Skiing 2012 - Tubing

Yesterday we went Tubing.  This was a first for all of us.  Allison took a while to warm up to it, but she finally tried it out and loved it!!

This is the first run (John, Jason, & Sophie).  I am standing about halfway down the run.

 Resting before the trek back to the house.

The After-Tubing Celebration...Sophie made her famous "I don't knows" (potato chips and marshmallows) for everyone to snack on.

One last day of skiing and then we're headed home!

Skiing 2012 - Skiing/Playing

Here are the Locusts.  If you saw them at mealtime, snack time, or any kind of fun time, you would know exactly what we meant.  We found them in clumps like this several times, but instead of talking to each other, they would be Pictochatting on their DSs.

Sophie in her ski school.  She has on the pink pants and white/print ski coat.  I took this picture from our balcony (along with most of the rest of the pics).

Starting to build a snow man.

Not all of our KIDS are under the age of 10.

After a day of skiing...that's Sophie and Mom coming down the hill toward the house.

Our room is on the fourth floor.  After a long day of skiing, they couldn't quite make it all the way up!

Skiing 2012

OK, these are not very good pictures, but they prove we are here.  The smaller pics are of John and the kids on the chair in front of me.  I didn't get any pics of us actually skiing because this is my first time to ski since Sophie was a baby....I was just trying to not fall.

Allison was in ski school today that is why she is not in any of the pictures.  Her instructor said that she did very well, BUT she has declared herself DONE for now stating, "I will try again next year!"

Skating thru the holiday weekend...

We started out Thanksgiving Day by heading out to the Dr Pepper Stars Center in McKinney for a little ice skating.  Thought maybe we could work off the calories before we ate them.   We were very excited to have Aunt Rhonda join us! 

Then today Jason was invited to a friend's birthday party at a roller rink, so we all joined him for the fun....

Happy Halloween

Sophie drew this sketch to get in the mood. I can almost taste the candy already.

Happy Halloween!

Rock, paper, scissors

I played a few games of the classic rock, paper, scissors with all three kids today. They were playing at dinner (Lite Wok) so I joined in. I throw rock pretty regularly and let's just say that wouldn't win many games tonight.

Sophie had the widest range throwing down everything from acid to germs to antiseptic to sun.

Jason was true to his character throwing a lot of light sabers along with some lava.

My new favorite is Allison's most often used - ear wax. Rock, paper, ...... ear wax! Now that's hard to beat.

Jason Art

Jason decided to stop playing on the computer this afternoon and began to draw some pictures. First he drew this volcano for us.

Then he drew this sketch showing a mountain as night was falling. I noticed that my boy is very complete in his usage of the paper.


This night sky with stars and the moon made me break into song... "The stars at night, are big and bright. Deep in the heart of Texas"