Snowmobiling for NIcholas's 10th birthday.

Today we went on a Snowmobile tour for Nicholas' birthday. It was beautiful. The boys loved it but I was a little apprehensive. They enjoyed the free time that they got to practice their jumps and I was thankful we were not on the edge of the mountain.

Nicholas rode with Daddy, and Matthew rode with me.

After the 3 hour tour we all went to Angel Fired Pizza for dinner YUM!!! Then we got our stuff and Nick Smith and headed to Colorado where we would ski in Monarch the next day. It is a 3 1/2 hour drive if you don't forget your husbands ski coat half way there.

Fourth day of our trip -sledding

We had a blast sledding with Kim and Mike!

I love this man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Third day of our trip!

Tracy took Matthew to his final day of ski shcool. While the rest of us hit the slopes again. The weather was great again. Tracy, Nicholas and I went down dream catcher a few times and then we met up with nick and went up Chilli express again. I had a great time until we got to the "blue" steep spots which I stressed out a little and eventually made it to the bottom.Matthew with Ms. Sonya.

We went to the Rithcey Slater Uptown Winer that evening and enjoyed listing to the band.

Matthew brought his blanket and tiger to go to sleep. The boys love it there. I know what you must be thinking - you take your kids to a winery and even put them to bed there? It is not like that! It is a very family friendly place and he was pooped from skiing and wanted to cuddle we were only there for a couple of hours. Everyone brings their dogs and snacks to share ( I brought home made Carmel corn ( B's recipe) and meatballs.

Nicholas loved playing with the dogs and playing darts with Jenny.

Kim and Mike came to visit on their way home from Las Vegas. We had a great night!!

Second day of our trip

Today we got up at 7:30 and had Matthew at ski school by 8:30. He was so excited, we saw Adam, his instructor from last year that is now in charge of ski school.

After we got Matthew settled we went and picked up my skis. I started off on Dream catcher with Nick for 3-5 runs and felt ok and we headed up Chilli Express the 3 1/2 mile lift. It was beautiful!!!! I enjoyed the slopes until we got to the first steep pitch and I panicked but my patient coach- Nick helped me through it. I just am having problems not parallelling, I think I am just scared of the speed thing and want to wedge. I hope I can get over this fear where I can someday ski with my boys.

We saw Tracy and Nicholas at the top of the mountain!

It was a beautiful day!!! After the long run we all met for lunch. My stomach was in a knot so I could not eat!

I saw Carlos and Matthew while I was waiting for ski school to end. I even got to see him come down Exhibition. Tracy and Nicholas took off for a few more runs while I went and picked up Matthew. He was with Carlos today and only 2 other kids, and he did great!!!! We had some hot chocolate and headed home.


Carlos was filling out his ski report card! An A+ student!!!

We made a snow family of four. We had a blast doing that, Matthew has such an imagination.

Trip to Angel Fire NM

We left on Tuesday after Matthew's Kindermusik class around 6:00 and drove half way to Childress Texas (1:30am) and stayed at the Best Western where the boys had Texas waffles for breakfast. We were off by 7:45 for our second half of our trip. We stopped for lunch at the historic Brown hotel. and arrived in Angel Fire 1:30 local time. We barely had the car unloaded before Tracy and Nicholas were hitting the slopes. Matthew and I found a wonderful sledding hill right behind our condo.

The boys had a blast riding their scooters and having tumbleweed races at the rest area.

Matthew making a snow angel!

We found this fort behind the condo.


We had a blast sledding!

Monster Jam

The whole family made a night of it and went to the Monster Jam at the Reliant center. Tracy decided to get tickets after a 3 hour marathon of watching them on television. My boys have always loved trucks of all kinds. Nicholas and Tracy went several years ago but this was Mine and Matthew's first experience. We had a blast - much better than I thought.

Matthew was not so sure about the noise, it was LOUD !

New Year's Eve 2009

It was nice to be home and bring in the new year with our neighbors!

(even if it was a little before midnight) sad to say we were in bed before 12:00.

The kids had a blast setting of tons and tons of fireworks.