The picture above is at Grandpa Max's house. We stayed a night there while attending mom's Uncle Errol Covington's funeral. It was nice to see some of mom's family and I wish we were a lot closer. Errol's kids seem all real together and normal. The few times we went out to his house back in the 80's were fun times. Chris (Errol's oldest son) let me ride his CR 250 which is a real mans motocross bike...and of course I couldn't handle hit and wrecked. I did speak to Johnny and his wife and reminisced on our gold hunting adventures. I'm going to scan and email a few photos of us and his dad together. Those were fun times and we agreed to keep in touch and maybe go for the gold again! I've decided to be like Sarah and make our blog kind of a journal of sorts. The funeral service really made me think about my past, present and future with nothing on paper/file except for my mission, which you can hardly read. So, feel free to read away if it doesn't bore you to death. Don't worry no real personal stuff...haha and probably not much detail or perfect spelling.
This past week nothing to exciting. Molly helped out at the kids school a few days and we (Molly and I) hit the gym together like 3 times. I have been going regularly around 4-5 days a week, but still need to reduce the calorie intake. On Thursday we took the kids to Red Robin and purchased some ski goggles at REI for them (see photos below). We went skiing today (Sat) at Timberline and it was an experience for the kids to say the least. We had them in a kids lesson all day which started at 9 AM. By about 10:30 I got a call saying Alia was having a rough start. For some reason, Alia has a problem trying new things. So we had a little "pow wow" you could say and I was about to yank her out of the class, but to my surprise after leaving her alone with one of the teenage helpers she came around and got back outside and on skis. I'm pretty sure there was some candy involved because when we picked them up at 2:30 PM she had a butt load of Starbursts. Caleb really had fun and so did Alia by the end. I got to see Caleb make a few turns and fall down. We'll go again here soon.... it's just a little on the expensive side.
Molly had a 1 hour private lesson and after we were able to ski together and Wow she is so much better! I took her down a few short but steeper runs and she did excellent. She's starting to get a big head now!!! Oh I almost forgot, that we saw my Uncle Dave Covington there. He and his family have a season pass and he was there skiing with some friends. I think I typed enough...maybe Molly will add some more later.
^Alia was the primary spotlight in last weeks program^
