A Weekend of Sculptures and Painting

Not too exciting of a weekend. Stan met up with some friends Saturday morning and hit Breckenridge for some fresh snow, while Tracy and Frisco met up with Erica and Sage for a 2 hour hike. Tracy and Erica then headed into Breck to check out the snow/ice sculptures. People from all over come to Breck in January for this week long event. They start with a big block of snow and have a week to hand chisel (no electric tools) the block into something exciting. I've add pix of my 2 favorite. Afterwards, we met up with Stan, Geoff, David, Steve and Steve's brother in town from Iowa, Mark and Amy for some dinner and foosball in Breck.

Sunday we stayed indoors. Stan started painting BW's room. He finished the green (including the bathroom) and will do the light tan/sandy brown next weekend. The crib and dresser won't be delivered until the end of March, so we have plenty of time!

Monday, Stan went to Keystone for a couple hours in the morning, while Tracy ran errands. Then we took Frisco for a stroll to Lake Dillon. Then Stan was off to the airport.

Erica, Sage and Frisco taking a break

Stan making lattes


Tracy is 28 weeks this past Sunday...(7 months in the realistic 10 month)

The green in the baby's room. You can see the brown sampling on the wall.

To give you a better idea of where the baby's room will be...directly at the top of the stairs.

Snow Bound

We've been back home in Colorado for a week now and the snow just kept coming last week.

Stan got to ride Abasin's new Montezuma bowl on Friday and then Vail all day Saturday, after Vail called in 11" of new snow. He decided to rest his legs on Sunday, so instead we all went on a snowshoe. Monday he was back out on the slopes at Keystone before heading to the airport.

Tracy's big news is a new job. Still doing real estate, but also decided to hit the resorts and work at the Keystone ski/ride school, registering kids on Wed and Thurs. Tomorrow is the first day!

Other news...we finally bought a crib for Baby Ward! So I guess there is no turning back now:) Tracy is 26 weeks (6 1/2 months) and still due April 20th. The belly is definitely growing, but otherwise feeling great! Thanks to big sister/soon-to-be-Aunt Marcy for all her maternity clothes and to soon-to-be-cousin Lily for all her hand me down clothes.

Enjoy the pix...

Tracy's belly at exactly 6 months (24 weeks).

a fun snowy picture from this past week.

we left the jeep outside while we had rentors over the holidasy...this is how much snow we got...the jeep was buried. we had our friend plow it out with his truck...very exciting!

Stan showing off his first snowshoe jaunt in Wildernest on Sunday.

It's not really snowing this hard...a tree just shook all over Stan while taking a pix...hehe.

Baby Girl Ward

BTW...the latest news is that we are expecting a GIRL April 20th.

Orange Bowl...Boo

We're back in Colorado. Arrived today! Stan drove back with me and Frisco...then we dropped him off at the airport. We'll see him on Thursday.

Before heading back to CO, we did make it down to Miami for the Orange Bowl, VT vs Kansas. The weather was freezing and the game was a bummer, Hokies lost. But we had fun with fellow Coloridians...Ken, Stacy and Jeff, Niemo from VA, and Sandy from Sarasota.