Happy Holidays!!

Happy Holidays to Everyone!!

Tracy & Frisco did make it out of Denver despite the storm of 2006. We jumped in the car Wednesday morning and took an alternate route. After a tense drive on the snowy & windy roads in CO, we made it into Nebraska and out of the snow and into the rain for the rest of our trip. We arrived in VA late Thursday night...in one piece.

Friday we hung out at Tracy's Parent's house and welcomed her Uncle Mike, Aunt Jeanne & cousins Alli & Davis to town from KY. Saturday we drove to Roanoke to Stan's mom's house. Sat night was spent playing board games with Stan's Aunt Donnie, Aunt Linda, Stan's mom & cousins Blair & Chad, in from Pittsburgh. Sunday, Stan's sister Lisa, Dave, and our nieces Ashlynne & Morganne arrived. Sun night, Linda & Marvin hosted Christmas Eve dinner. Christmas morning was spent opening presents, but mostly watching Ashlynne & Morganne opening & playing with their toys.

We then headed back to NOVA to spend Christmas dinner with Tracy's fam. So lots of gifts and food later, Christmas was a success. Lots of visiting and eating and gifts and eating...did I mention eating??

We're off to Hotlanta on Friday for the bowl game. Go Hokies!!

Happy New Year to Everyone!

Tracy & Blair showing off their new slippers.

Aunt Tracy reading to Morganne & Uncle Stan reading to Ashlynne.

Family Portrait: Dave, Ashlynne, Lisa, Morganne

G Daddy T watching TV with Lily

Dad got us trendy cowgirl hats for xmas...yeehaw!

Davis trying on some of Lily's dress up clothes...interesting.

Frisco playing...

More playing...

Shrow the Pow

This was a weekend of riding! Stan arrived in Dillon on Thursday night for a long weekend. Friday we went with Mark & Jeff to Beaver Creek Ski Resort for some major POWDER! We were pleasantly surprised to find no one on the mountain and tons of powder to keep us entertained. There were 2 runs where we didn't see a sole the entire way down. The powder was up to our knees. Incredible day! Friday night we were exhausted, but made it into Breck for dinner at Quandary Grill with Tiff, Erica, JB & Carl.

Saturday we met Erica and spent the morning at Copper Mountain. They opened the Alpine lift around 11:00 so we got a couple really nice powder runs. So much powder that Tracy got stuck, waist deep, in a hole, had to take her board off and crawl to a more packed trail in order to get started again. Good times!! Saturday night we drove over to Loveland for a "Season Opening Social." Unfortunately it was pretty lame. Later, we accompanied Mark to Keystone for the final hours of "36 hours of Keystone" celebrated with fireworks and happy hour at Kickapoo.

Sunday we decorated the house for Christmas. Stan put the outdoor lights up, while Tracy put the indoor decorations up. No tree this year, since we'll be in VA for 2-3 weeks, however our house is definitely festive. After decorating, we met up with Erica again and headed to ABasin for a few runs.

Monday was a day to rest the legs...sort of. We did get in 4 games of racquetball...Stan 3, Tracy 1; then hit up Target for a few more Xmas decorations.

Not too many pix, we'll get better as the season progresses.

The cloudiness in the background is steam coming from Lake Dillon.

Overlooking Dillon after the big storm last week.

"How do I look?"

Showing off our racquetball glasses.