I won!! I won!!

Occasions like this come around so rare, that I have to share!!  For New Years Eve we spent a relaxing evening of munching on wine and cheese, snacks, and playing Trival Pursuit.  This year's game went surprisingly fast and I actually won!  It was pretty awesome :) 

Looks like it's going to be a great year!!

Movie Night

Movie night is so much fun now since we have that cool new popcorn maker!  The popcorn is DELICIOUS!!  so yummy.....

Skiing at Boyne Mountain

After a slow start, we made to Boyne Mountain.  With it being a holiday week, it was busy at the rentals and they were running out of equipment.  We were sweating it!  Thankfully, they had what we needed for Sydney.  The lines weren't too bad and unlike yesterday the sun was out making it feel a bit warmer.

We got stuck in a few places and had the make the kids go down blue (Intermediate) runs.  They did pretty good - a bit slow which was expected, but hardly any complaining :)  They will be great skiers in no time.

Since the roads were so good, we decided to stay until 4:00 for our full day of skiing.  A great trip!!

Ski day at Nubs Nob

Day 2 of our after-Christmas ski trip. It's so nice to have the week off of work as the new year is beginning, not worrying too much about the house being cluttered with opened presents, and wrapping paper (still) and of course the decorations that we love so much, but end up wearing out their welcome after a month :) I'm always sad to see the decorations go, but there is something to be said about that feeling of great organization when they get packed away and a cleaning frenzy begins!

We decided to get full lifts for the kids instead of just sticking to the free beginner area.  That worked out good.  The kids also got to partake in our "bad junk food" menu for lunch - Little Debbies!!

When we were skiing at Nubs Nob today, these highlights occurred:

* Zachary no longer needs his edgie-wedgies!! yahoo!

* The kids skied their first blue runs - well, by mistake, but still, they did it!

* Alan ran into a kid while he was skiing backwards!
* Sydney's boot buckle broke off her boots and we needed to rent skis & boots for her :(

* Zachary ran into a tree! Luckily it was only his leg that hit it, but he still got his ski knocked off and he fell down :)

* I jumped off a chair lift while trying not to "land" on Zachary getting off the lift!

Finish it off with a late dinner at Lou's Pizza, meeting up with Dawn and her cousin, and it was a big day indeed! That must be why Alan fell asleep at 9:30 :)

Day 1 of Boyne Ski trip

We hit the road in the morning (made it out at 9:15, yahoo!) and was thrilled to find that the roads were clear and it was an easy 5 hour drive up north.  Even more enjoyable was that the kids were occupied with their new DS's so we didn't hear any complaining or fighting the whole trip!!  That was the best! :)

We went tubing over at Boyne Highlands.  It was a lot of fun.  This year they did not have a "fast" and "slow" side, but just one run.  Still, it was good and we were there for an hour before dinner.

Dinner was at the Mitchell St. Pub.  Good food, and hot nachos!  Who would have guessed that "spicy" on the menu description really meant spicy!!  (not me I guess.  haha!)

Artwork

Here are some random pieces of artwork that have been decorating our house for the holidays...

Checking out the Christmas loot!

We had a day full of checking out the new toys.  Sure, it still looks like our house exploded with all of the toys and boxes all over the place, but there's nothing like a few lazy days after Christmas :)