First Snow!!

Crystal Mountain 11/13/09

I can't even begin to explain to you how excited I am that we already have snow in the mountains!!! I sure hope this means we're going to have a good snow season. I can't even remember a time in my life where the Washington resorts were open BEFORE Thanksgiving. Crystal Mountain opened on November 11th this year but because of work, I had to wait till Friday the 13th to get up there. It felt so good to get on the snow again!

Here' s me on the chairlift. I was a little excited.

The day was GREAT. Aaron, Brent, Breanna, Alex and I all piled into Aaron's company vehicle and headed up the mountain. We got there right when they opened. It snowed just about all day long, keeping the snow nice and soft. There was hardly anybody up there so we had no lines to wait in. We snowboarded all day long and it still wasn't quite enough. I can't wait to get back up there.

Action shot

Breanna about to go for a run.

All bundled up ready to head down the mountain. Aaron sitting in the background.

Aaron sticking his tongue out at me for taking his picture.

It's really quite sad.....Aaron brought his fancy waterproof/shockproof camera and took tons of pictures and videos of us all snowboarding. At the end of the day, something went wrong with his memory card and now he can't retrieve ANY of the data off of it. He sent it in to a data recovery place in Colorado, but they wanted $350+ to fix it. So he's gonna try some nerd tricks of his to see if he can retrieve anything from it. If it works, I'll post them. HOPEFULLY he can get them because there was some good stuff on there!!

Halloween 2009

This Halloween we didn't intend on having any sort of "party." But as the day approached, it just sort of happened and it turned out to be a lot of fun.

For the past week and a half, Jaime and I were able to have a good friend of ours (also named Jaime) stay with us while she was visiting from Virginia. On Halloween, we all decided it'd be fun to have a little "shin dig" at the house so we scrambled to get decorations up and food/snacks, music, movies and costumes together. And it was successful! I didn't have much to work with for a costume so I wore one of my old softball jerseys from college. Jaime (boy) was able to squeeze into a pair of my khaki scrubs and throw on a old bathrobe and pull of a good Obi wan Kenobi. Jaime (girl) pulled off the ULTIMATE punk rocker chick costume! I still don't quite understand how she got her hair to stick straight up and stay like that all night. It's like 2 feet high!

Obi wan Kenobi

Andra threw together a pretty cool "snow bunny" costume. (nice scarf)

It was fun night! Thanks to all those who came on short notice!

I wish I would've taken more pictures.

Flashback Photos

I found an old picture of Andra and I on Halloween 1990 - 1992 (not sure on exact date).

Andra is the bunny and I'm the cat. Oh, and I just realized Andra was a bunny this year too.

This is a picture taken in the fall probably around 1986?? We look about 2 years old right?

In this picture, we were playing with wolf spiders that had nested in the woodpile.

Andra in purple, me in pink.