Ski Weekend 2013

Well, our ski annual ski weekend turned out a little differently than in years past. We ended up with only one other couple joining us this year and that was Nate and Nicole. Joe and Heather, Ryan and Jen just couldn't make it this year. First time we weren't all together in years! It was still a great weekend! Nate and Nicole brought Annabelle along this year to ski. We all skied on Friday at Blackjack including Owen! Both Owen and Annabelle had private lessons for the 1st hour and a half. What a huge difference that makes! Aaron and I had picked up a ski harness for Owen before we left thinking that would have came in handy when we had first taught Grace. Well, needless to say Aaron returned the harness this week since we didn't even need to use it! Owen was a pro! Not to say that he didn't fall, a lot, but he was incredibly fearless! By the end of the day he was navigating his way over the jumps and graduated to a blue hill! The bigger hill did bring quite the tumble for the last run of the day. I was inside and had just looked out the window to see him screaming down the hill and coming to a huge crash! I thought for sure he would cry after that but no! Guess it was a blessing there was lots of fresh powder that day! Saturday just us adults went skiing at Indianhead. As we were leaving Owen was in tears cause he wanted to come with us. We all enjoyed another wonderful snowy day on the slopes. Afterwards we hit the bar at Indianhead to hear some music and have some beer. We then moved onto the Alpen Inn over by Powderhorn Mtn to see a guy play that we had seen another year by the name of Brad Emmanuel. He was SO great that we ended up following him over to a local bar called the Pub and Grub. We ended up meeting up with a group we had seen at the last bar and had a lot of laughs with them that evening! Always a good time had by all!

It has been a while since I have posted so I thought a short update was much overdue! Things have been low key here for the most part. Aaron got back a week ago from a business trip to Austin. We have been getting snow just about everyday. I don't mind the snow I prefer to have snow if it is going to be cold. I have been concentrating really hard of eating right and getting back to a regular exercise routine. I have to say now that I am in the groove I crave exercise! I joined back up at the Athletic Club with their new year deal and its nice to be back. The kids have been doing well. We had a bit of a bump in the road with Grace recently but it has been dealt with and are trying to move forward. She had been sucked into the cyber bully world and got into a bit of trouble over it. However, I think both Grace and us as parents learned our lesson. Otherwise she has been doing well in school a great report card with all A's and a B. So happy that she is still enjoying school and working hard! Owen has been doing really well and still very excited about school even though he says each morning he doesn't want to go. I think it is partly because he just doesn't want to get out of bed! He has started the book in a bag program where he brings home a book each night to read. In just one or two weeks he has moved up to level 3! It is so exciting to hear him read words on his own. Next week Aaron and I are traveling to Scottsdale AZ to visit Jeremy and Maria. Our friends Rich and Christina from Chicago are flying down with us and were kind enough to use their frequent flier miles to get our tickets! My wonderful nephew Phillip will be coming to watch the kids Thursday night for us and get them off to school on friday. He is going to school in Whitewater which is about 20 minute drive from us. The kids are SO excited to have him come and stay. The weekend duty will be Kay who is coming here to stay with the kids! The following weekend we will be going on our annual Team Hof Ver Kof (Team Yard Sale) ski trip with our friends. Looking forward to some exciting times in the coming weeks and blowing off some steam!!