This was the most unexpected winter family trip of a lifetime! Rocky Mountain Pizza, log cabin in the mountains, 16 ft of snow, I could go on and on! Let me show you!

Think about a time when you met someone(s) in your life, and they blew you away with their unexpected generosity.

These are the type of people who invited us to their cabin in Vail, Colorado for a week. Words cannot express how honored Brian and I are to call them our dear friends.

Without embarrassing Shannon, Rob, Brittany and their dad Jim, I have to tell you what they’ve done. This family is AMAZING! To see their generosity in detail is unreal. Many of you remember Shannon and Brittany, two beautiful sisters, we had the privilege of photographing their weddings. Needless to say, we fell in love with their family. So you can imagine how blown away we were when they called several months ago with an unexpected invitation.

Shannon and Rob said they wanted to get airfare for Pascaline and Blaze to come to their cabin in Vail. Would we be open to taking care of our airfare and spending some a week together? We were in shock. Are people really this generous!

Not only did they invite us to their breathtaking place, but they picked us up on Friday at the airport, gave us their SUV to drive while we’re here, brought us up to the cabin, spent the weekend with us laughing,

and skiing the best snow Vail has had in years!

Plus, sledding with us,

and then last night they taught us how to make “Rocky Mountain Pizza”,

and can you believe they have left us this beautiful 6 bedroom log cabin all to ourselves for the rest of the week! Brian and I are literally sitting here stunned as we look around. We can’t believe we are here for a week to play with the kids and rest. Seriously stunned.

It’s only Day Three, but without question it’s a Winter Family Trip of a Lifetime!

Being that our day job is what it is we’ve been snapping away. Here are some more of my favorites.

The kids eating their pizza! Pascaline, Blaze and Cade (the kids’ new buddy!)

Pascaline making her way through the snow. 16 feet of new snow this season!

Cara (Cade’s mom) giving her tired little guy a piggy back ride back to the cabin after a full morning of sledding. She is quite the mom, especially when she’s teaching kids to make pizza dough!

Rob took this one of his baby, Ruby! Good job Rob with point of view!

I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking a photo exercise(s) on how to shoot in the snow might be an appropriate thing for the blog this week! What do you think!

Tomorrow I’m going to show you the “not so dreamy” part of the trip. 🙂 Helping your kids learn to ski is a cool thing, but if you’ve done this you feel our pain. If you haven’t done ski school for kids, you can see it tomorrow for yourself and then feel our pain. 🙂

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xo,

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