slacker

I know the 3 of you who follow my blog are thinking that I am a slacker for not posting in a while.
I have been way to busy trying to come up with little white lies to tell my wife so that I could surprise her with a party to celebrate her 30th birthday. All the stress from the planning and getting ready for Christmas has now left me with the flu or some such thing. There has been tons of exciting things happening around here and I will get to posting about them in a day or two. Hopefully when I do post there will also be pics but only if Kathy can get them UN-erased. Yep they are all gone, bye-bye, no pictures for most of December. So until later..............

It finally snowed!!!!!

After Becca's guitar lesson last Friday we loaded up the car and headed up to Mountain High.
We arrived around 2pm to the sight of cars and people everywhere. Many of the people were parked illegally and I began to worry if there would be any place for us to park. Going snowboarding right after a huge snowstorm one week before Christmas was looking like a bad idea.
I drove over to the east resort where they were allowing cars in the parking lot and found a real decent spot. We took the tram over to west, picked up the kids passes, and hit the slopes. The kids had a really good time but they were a bit cold as it was 24 degrees and there gloves kept getting snow in them. We rode for a few hours and got home around bed time. It was a good first trip.

Ready to shred

Dude.....how cool is this? Our kids are stoked and ready to shred! Becca, Gabe, Elayna, and Dad all have new gear this year. The kids ask everyday "Daddy when are we going snowboarding". We all got season passes to Mountain High. I was able to go up today as it was the first day they were open with top to bottom runs. Hopefully
this weekend we will get some more snow, because as of now its pretty weak. If it snows I will take the kids up next week :) Stay tuned for pics of the kids rippin it up!.

The day after continued.....

After I (Brian) had a nap to recover --from being so awesome-- we began to decorate the house for Christmas. This has been a tradition in our house since Kathy and I got married. Every year on the day after Thanksgiving we pull out all the Christmas music, get the boxes of decorations out of the garage, and start celebrating. Kathy and the kids started with the decorations around the house while I began to set up the tree. We had forgotten all about the two injuries from the previous year. No worries though, with a little super glue we were able to reattach the head of the wise man
and the ear of the cow. "Christmas time is here again"!