Park City Trip!

 Birthday hug from my little sis. Tallie.  (31!!)

 Here I am on my 31st birthday!

Cordelle got invited to go up to Park City for a retreat from Safeco insurance now that he is over personal lines marketing for The Leavitt Group.  And since Safeco is a personal lines only insurance carrier, somehow Cordelle got to be in on the schmoose mobile where they pretty much wine and dine their highest sellers.  (A perk without the work).

 Here were the heated pools that we never did get into (what were we thinking?) They just looked cool with all the steam coming off since it was freezing outside!

 Deer Valley Resort

  Even in February it still looks like Christmas.

 One night, we got bored and didn't want to hang out with all the other high sellers so we went and found Liberty Mutual was also having a big bash in another part of the hotel, only they had a rockin 80's band and this whole "Fire and Ice" theme.  So we took it upon ourselves to take some pics with all their props.

 ....and lick their ice sculptures....

 ...and then the next day we went to the Olympic Park and got to go down the Olympic BOBSLEDS!!

 I'm in the light blue in the middle.

 AHH!!

 This was fast. Super fast. I can't remember how fast but I remember not being able to move my head because of the G-Force impact was a 2 or 3? (I dont remember what that means or if it was really a 2 or 3).  It was ridiculous.  Kind of made me loopy.  Which is why Cordelle decided not to do it, which was a really good idea for him.

 Olympic Bobsled track.

 K.  This was just a crazy post bobsled selfie, but my favorite part about this pic is the creeper in between us.  That face says so much! 

 More pics of the resort and our room (which we found out is a handicapped room...we just thought we were living the high life with an enormous bathroom.)

 Ski day.  So we had the opportunity to get a back massage or to ski/snowboard.  So we were like what the heck?  We'll ski.  I have never skiied before. And so I thought, "I'm fairly athletic, I'll catch on."  Well let's just say, this was one of the worst days of my life.  I sucked at skiing!  I just could not catch on.  Cordelle tried and tried to teach me how to stop and slow down and it was not working.  After taking half a day to get down a easy level slope, I decided I was through.  But after lunch and a couple of you tube video's later, I discovered that after all this time I was not pushing out hard and wide enough to slow or stop myself and that's why I was crashing so hard. But by then, my muscles were shot and I couldn't move but alas, I tried again....on the bunny hill.  And finally did it 4 times without crashing!!!  It was a huge feat to a miserable day. Will I ever go again? I really don't know.   I should have taken lessons first or A lesson....no, I should have got that massage.

 ...or I should have just sat by their enormous fire all day and read a book.  Now that's my kind of vacation.

 And then this is random but....

....in memory of all the olympic jazz I made this guy! And sent him to a friend in the mail.  Isn't he great!  He turned out perfectly! 

half acre. foot of snow. what to do?

 Pink gloves mom.  Really?

 So one day I was feeling creative and I got this idea for a new game.  We took our freshly fallen snow in the back yard and created pathways.  Some connected. Some were dead ends. Then I took 6-8 items like balls, shovels, and other toys and placed them around the maze.  Then we all started at the beginning and I gave the kids a 10 second head start to collect as many of the items and bring them back to the start without getting caught by me and put in jail for 10 seconds, but they had to stay on the paths that we made.  They could jump tracks if they could make it but I could not jump from path to path.  It was actually a lot of fun for all of us and having the kids work together to distract me made it actually quite challenging to catch them.  Great game for a cold afternoon!

January. The. Most. Boring. Month. Ever. :)

 What good is a scrapbook without a naked bath photo!

 Cordelle's been trying to recreate his own protein shake (FROM SCRATCH) in the mornings.  It tastes....not great.  But its cheaper than shakeology. :)

 

 

 K.  These pictures have a funny story to them.  Cordelle and I were on a date and we had to run in to the store and get milk, so as we were walking down the isle, I tell him, "lets race, first one to the milk wins."  At that very minute I gave him a little shove to throw him off balance, which actually ended up throwing him a lot off balance knocking him straight into these jars of Chocolate sauce which fell back and got jostled but luckily did not fall on the floor and shatter.  I had no idea the scene I caused because after the shove I bolted, so he took pictures of my menacing act of violence.

 A little wrestling.

K.  We do own a TV and a couch, but I found these two watching a show on my tiny kindle (on the counter in the kitchen) sitting on the floor as content as could be. 

Cold weather during Christmas break leaves us finding things to do indoors....like the Children's museum

Oh December.....

 Christmas lights are up.  I miss the really bright ones around the top of the house....but apparently 50 year old lights are considered a fire hazard.  (still used them on the porch though!)

 Don't really remember why this pic was taken.  But he was happy and eating. What better of a combo?

 "Sneezin's Greetings" - Our neighbor gift was a box of tissues.  We are cheap.

 So one day BEFORE it snowed Cordelle went out to get the mail and had a key to open the bigger package drop off box.  Well he got distracted and vaguely remembered hearing a something drop.  It then snowed A LOT the next few days.  And after not receiving a package we were expecting he started to remember that something had dropped out of the mail box and he wondered if it was the key to the package box.  So I loaded Collin up on a sled and we went and dug in ice and snow for a good 10 minutes, but we found the key....that was totally rusting. But it still worked on the big package box, so we were able to get our package!  I felt like a champion for finding it!  Cordelle couldn't believe it had actually been dropped and that I literally found the needle in the haystack.  :)

Frozen blueberries.  New.  Favorite.  Food. (Wanna guess how badly blueberries stain everything?)

More frozen blueberries!!

"Friend" Christmas party with the Christians

 Johnny Christian and Collin

I really don't know what is going on here, but they have so much fun together all the time so I'm sure it was worthy of getting out my camera.

 Nothing like Christmas break to help organize Dad's extra Dittobug announcements!

Sometimes sleep has to come first.

December's calendar of events!