Beer

My birthday present from Holly:


Odell's Easy Street Wheat

Steamboat

This past weekend we met Holly's sister Aimee in Steamboat. Her daughter Kalie came home on spring break with her boyfriend Nate. Kelsie and Alex and Alicia also were there. The snow was amazing for late March and the weather was nice and warm at the bottom. Spring skiing!


Lilly on the gondi - ready for the day!


An awesome run. Knee-deep powder and steep.


Beer at the bottom.


Lunch with Lilly.

March Pictures

A couple pictures from this month. We're starting to ride outside more and Lilly has started soccer.


Gooooooooooooaaaaal!


Workin' it.


Clear Creek Canyon fire - from Lookout Mountain

Time Warp

Lilly's spring play was Time Warp, a play about time travel. In the play a family of 4 children travel to the night of the Titantic, the night of President Lincoln's assasination (thwarted by the kiddos), the Oregon Trail and forward in time to Star Wars. Lilly played a passenger on the Titantic and a traveler on the Oregon Trail.


Oregon Trail


Tired from a day's travel


Sleeping on the Titantic

Lilly 2nd Ski Race

This weekend was the final weekend for Copper Scooters in February. Lilly did the same course she did in January and took almost 20 seconds off! Her teacher for this session really challenged the kids and took them to tougher terrain. Lilly learned and improved a lot this year!

New Hairstyles

New styles for Holly and Lilly

Tucker Mountain at Copper

A snowcat ride and a half-hour hike will get you here:

The view from the bottom:

Snowmobiling the Black Hills

Pictures from my snowmobile trip to the Black Hills in South Dakota. My brother-in-law Russ invited me along and let me use his snowmobile. It was a great trip - scenic and fun riding the trails.

The gang: Russ, Reggie, Tyler, Brian, Marcy

Spearfish Canyon

Scenery at Roughlock Falls

Roughlock Falls

Russ overlooking Roughlock Falls

Holly's Birthday Weekend

This weekend we celebrated Holly's birthday by staying in Silverthorne. Beth, Geoff, June and Geoff's brother Ryan joined us Saturday evening.

The weekend got off to a good start with a 66 degree high temp in Denver on Friday. We drove up to the mountains Friday after Lilly got out of school. Holly made a good salmon dinner at the cabin and we still had time to swim/hot tub before bed.

Lilly in the pool

Holly got her birthday wish of having excellent weather for her mountain weekend. Saturday's high temps were close to 40 and the sun was bright all day. What a great day to ski.

Holly and I enjoying the sunshine

Lilly's January session of Scooters (ski school at Copper Mountain) wrapped up with the Scooter Olympics. All of the kiddos raced down a mini skicross course.

Lilly's First Ski Race

After a great day we headed back to the condo for a snack and some swimming with June Bug. Beth and Geoff took all of us out to dinner to celebrate and close out a near perfect day.

Sunday we went to Breckenridge to see the International Snow Sculpting Championships:

Budweiser, one of the sponsors

Greenman

Marco! (Marco Polo)

Lilly looking out a castle window

August 27th, stage 5 of the Quizno's Pro Challenge ends in Breckenridge

A diver

A little spooky

After the sculptures I skied at Frisco Nordic Center while Holly and Lilly found super sale deals at the Old Navy Outlet. The traffic filled drive home was broken up by a pizza stop at Mountain Buzz in Georgetown.

A great weekend. Happy Birthday Holly!

Sunrise over Copper Mountain


Copper Bowl


Smiles on the lift