We made a plan this week to go skiing today at Park City. Mel and Christian were on in our plan, and they came up last night and spent the night. Today we pulled it off our master plan. We did something. We went, we skied. Go team.
We packed gear last night. This morning we were up by 7 with the plan to leave at 8, but we didn't get out until 8:15. The traffic wasn't bad and we were pulling into the parking lot at 9. That was where we seemed to get delayed. Took forever for everyone to find their gloves and get their boots on and find their skis and poles etc etc...
Once a handful of the kids were ready, we told them to head over to the Cabriolet. Corey, Katharine, and I were the last ones to go on it. Katharine said it was fun. Everyone was waiting for us at the gondola. I took K potty first, then we took the Red Pine Gondola up. Fun.
I asked if she was going to ski with me. She said no. She is going to ski with her dad.
We were finally on the hill at 10. It was very crowded. We went up Saddleback Express. I told them that when Corey and I were here, the Sun Peak Express was fun and not busy, so we started down together that way, but then the kids all took off south on Mainline while Corey and I and PK went down Eclipse to Sun Peak. I skied with K for a moment and then she wanted Corey to carry her. I admit it was prob a little steep for a 3 year old.
We went up Sun Peak and then back toward Hidden Meadow where we stayed for most of the day. Con becauset that lift is busy, but pro cause it's an easy hill. It's also close to the bathrooms, so it was good. We told the kids to meet at Tombstone at 1 o'clock for lunch. Yesterday I got food at Walmart for lunch. Corey suggested sandwiches, but I didn't want to buy bread when we had wheat sourdough bread I made, even though the kids didn't love it.... Brief tangent about that: so the kids didn't like it, but I had some white flour that my mom let me have from their food storage on Monday. BUT I was pretty sure that it was very expired. There was no date on the bag, but the smell was def suspicious. BUT since they hated wheat and wanted white, I tried to make some bread with it yesterday. What I actually ended up doing was wasting my time and wasting some starter, cause it was all horrible tasting and bad. I didn't try any, but an unsuspecting child who took a slice let me know.
I threw out the bread and all the remaining flour. So today the only option was my wheat bread. At Walmart yesterday I got enough Nutella to make the wheat flour edible. I figured if I gave it a good coating, the kids would tolerate it. Thankfully I was right. Corey packed the bread and Nutella up in his backpack and carried it around all morning with two water bottles. Lunch time and the kids were happy with wheat. They ate it all up and we regretted not bringing up the loaf that we left in the car.
It worked out great. Corey "We just saved ourselves thousands of dollars!!" Haha, yeah, cause they charge $35 for a hamburger meal! So that was lunch, plus bananas and clementines, and then I also got Clif Bars and Beef sticks for everyone to take with them and I told them this was it for food - make it last, that's gotta get you through until 3. We took the group pic (at top of post) and then told them to have fun and meet us at 3pm at Red Pine. They all went up Tombstone and Corey and I went up Over and Out and then down Raptor Way so we could show Peter and Katharine the Orange Bubble Lift! They loved it.
Corey took K after that and I stayed with Peter. We did Hidden Meadow a lot of times. He liked the Hidden Bear green trail on the west of that lift, where you could sneak through the trees a little bit. We did that over and over. One time there were other kids on the trail and he and I got separated momentarily. I saw him, skied toward him, and then he sunk under the tree where he had been waiting for me.
Luckily Corey came by right then and he was able to rescue Peter. Some kids were done at 3 and they met up with Corey and took K back to the car. Corey stayed at Red Pine to count kids as they left. Peter wanted to keep going "one more time" and since Corey was still waiting for so and so, we'd go again. Owen went again, then we went again to try and catch him. "Ok, last run" - we said that a few times. Finally we were like "Ooookkkkaaaayy" and we took off our skis. Everyone is headed down?" Corey said Mel Christian and Owen went one more time on Hidden Meadow, and Peter said "I want to go one more time!" So we went one more time. And that really was our last one at 3:49, cause the Red Pine Gondonla closed at 4 so we needed to get on it to get back to the car. Though once we were on it we realized we prob could have skied down, darn! I like that Peter and Owen were so die hard! We were able to pack up quickly and got home a little after 5. I asked Corey if he wanted to go out for a date, since we missed last night (I was at a bridal shower) and he said yes, but then we both fixed ourselves a bowl of fruit and yogurt with homemade granola, and realized we prob didn't want to go out to eat now. So he has been working, I went with Abi to visit a neighbor who gave her some dresses for her mission, and now I'm doing laundry and giving kids baths before church tomorrow. It was a great and perfect ski day. I never like all the getting ready, but once that is behind us it's fun to ski and great. Now I'm just putting things back in order! I'll finish that on Monday.
One more thing - Abi asked me yesterday what Corey was doing before he started working on "this project". I haven't talked about it all too much here, but I did look up a few things -
Once when Sophi asked him about what he was working on, he said it was a time machine, and so for a long time that is what she says when she prays for him "Please help dad with his time machine" which just sounded stupid to me. Like, we actually need and want God to help us, so let's say what it actually is and call it what it is BY it's actual NAME so the angels know what to help with! I think we need to be specific. Although... maybe it doesn't matter, cause God obviously knows all that, he knows what it is and that it's not an actual "time machine". But sometimes Corey does say it's like a time machine, cause it will take him back in time so he can know what to do right for his career that will give us $ by the time we're at this point in our life (almost 50!). Well, now it's 10:15 pm and Corey just got home and I hear him telling Sophi that he fixed "The Flux Capacitor" followed with "Don't you know what the Flux Capacitor is??? It's the key part!"
Then I hear a clip from Back to the Future playing on youtube via his phone -
a clip of Dr. Emmett Brown saying "It's taken me almost 30 years and my entire family fortune to realize the vision of that day. (in awe...) Has it been that long??" Lol. I was laughing at the "entire family fortune" part, cause YEAH! That's where our would-have-been family fortune/retirement/etc has all gone - first towards his M0vie Mouth Project, now this. Things are feeling exceptionally tight and yet he keeps digging more and more into a hole for this "time machine" haha. But he was in good spirits tonight and spent some time explaining about some major breakthrough or whatever to Sophi and Natalie.
Abi and Lily were still awake so then we migrated into their room to visit a little more. Lily's in bed trying to sleep, and now the roles are reversed and the teens are the ones wanting to go to bed while Corey's the chatty one.
And then I was thinking about the Flux capacitor... and how just because that is working, that doesn't mean that he's out of the woods yet. True, it might be a key part and "what makes time travel possible" but it
also requires 1.21 gigawatts of power (supplied by plutonium or lightning) to function, which will only activate once the car hits 88 mph. Ugh... even if Corey's flux capacitor is working, there's gonna still be a decent amount of work ahead to get us back in time. I hope he doesn't get assassinated by the Libyans in the process! Well, I think we'll be ok regarding that, cause I trust Corey hasn't cheated anyone out of their plutonium by lying about creating a nuclear bomb or stuff like that. Ok, I'll end the Back to the Future analogy, though I am glad that we have an analogy about this project succeeding, not just one about us being like Shackleton's men stuck in Antarctica and desperate for penguins (
Oct 2025 &
Dec 2025). We have solid ground under our feet, so we're in a good place.
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