Kids Skiing

Skiing with the kids was fun this winter. We got up half a dozen times with them and had a great time. Bode doesn't care to learn to stop... He would yell "Fast" and "Wait". We often would go with our good friends the Moyes. Of course, Shaun tried to teach them air, and in the end all they wanted was to go off jumps. Moyes said "All I expect is all you got" to little Anna. She would put her skis toward the jump and right at the top of the jump sit down. I think it was all she had to give!!

Suit

Cliffy got a suit.. 1st once since the mission 13 years later. We got it for a big job interview Sunrise had with Herriman. It did not go well. we are ready to give the suit away. Cliff said next time he wears it Bode will be getting baptised...

Tax Season

This is what tax season looks like at my house. Please boys sit still for another hour.. Yes, you can watch dogs again. This chair sits two feet to my right and faces a 6 inch video player. I have huge televisions in my home, and this six inch play gets the most use and love. Check out the "special stickers" bode has on his hand. He thinks they are extra special cause they match the stamps mom uses all day long...

Where's Ryder?

I left the boys playing in this ottoman, that I keep the toys in. When I came back into the room a few minutes later the lid of the ottoman was down, and Bode is leaning on it saying, " Where Ryder Mom?" He is in that stage where he likes to hide and you find him. You put his shirt on in the morning and when it is over his head and he cannot see he says "Where's Bode?"... Well he had folded Ryder in half and stuffed him in the ottoman. Ryder was playing along, he was quietly dealing with the squished dark.. Anything for a brother!

Snow Gods Produced

Call in sick, Call in dead... I don't care quit your job. Get to the ski hill....We have received 7 feet of snow in the last 7 days... I LOVE SPRING!!! I have been so fortunate to ski 3 of those seven. Thanks to my mom and my sister for babysitting. My dad for going with me, and my husband well, for everything else....Yesterday Little Cottonwood canyon just Closed for over 36 hours, I cannot remember this ever happening in my lifetime. So today with sunny skies, and 7 feet of new snow... WOW, a friend today described his happiness about the snow that "I am so filled with Glee that I almost wet myself." I cannot explain it to a non skier. If there is such thing as momentary happiness, this is a 10, on the one to ten scale. I was sitting on the lift this morning with my dad, and not a track around.. that has got to be happiness. It is like God opens the windows of heaven and lets us in for a day... Thanks for skiing Key Hole with me Dad! You rock the house!!!

Ryder on the Move....

Yesterday we put Ryder in the middle of the hall, and Bode and I crawled up and down the hall around him....

Today...6 months and 27 Days... I left Ryder in his room on the floor. Went to Bode's room to get him dressed, when I came out Ryder was out of his room and half way down the hall. We are on the move...We are not necessaily crawling, but we are up on all fours and then falling forward.

Growing Up

When Bode gets excited or has done something awesome, like climbs up the slide backwards, or jumps really high on the tramp, or gets his dad to jump with him, he did it today, cause Chase is coming to color Easter eggs with him. He raises both arms up in the air, and yells "Yeah"...

Bode got this awesome new Blue Car, from his Granny Kathryn. I asked her to babysit last week while I went to the dentist and when I came home, my son had thought he had gone to heaven. He rides it around the circle as fast as his little legs will carry him, and when he gets back to the house he says.." I fast" It really is cute. He gets dressed fast every morning so he can go ride his "car".. Thanks granny! So after having the car a week this is what his shoes look like. When we got the car the shoes looked perfect, and yesterday, he asked for new shoes, and I couldn't understand why.

It snowed last week, the day after it was 65 degrees, we all went out to make a snowman. Cliff cannot just make a normal snowman, it had to be a gigantic one. The bottom ball was as big as both Cliff and I could push together. The second ball took some engineering skills to get it up... We had tons of fun.

I was just talking on the phone to a friend, and I thought.. Wow Bode sure is quiet, he must of lay ed down for an early nap.. So I kept talking on the phone.. Well 10 min later I decided to check on him... I opened his bedroom door, to Bag Balm everywhere..All over the drawer, All over his clothes, All over the dresser. So I said.. "What are you two?" and with his limited words he looks up and smiles and says "Yeah, two!"