Corbin's fieldtrip

Corbin's first grade class took a trip to a local old folks home to sing them songs and read to them.  I was lucky enough to go along.(Thanks Jill for watching the girls!)  This really was one of the funest experiences.  The kids were so excited and the grandparents were so animated!  I loved listening to their conversations.  This little video is just the end of one of the songs they sang.  Notice the Grandma in the lower right corner of the screen is trying to follow along with the actions!  I love it!  They were so cute!



Ski lessons!

Park City offers a program for novice skiers called Start Now.  For $25 you get a full day and night ski pass, a three hour lesson, and all your rentals.  Super deal!  I signed the kids up, and then thought, 'what the heck!'  I should buck it up and take a lesson myself!  So I did!

 The kids were SUPER excited but I must admit, I was concocting plans all morning on how I was going to get out of it.  (I'm kind of a sissy that way.) Luckily there was no out and I had a blast learning to ski!  The kids were naturals and were going off little jumps I wouldn't even go near.  It was so fun to see their confidence in their abilities grow!  I was sore for five days, so I probably won't be going again this year!

 Corbin biffed it!

 Kinzlee cruising!

 My nephew Jackson took a lesson too and was amazing!

 The kids wanted to keep going, but my legs were screaming "No way!"  So I sat at the bottom of the lift and watched them go down five more times before making them go! They're tough little nuts!

So sad that very shortly they will be much better skiers than their 'old lady' mom and will leave me in the dust!(or powder)

We realize we've gotten a bit behind...

 

but we've been really busy...

Celebrating Dad's 31st birthday,

starting sunbeams,

Curling our hair (of course),

teaching the kids how to ice skate,

cleaning up broken shower doors,

riding the new bikes Santa brought,

playing in the unfinished basement that Mom painted to look like a racetrack and shops,

                                     telling Grandpa that the market is all out of cheese today,

                                       sporting our new Christmas jammies,

                                               building forts with Dad while Mom is gone,

                                                        having picnics on the kitchen floor,

                                                   getting together for lunch with old friends,

                             watching the two most beautiful dancers in the whole world perform,

                        getting pictures of Kinzlee loading in the Ambulance for a ride to have lunch with the Mayor   (she was chosen one of five kids out of the entire school!),

                                                      playing in the snow and sledding,

being thankful,

                                                                 sneaking in naps,

                                    celebrating Kinzlee's birthday at the beauty school getting beautified,

                                attending the most perfect baptism of the sweetest 8 year old alive,

                                                              carving pumpkins,

                                                                     trick or treating,

                                                                                                              eating at Corbin's on Kinzlee's big day,

                                                    getting Kinzlee's ears pierced (yikes!),

life has definitely gotten us behind...

here's hoping the next few months will be just as exciting!