A few updates - Jan 18, 2013

Hello friends and family who like to keep up-to-date on what we are up to.

Let's go back to last weekend. We left Thursday morning for Whitefish, Montana for a ski/snowboard vacation for a few days with friends Kal and Jessica, and Darryl and Annette and Keaston. We drove in a snowstorm most of the way which was a little stressful at times but we were thankful that there wasn't much traffic to contend with. Hanna did pretty good on the 5 or so hour trip. We made it there around supper time...enough time to drop our stuff off and go out for supper in the town.

 Here's our little group. Keaston looks happy to be here.

 It was a quaint little restaurant.

We were really impressed with the food. Smoked meats (pork) was their speciality. I recommend this place if you are ever in Whitefish. We finished off our Thursday night by doing a big grocery shop for the weekend as we ate most meals at the condo. What an economical way to do a holiday. Especially since American prices are cheaper than Canada's.

We had a great snowboarding day on Friday. I snowboarded with the boys which was pretty good. I was pretty sore by the end of the day. My legs were giving out on me.

Here are the guys on the hill. Shawn is on the left with the red backpack, Darryl in the middle and Kalvin on the right.

Annette kindly watched Hanna so that I could get some snowboarding in, so on Saturday, I decided to stick to the condo with her and spend some time with the kids. It was a lovely day...lots of snow falling with sunny breaks in between. This is the view from the deck off the living room. It looks down on a parking lot. Just down from that was the main lodge. Perfect location.

 We loved the accommodation. It was spacious and we all had our own space. It was well furnished and was beautifully decorated.

Well, that's actually all the pictures I took. The rest are in the form of video which are wittingly narrated by moi! I am trying to load them and format them (pain!).

 One more thing for those who didn't hear...Hanna took her first steps while we were down there. I have it on video and it was very exciting for us. She had been doing pretty good at standing on her own before we left and was getting braver so it was no surprise. So little by little, she's getting there.

On a side note...I am back into the swing of things at work. I'm as busy as ever with all my students crammed into my morning. But I'm enjoying it and I think/hope they are too. I have wonderful friends were are available to help out with childcare this week as it was bit of a unique week. Thanks Jess and Annette! You're the best. I'm so lucky to have friends like these girls.

Over and out.