Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Josi's 35th Birthday



Josi's 35th Bday--A great way to spend a potentially depressing bday--snowshoeing on a field trip with your 5 year old :) Nobody can resist enjoying their bday when 3 kindergarten classes sing happy birthday to you! It made for a great day!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

There She Goes...


Well, we finally got Emery going on the skiis--now we're working on teaching her to turn and stop!!! Ahhh, the distress of every parent teaching young ones to ski--how do we get them to go? And where did she go??? Emery is having a great time "being a patroller just like dad". She's talking about how she's going to have to start working nights "because she's on the ski patrol at the mountain". We just love that big spirit in a little body! We got to the mountain Saturday morning, and as we were all setting up our skiis, and stepping into our bindings, lo and behold, little 5 year old Emery had already put her skiis on and was skiing away. When Lance told me she was doing well, I didn't realize she was taking command of the mountain...I caught up to her just in time to hear her telling the snowboarder slipping by on her left, "this is how you need to ski, you need to make a pizza" Oh, how she makes us smile!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Sweet Baby Colin


Stacie and Colin came to see us today! We had so much fun playing with them all day long!

Snow Day







Lance went out of town for a few days and of course, we got dumped on by 24 inches of snow in one day! I enlisted the help of the neighborhood kids--including my own--and we dug ourselves out. Just as we were finishing up, our sweet neighbor, Ricky Hawks brought the tractor over and got the ice that we'd been hacking at for an hour!