Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!

1st grade is a big year with lots of projects!  Dr. Seuss’s birthday provides the perfect project—make a hat based on a Dr. Seuss book.  These twinsies are getting older, so I had to take one last opportunity for Thing 1 & Thing 2.  I begged just a little and they went for it:-).  The J’s cut it the strips and I curled and stapled.  It was a labor of love, but man did it turn out cute!!

Taos, NM

Taos was a sweet little mountain—and just 3.5 hour drive south of Denver.  The skiing conditions were terrible due to lack of snow, but we managed to get a few runs in on the back side of the mountain.  We had dinner at the Stray Dog Cantina (it had a stray dog with a frisbee sitting outside:-).  And we had lunch at the Bavarian.  The food and atmosphere was amazing! We had schnitzel and sat at a long table with locals. We lost Jacob on the mountain during this trip.  He stayed calm and asked the lift operator to call his dad—and proceeded to rattle off Darin’s cell phone number (setting the iPad password to his phone number = parenting win:-)

Jackson Hole Skiing

Jackson’s famous town square features antler arches at each corner.

It was fun walking around town with these cuties!

Kenny’s favorite statue—George Washington

Sarah’s favorite statue—Mark Twain

These crazy boys have endless energy—especially after and 8.5 hour car ride!  The hotel gym was a great place to burn it off.

Snake River Brewery was a great spot to eat, play, and watch some Olympics.

Waiting in the LONG line for the tram to the top of the mountain. It took 45 minutes of waiting....

....and a 10 minutes ride to the top of the mountain. It was crazy windy, but we snapped a quick pictur before starting the descent.  Skiing the bowl at the top had Kenny in tears.  Losing John on the mountain at the end of the day had Mommy in tears!  We survived this extreme mountain.  It may be a few years before I’m ready to go back!  

Steamboat Springs—February

The only picture from the weekend doesn’t capture all the fun!  We skied with the Camaglia clan...celebrated Mardi Gras with a fun, New Orleans style band in the ski village, and took in the ski races and snow sculptures in downtown for winter carnival. Steamboat is a cowboy town, so the ski races took place on a snow-packed Main Street.  Kids were pulled by horse down the street—it was fun to watch!

SUPERBOWL!!!!

Darin was on his annual guys ski trip, and we enjoyed our annual eat junk food and watch the Super Bowl party!  Cheetos, Doritos and  nacho bar.  We tried something new—eating a jelly bean for every first down.  (Our stomachs may have hurt by the end!?)

Telluride ROCKS!

We had so much fun in Telluride!  What a beautiful mountain and town!
Our favorite spot on the mountains was “The Beach”.  They created a multi leveled amphitheater in the snow.  Kenny and John relax at the top level.  Jacob spent his time sliding down the hill with some kids.  Darin and Sarah enjoyed the live music and beer tasting.

ONE quiet weekend at home

We’ll be setting a record for travel this winter, skiing nearly every weekend.  So it felt good to relax in pjs and play some chess before the craziness hits!

This is one of the few snowfalls of the winter in Denver. The boys used sand buckets to make snow bricks and build a fort.  What fun!!