Big News!

Rory and I realized the other day that most of our friends are pregnant now or have already had babies and we decided to jump on the bandwagon. So we bought a car!! It's sort of like a kid.... I think it's cute and can't stand to think of him getting hit by a car... ok, it's not really that much like a real baby. He's a 2009 Nissan Versa hatchback and had 57 miles on him when we bought him. His name is Chaucer although sometimes we call him the man mobile since Rory gets to drive him to work.

Goal Accomplished!

Rory and I have wanted to snowboard the Jackson pass for a few years now but never got around to actually doing it. This year we finally did! We went with our friends Wade and Katie and their little baby Aubrey. We just bundled her up and rolled her down the hill. Actually, we took turns babysitting her in the car. This top picture is where we hiked up to at the beginning of the run.

Looking down the hill to our destination. The whole run ended up being about eight miles long. On average it took us 40 minutes to get down. We did about three runs. By the end of the day my legs were so shot I could hardly control my board. It was great!

Wade and Katie being super excited to get going.

We were excited too.

The powder was soooo deep! It was really hard (for me) to stay up. But it wasn't bad falling down because it never hurt. It was getting up that was the problem.

Jackson Hole

We went to Jackson Hole on Monday for some fun family skiing. (And snowboarding). I was charged with teaching Laura and Sam how to snowboard. Sam took to it like a natural and I'm sure Laura would have to if she hadn't knocked herself silly on the first run. Poor girl. She face planted so hard she gave herself a nose bleed. The top picture is her recovering from the blow.

Ian really enjoyed it. He liked going fast and even tried a few jumps!

Here's Sam being super smooth on his board. Well, it's Pete's board really. Sam was carving his first run. Sadly towards the end of the day he fell hard on his bottom and got a headache.... concussion through the bum?

Go Laura Go! She got carving a little bit and looked good doing it.

Wipeout! I love the look of frustration. (Those are dad's legs, he was there having a good time too) ((And so was mom)). Thanks Sara for letting Laura use your board!

Skiing

Rory and I went cross country skiing this weekend with Jessie and William. We went to Kelly Canyon and it was beautiful. And, of course, we brought life savers. What's cross country skiing without life savers? We both had lots of fun and hopefully Jessie and William did too.

Wedding Dress

I know most of the people who look at this blog are already married but maybe you know people who aren't. I'm selling my aunt's wedding dress. She's asking $500 for it. The dress is a size nine and personally I think it's gorgeous. It's got really pretty bead work done on the bodice and the train. The train can hook up for easier walking around (last picture). I think the tallest you could be to wear this dress is 5'4-5'5 (no heels). Anyway, if you know anyone short who's getting married pass the word along!

Cabin Christmas

For Christmas this year Rory and I got together with his mom and sister and rented a cabin! It was awesome!
Our not so rustic kitchen

It had a loft with two beds and then two bedrooms downstairs.

A view of the living room from the loft. I highly recommend this cabin! What a fun Christmas.

Cross Country Skiing

One of the high lights of our Cabin Christmas (for me) was that we got to go cross country skiing every day! We could just put on our skis and ski off the porch. Sigh.... bliss.

Our merry little group setting out for a nice ski.

Look how much I enjoy my time on skis! The point of this picture was that you could see the Grand in the distance. It's hard to see in such a little pictures though. (It's right above my head)
And we found a phone booth! Sadly it didn't work. But it had some interesting equipment inside.
I never did get the hang of can phones.