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TUBING AND SNOW FUN







Here we are in the last days of Winter and we are loving it all. We took the children tubing and boy of boy did we ever have fun. They had never been before so it was an adventure for all of us. They had to ride the tube up the hill by themselves and we were not sure how that would work. The employees at Kingvale were more than wonderful to us. They helped us out and let me tell you, it was great. They all rode up the hill just fine. No one tried to get out. At the top we all lined up for our run down the hill....again one at a time. The children got more daring with each run. Merrill and I loved the smiles on their faces and the giggles. They were so funny.


Jericho made it is soul goal to eat his lift ticket. Micah just let us all do most of the work for him. Mordachi learned how to go down hill in several different positions. He was sure enjoying himself. LisaMarie was forever the big sister no matter who she was helping. She even raced me and was staying totally with me and then crashed :o( Jesse and Jeremy loved being able to do things by themselves and then with the younger siblings. McClain and Joey had fun just being both the youngest and then trying to do all that the older ones were doing. It was just crazy.


To many the task of taking so many children with disabilities on a tubing day seems unreal. Our main goal is to give our children a life. It is also our goal to show people that the children love to have fun too. The love to experience things and to so things that in some ways seems almost impossible for them to do. We have always made it a way of life to ask ourselves just how can we do it, not to just say we could never do that. It seems that the only child that does not get to do everything we do is Joseph. It is hard for him to grasp what all is going on with being duel sensory impaired..meaning blind deaf...he just does not understand what is taking place and so much scares him. Hopefully we will find more ways to get him to enjoy the "wild" side of life.

Enjoy the pictures of a day filled with joy.


Comments

Anonymous said…
Roberta -
That looks like everyone had so much fun tubing!!! I can't wait until we can take Ayden to the mountains!!! I am hoping the pulm will let us this summer... I think we will go nuts if we can't!
Here's to spending more quality alone time with our families!!
Dawn
9:30 PM
Anonymous said…
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4:09 PM
Anonymous said…
How Awesome!!! Great pictures. I wish the girls and I could of been there with you. Oh well maybe someday we'll be able to live closer. I'm glad y'all had such a great time. Love, Aunt Tammy
9:29 AM
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