Friday, January 08, 2010

Early Christmas Surprise

On December 10th, the kids thought they were going to school.


Instead, we took them here -





... and here




... and here


And we all had a FABULOUS time!

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Lauryn's First Snowboarding Experience


On a cold December Saturday morning, Lauryn, Noah, and I took advantage of a Boy-Scout Ski Day to snowboard at Copper Mountain. I was pleasantly surprised at Lauryn's enthusiasm -- the first day snowboarding can be quite painful. Noah was equally impressive getting on and off the ski lift without my help.

The day was topped off by seeing all the members of the U.S. Olympic snowboarding team. Kelly Clark, 2002 gold medalist, inspired Lauryn by revealing that she started snowboarding at age 7. Noah was totally excited to get his helmet autographed by Shawn White, 2006 gold medalist.