Dec Pic a Day

Liz challenged me to a pic a day challenge for December. I didn't quite make it so I faked it! Some of the pictures are a little off with the dates they were actually taken, but if you don't tell Liz, I won't tell Liz. What she doesn't know won't hurt her! ;)

Roger and the boys had a lot of fun hunting today. He said they learned somethings and he worked on learning some more tonight. I think it is awesome that they are out hanging out and having fun...not so awesome is me having to sit here tonight while he watches a video that teaches him to use a duck call properly! Ugh! Just shoot me!

Making time to scrap!

I haven't made much time lately to scrap, so since I got a new kit yesterday from Christine to play with I did a birthday page for Kylie.

It is quite quiet in the house this morning...the boys all went duck hunting with their dad and Uncle Jim and Kylie stayed the night a friends house last night. Well it was quiet...someone's alarm is going off upstairs. Guess I will go see if I can turn it off...it is very loud!

Hope everyone had a great new year and that your 2009 brings you joy!

Whole other ball game!

Well, I have to say that skiing in December is very different than skiing in March! Not only was this our first trip here alone...it was our first trip that wasn't over spring break. Some of our gear just wasn't up to -3 degree weather! We headed out as usual around 8:30 am and were one of the very first people to hit one of our favorite slopes. Tomahawk had maybe one or two ski tracks in front of us when we got there. Another difference was POWDER!!! Tons and tons of powder. I looked down as I started out on Tomahawk and my skis and feet up to my mid-shins were buried! It was kind of like learning something totally different to ski in this stuff. It was a lot more work!

By the time we got to Rendezvous (a hilltop restaurant) my feet and fingertips were numb. My socks and gloves just weren't what I needed. Roger had to ski the last bit without his goggles because they frosted up on the INSIDE and he could not see. When we got to Rendezvous his eyelashes were freezing together! After some hot cocoa and a little break we started to head back down the mountain to adjust our gear. We realized that it was only a little before 10am! OMG! Time flies when you are freezing!

I got new gloves and added my warmer socks, took a small break in the room and Roger headed back up. Roger hit some tougher slopes without me and was pooped. We met up later and went back to Tomahawk for one more trip from the top. Tomahawk was nice and we enjoyed our trip down the hill. We realized why there were so few people this morning though....apparently in Dec. people wait till a little later to let it warm up some before heading up the mountain. Sissies! :)

We have reservations tonight at Hazie's, a restaurant on the mountain top for our anniversary dinner. I am hoping to get some good pics up there tonight...but we will see. We did take a couple of goofy ones earlier that I will post for you.

Steamboat Springs, CO

We are now in Steamboat for the weekend. Roger and I that is. Tomorrow is our 22nd anniversary. Roger and I first came to Steamboat skiing with the youth group in highschool. This is our 7th trip here and our first ever trip alone. It is in the lower teens here and quite a bit colder that when we usually come in March. We came through a pretty good snow storm coming in, so the mountain should have fresh powder for skiing in the morning! I took a couple of pictures on the way up that I thought I would share with everyone.

Merry Merry Christmas!!!

The stockings are unstuffed, the packages are open, the mess cleaned up, the turkey and dressing are cooking and we have already eaten an entire pumpkin pie! I hope your holiday is going as well as ours is! We love and miss you all! Have the very merriest of Christmas holidays!

Tombtown, AZ

Well, we are in Arizona now. Our first day here, we all jumped in the bus and headed to Tombtown! Also known as, Tombstone, AZ. This a trip we took mainly because lil' miss Kylie wanted too. This was her 3rd trip down there and she is the reason we started calling it Tombtown as that is what she said when she was little. She doesn't call it that now and she corrects the rest of us when we do. Of course we do it anyways. We stayed in a bed and breakfast that had a balcony over looking the main street there (Allen Street). It was a neat place to stay, although probably funner at a busier time of year.

We did a couple of tours, like the haunted history tour that Disney has there and Bird Cage Theater. It was actually kind of neat to read and hear about all the history that happened there and already have seen the Tombstone movies. Obviously, not everything in the movies is acurate, but some of it ties to what they say in their narratives. We also rode the the stage coach on a short tour that was kind of nice, but we could have done with out the gas the horses were passing back our way!!! Nasty!!!

Kylie had been looking forward to the Haunted History tour and was really having fun, then at the end of the first scene they have little air hoses pointed at the audience and they go off with a popping sound. We all jumped at the first one...then the first thing she did at each location was to look for the air hoses! It was a walking tour where you pushed a button when you were ready to watch it and she scooted a little further back each time. It was cute.

Of course, as always we stopped at Boot Hill on the way out of town... I think it is a little strange to wander around and look at headstones, but I have to giggle at the one that says, Here lies Lester Moore, 4 slugs from a 44 - No Les No more! I guess Les is probably way more popular in death than he was in life!

Since we are back in Phoenix now, we are working on all the final details of Christmas and waiting for the arrival of the jolly fellow!

My husband..

You know, as husbands go, I lucked out and got a pretty good one. Of course, he isn't perfect, he is still a man after all. But when compared to other husbands/men....he get pretty darn good marks! I had been noticing lately that I had been getting a lot of good pics of him and decided to do a page dedicated to him. I know I don't tell him often enough (partly because I rarely see him lately!) how special he is to me and what a blessing he has been in my life. It is easy sometimes to take for granted those things/people who just seem to have always been there and that you can always count on. So during our anniversary month, I have done a page just about him.