i love when ryan comes.

like i've said before once a month my cousin ryan comes to logan for the weekend.

he comes his job in the military, but he will usually do something with mel and i on saturday nights.

this particular saturday he decided to take us up snowboarding. mel had never been and i haven't been able to go since high school. we were both super excited to go!

that night we got on the life, and ate it as we tried to get off.

luckily though ryan wasn't much better at getting off of the lift.

he had to sit with this poor girl who was by herself. the lift reached the top and she gracefully slid off...ryan on the other hand forgot to get off and so he ended up just jumping off.

he's a big guy standing at like 6'2 and when he jumped he jumped right on his poor little riding buddy.

honestly it was like watching one of those movies where the cop slams into the oblivious person.

definitely the greatest thing i saw all night.

we were bad.

really bad.

we only got to go down the hill twice because it took us so long, but it was so much fun!

i'd forgotten how much fun snowboarding was!

it was such a fun weekend!

i decided to wear my pink boots [from a child's world] up skiing.

the only problem was that they have absolutely no traction on them.

as we were trying to walk down the mountain i was slipping and falling with every step i took. finally ryan gave mel his board and i hopped on his back. things were great until he yelled at mel and said, "hey watch this!"

next thing i know he back flops into a huge pile of powder.

snow up my shirt.

down my pants.

and basically everywhere.

such a gem, that ryan.