Rip, Ride and Shred

This last Saturday the boys entered a ski/snowboard competition.

I actually got away for a few hours to go cheer them on.

It was so much fun.

I loved every minute of it.

These pictures are all out of order but here they are....

Luke and his boys.

Very proud.

The boys after the competiton.

Kyron took 1st place.

He got a medal, poles and a beanie.

Kason took 2nd place.

He won a medal, new goggles and 3 beanies.

They got two runs each.

We could only see the bottom half of the course.

They did some pretty cool tricks and it was a blast to watch.

We are so proud of you boys!

Skiing

This time of year is so much fun for our kids.

They love going to Sunrise.

(good thing it's free)

Koop is our little skier!

He LOVES it!
He can't wait for Saturday's to roll around.
When he is skiing he doesn't ever want to stop, not even for lunch.
He can go all the way to the top.
He says, "I have twintwips (twin tips) and I can ski backwards."
He is constantly practicing his 360 off my couch just like "his boys" do.
I think he is so cute!

Kyron gets to go skiing every Monday with the school, plus Saturday's with Luke.
Last week he got braces.
Talk about a dent in the bank account!
He has been getting the expected name calling, by us!
Brace face, train tracks, metal mouth...you name it.
Kooper is the one who thinks it is so funny to call him brace face.
I doubt if I will ever get a picture of him with his teeth showing.
I think Kason may be our only one who won't have to get braces!
His teeth are perfect!
I hope they stay that way!
I think that Kyron and Kason look more like brothers now than they ever have.
It is totally the hair.
Kyron is giving longer hair a try.


Kyron and Kason have both been trying to master the 360 while skiing.
Kyron said he did a 540 this last Monday but didn't land it.
It is so fun to watch.
Thank goodness for video cameras!
I make Luke take my bloggie every time so that I can watch them all ski when they get home.
Maybe next year will be Kali's turn to learn and then we can all go.
I don't have a picture of Kenz but she is awesome!
She can totally hang, although she would love a girl to go with her.
She has been patiently waiting for Kooper to be able to go with her.
So now that he can go to the top she is happy!
She loves to go with Luke.
She is even starting to catch a little bit of air on some of the jumps.
She is very careful though and isn't a big risk taker.
She is perfectly fine just taking her time and watching everyone else do the crazy tricks.

Wow!

It took me almost a week to get this "washable" marker off her cute little face.

This girl kills me!

Memories

My Mom came across this picture the other day.

It's me and my older brother Nate.

If I would have been looking at the camera you would have seen my 5 chins!

Nate has twin boys and I think he looks just like Trex.

Wow....that was a LONG time ago!

Letter to Santa

A few weeks ago I mentioned to Koop that he needed to write a letter to Santa.

So a few minutes later he came back with this.

His letter (or number) to Santa.
He makes my day, EVERYDAY!

Family pictures 2010

Here's some of our family pictures from this year.

I ALWAYS love to get pictures of my kids and this year was no exception.

I had been preparing them for months that we would be driving

3 hours this year for our pictures.

Only Kyron really complained and even he wasn't too bad.

Even Luke didn't complain.

He knows that pictures are so super important to me and so he just deals.

He is amazing like that.

Anyway we are driving along and from out of nowhere a turkey hits my car!

I say the turkey hit us and not the other way around because it DESTROYED my car!

We didn't even know what hit us at first.

So after driving 3 hours we stopped at a gas station to go

to the bathroom to check out the damage.

It broke my windshield, bumper, fender, and headlight and the piece under me light.

The kids loved all the blood, guts and feathers everywhere. Gross!

I was more focused on getting Kali's hair, after riding in the car for 3 hours with bedhead, fixed!

I plugged in my curling iron in the bathroom!

I got quiet a few strange looks for that.

Oh well, she was going to have cute hair for these pictures!

So my picture trip ended up costing us our $500 deductible.

I was pretty bummed about that part.

Stupid turkey!

The kids all cooperated so perfectly!

Even the boys who are too cool for school were awesome!

I think Koop was a little car sick.

It took him awhile before he smiled.

He said his tummy hurt.

Kali, of course was hard.

She thought running around was a lot more fun!

She was all smiles just on the run!

Kenzi of course loved it!

She is so quiet you almost forget she is around.

She is just too good!

I was more excited to Wendy than anything.

She is one of my very best friends and I miss her daily.

She always takes the best pictures and I love them!

Halloween

Kali went from a carebear to a poodle and then finally decide at the

LAST MINUTE

that she wanted to be a punk rocker just like Kenzi!

Her outfit matches her attitude perfectly!

She sure was cute!

Kooper changed from a bat to spider-man at the last minute too!

I thought he was the perfect spider-man.

You can't see one inch of his skin but the way he walked around in it

without saying a word was so stinkin' cute!

Kyron got invited to a Halloween party and DID NOT want to go (RUDE)!

He didn't really want to go trick-or-treating or anything.

I guess he is feeling his age.

I don't know.

Anyway,

We told him he had to go stack wood if he wasn't going to go.

So he said, "fine, I don't care. I'll stack wood."

After about 45 min of stacking wood he came in and put a mask on and

said, "fine, I'll go!"

So he went and of course he had a total blast.

He didn't stay for the whole thing but just long enough to be supportive.

So here he is in the exact same mask as last year.

Kason was just fine not going also but didn't say a whole lot.

He put the SAME mask on as last year too!

He was happy to help the little kids though.

We had a good day!

The little kids LOVED it!

So with Halloween out of the way, it's almost time for Thanksgiving.

Then it will be Christmas before we know it!