Winter Fun

With 8 straight days of skiing under his belt, Andy decided to take the day off from the slopes. Instead, we went for a nice, long snowshoe hike. It was a nice day--partly cloudy with temps in the upper 20's.



One of Cooper's favorite things to do is try to find snowballs we throw at the snow. Of course, he never finds them, but it sure is cute to watch his head get buried in the snow.



This is called a snow wheel. It's the result of snow rolling down the side of a hill. We thought they were pretty neat.

Another Day on the Slopes

There's nothing better than waking up, drinking a nice, hot cup of coffee, and then hitting the powder for a few hours. Ahhh...


Riding the chair lift up...


There's something about our older camera that won't let me rotate the photos. :(


Would it be appropriate to say "knee high by the 4th of January?"

The Beginning of Winter Break

With about 8 inches of fresh powder today, it was the perfect time to play outdoors. We skied for about 3 hours this morning. Oh boy, was it ever windy at the top! Great snow, though. Then we took a before dinner snowshoe trek. Our plan is to ski another few hours tomorrow morning before making our way down to SLC for the beginning of our holiday festivities. Ahhh...we love living 2 minutes from the ski resort!

Making our way to the trail


With the blowing snow, Andy insisted on wearing his ski goggles.


On Sunday night, we got together with some friends for a Christmas potluck dinner. Great fun!

Sloan, lighting all of the little candles


Right before we stuffed our faces with turkey, stuffing, casserole, veggie pizza, salad, rolls, and mudpie

Our Little Christmas Tree

We got our Christmas tree over the weekend. With the lack of space in our living room, we had to opt for a smaller-than-usual tree. It's been very nice down here...too nice, in fact. We need more snow so the resorts can open up more runs.

McPolin Staff Party

Last night, we went to our first McPolin Christmas Party. It was held at Nacho Mama's, which is owned by one of our staff members at school. It was great! It's so fun to see people outside of the working environment. Drinks were ordered, shots were taken, and rapping, yes rapping, occurred. What a blast!


That's Cortney on the left, our speech pathologist, rapping with our school psychologist. Too funny!


That's my friend, Jodi, in the background.



Joanna and Jodi both teach 1st grade.


Tory (on the left) teaches 1st grade and Tina is another 2nd grade teacher. She had just gotten done dancing and this was her impression of CPR. I think those margaritas had kicked in by then.