Skiing at Brighton

Oh how I love the mountains and snow and the fun that comes with skiing with my family.  It was a perfect day with good snow and bright blue skies.  The kids went to ski school and I got to ski with the adults.  FUN FUN FUN!!!

And after the day was over I went to the lodge to find my mom and kids sitting by and talking to Julie without my mom or Julie realizing the connection.  Julie and I sent this picture to Todd saying hello :)

Fall Break

We did a staycation for Fall Break and it was a blast.  We had a sweet room at the Newpark Hotel in Park City....maybe too sweet since we had our own hot tub out on the deck.  But it was so much fun.  Our hotel was amazing.  We shopped, we ate at "fancy" restaurants.  We did the Alpine slide and rollercoaster. We went to the Olympic park and saw some skiers practicing jumps and landing in the pool.  Luana loved riding the ski lift and seeing the beautiful mountains.   It was such a fun weekend away.

Flashback Friday

Since it's ski season I thought I'd flash back to a ski trip. I'm pretty sure it was 1994. I was living here going to BYU and the family came out to visit from the flatlands of Missouri to ski.

Danny

Doesn't he just look cool?

Mom

My mom is one heck of a skier. She skied with the downhill team at WSU in her youth and can kill most of us on the mountain even still. She has had a season pass for the last few years and goes 1-2 days a week. She was born to ski!

Me and Heidi

You see that hot outfit Heidi is wearing? That was my Christmas present from Grandma Giboney in 1990 when I was coming out to BYU. I got the sweet hot pink jumpsuit and my great-aunts old skis. The outfit has a little black up top but the pant part (remember it's a jumpsuit) was hot pink! I skied in that outfit my entire freshman year. Oh and I almost forgot...Heidi borrowed my outfit to sled that first Christmas before I had even worn it and ripped a hole in the butt so it had an awesome black rear-end on it. It looked like it was supposed to be there....kind of. I have got to find a full body photo of that outfit. It rocks!

Jeannie and David

Was this the time Jeannie cried at the top of a mogul run? I can't be sure...but what I do know is that Mark and Timmy could tear it up even back then.

Let it Snow

We are on our third storm this week and today's was a big one. It is so beautiful! I love waking up in the morning and seeing fresh snow on the ground and in all the trees. I love it when the mountains are covered in snow, and not just for the skiing. Of course, I have only skied once since Tayson was born and that was right before Christmas, but it was a blast and I hope to go again this season. Claire loves the snow too. Everytime she sees it she just stands at the window saying "noooo mama nooooo". I didn't get to cuddle back into bed after I saw the snow since I had to teach spin at the crack of dawn this morning - and lots of people ventured out in the snow to join me at the gym so it was great. The parking lot at the gym was pretty funny since no-one could see the lines there were cars all over the place. Then this morning poor Tayson was at the bus stop for 30 minutes (the bus was 25 minutes late and I sent him out early since I thought it would take him longer to walk in the snow). Of course he decided not to walk and Todd was nice enough to drive him to the bus stop. The kids just played and had a big snow ball fight while waiting for the bus. Back in the days of school buses for me we never would have had school on a day like today. We would have seen the snow (even 2 inches) and turned on the radio to hear all the school cancellations. Ours almost always got cancelled because we had some "country roads" people that came to our school. I loved snow days growing up but my kids will never see them living in Utah where no-one is afraid of a few feet of snow. It's hard to sit in my office looking out the window at the snow fall, it is the perfect day to be at home in warm jammies with hot cocoa and a good book.