past weekend flew by…It feels like Sunday barely existed because we were so exhausted from our day trip that we slept in late…We woke up early to go skiing with some friends on Saturday after snagging a really good Living Social deal on lift tickets…I was super nervous but also really excited!!

I used to go skiing with my family all the time before my dad passed away in 06…and not to brag..but I was pretty good at it:)…or as good as you can be living in Virginia where the mountains aren’t very big…My dad was from Germany so he grew up skiing in the alps… but he still loved taking us to different resorts in our area! It was kind of his “thing” to plan the ski trips for our family since my mom doesn’t ski…so after he died the ski trips just stopped happening…and so it had been over SIX years since I had been…It is crazy how fast time goes by…and I was really scared I wouldnt even make it down the bunny slope without falling…

But muscle memory is an amazing thing people! I was really hesitant at first, but by the end of the day it almost felt like I had never stopped skiing! Our good friends Melanie and Colin both snowboard instead of ski, and I was so impressed..snowboarding seems like it would feel so unnatural to me and if I ever try I’m sure I’d spend most of the day on my butt…maybe one day when I’m feeling brave I’ll give it a shot…

I woke up Sunday feeling so sore…I dont think I’ve used some of the muscles I did on Saturday since the LAST time I went skiing..yikes. But it was so worth it! It’s been especially hard to get back into the swing of things this Monday for some reason..Maybe because I’m already dreaming of our next ski trip…next year we are thinking of renting a cabin with some friends so that we can ski for a few days!

Riding the ski lift! We had a few interesting adventures trying to get on and off of this thing…

Good friends!

Happy Monday!