Spring Break

Well, summer has been in full swing for about three weeks now and I'm trying to get caught up on life, that seemed to stop while I was teaching. That means that I've been attempting to clean my house, organize the mounds of papers I had left at the end of the school year, take some classes to help me be a better teacher next year, finish photo albums and catch up on blog posts.

I've actually debated whether to just bag blogging altogether since it seems as though I have no time for it any more and I seriously doubt anyone reads them. But I really do like the help blogs give me for journaling and having a starting point for photo albums. So I'm still attempting to blog for the time being.

To catch way up, here is our trip to Utah over spring break. Since this was Preston's last spring break for a couple of years, I asked him what he wanted to do and there was little hesitation - snowboarding!

He and I drove up to Utah and skied/boarded one day at The Canyons, where I'd never been before. The snow was typical spring skiing snow, but not too bad yet.

Here we are on the gondola to the mountain.
Here's Preston anxiously waiting for him mother to take the picture, so we can get on the slopes. I thought the snow park was the most fun part of The Canyons and I made Preston go down it time and time again. I did go off some fairly high jumps (at least for me) and did do a couple of rails. Preston was braver that I and tried some really big jumps and did great. But we did see some amazing jumps that people did on the huge jumps and were in awe. That will never be me - too old!

Here we are at The Canyons.

Raquel and Millie flew in that night and we all crashed my mom's house for the week. My mom is the BEST hostess and had a wonderful dinner prepared for us each night we were there.

The next day we headed to Snowbird, can you tell the difference? Look at the size of the mountains. The Canyons is more on high hills, whereas, Snowbird is on MOUNTAINS.

It had snowed over night so there was a couple of inches of new snow on top of ice - typical spring skiing conditions. It was super windy and when we would get to the top, the fresh snow would sting our faces like sand in a dust storm. Preston loved Snowbird and got much better at black diamond runs and moguls - another thing I'm too old for.

The following day Raquel went with Preston snowboarding and my mom and I got to babysit. Raquel gave us very explicit instructions as to what we were to do to take care of Millie, but we didn't do a very good job of following them. Millie survived though and we had a wonderful time with her!

She sat in her bumbo chair and watched us cook and grade papers all day. I think she loved it! We also had to have a photo shoot of four generations of girls. I didn't get any pictures on my camera and the ones on Raquel's didn't turn out too well. But this one of Millie did!

Thanks mom for letting us all camp at your house for a week and providing all the wonderful food you did! Your the best!