Saturday, January 26, 2008

Weeks In Review



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^

4 comments:

Sarah said...

That sounds like you guys had a really good time on the slopes. Riley has been wanting to take Kendle and get her some lessons for the day. I have never been and will probably ever be a big ski fan, I hate being cold! So glad you guys got to go to the funeral and see some of the family. We don't make that trip often enough. We have so much snow here and it continues to come down. I'd say we have about five inches at least. It's crazy but Kendle is loving it. Our church was cancelled because of it today and I'm hoping the snow plow guys come do our street soon!

Anonymous said...

Loved the pictures! I have to admit...I have never been snow skiiing.

Love hearing all you're up to! Can't wait to see ya'll real soon.

Anonymous said...

It has been a long time since I have voluntarily layed down in the snow. Skiing is usually fun once you get going but I don't have the drive to get out and be cold like I used to have. Unless there is golf involved of course.

Anonymous said...

Not sure where to post this but I wanted to ask if anyone has heard of National Clicks?

Can someone help me find it?

Overheard some co-workers talking about it all week but didn't have time to ask so I thought I would post it here to see if someone could help me out.

Seems to be getting alot of buzz right now.

Thanks