Little Winnie

Pooh loves to chew on rawhides, but Winnie not so much. Our vet encourages us to get her to chew on things because she has bad teeth. We've tried to find different shapes, sizes and flavors, but still, she just licks them, then walks away (and sneaky Pooh tries to steal them!). Lately, she's starting to carry them around. One night last week, she wouldn't put it down and carried it along on our walk. It looked pretty funny. Here she is last night carrying around a beef flavored "chewy." Pooh's in the background going to town on his rawhide.
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Girls Day Out

It was a pretty low-key weekend at our house. Paul was trying to get over the flu, so we didn’t do a whole lot. On Friday night, we watched Rendition – it was a pretty good movie. I thought the ending lacked a litle bit, but overall, it was good.

My friend Lisa, her little girl Lindsey and I went skiing on Saturday. It is always fun to go with them and to see things through the eyes of a 4-year-old. She is not afraid at all and just cruises down blue square and black diamond runs like they are nothing. I really, really wish I would’ve gotten into skiing when I was younger so that I could be more like that. As you get older, you tend to be more cautious of everyone around you and what they are doing. When you are 4, you assume they’ll look out for you - and for the most part, they do.

Follow the Leader

Making S's

Taking a Snack Break

It's Lunchtime!

Lisa is working on loading and unloading the lifts with Lindsey. She did SO WELL on Saturday! Early in the season, Lisa and I saw a little boy fall from the chair lift and break 2 vertebrae in his back. It’s always in the back of your mind that you can fall, but when you actually see it, it makes it more real. The worst part was that the little boy's dad was in the chalet and he was out skiing alone. He was only about 5 or 6! So, Lisa and Joe have been working really hard with her and on Saturday it seemed like it finally clicked. She has it down now!

Sunday, Paul and I went to church and then just did the fun stuff – laundry, grocery shopping, etc. We are so exciting!

Weekend Fun!

Paul and I took a half day on Friday and headed to Welch Village for his work ski/snowboarding party. It was the first time that we had skied at night, so it was interesting. We both thought it was difficult to ski at dusk because the depth perception is so different without shadows. Once the sun went down and the lights went on, we had a great time. I think about 20-some people were there from his work. I tried to get a good shot of us grilling out, but this is the best I got. Out of that group, I was one of the only women so I didn't want to look like too much of a dork and keep taking pictures! If it had been my coworkers, you'd better believe that there would be a posed picture of everyone!

At about 9:30, we headed to Treasure Island to check into our room. OH MY GOSH! I think every single smoker within a 125 mile radius now hangs out at the casino! We had to walk through the casino to get to the hotel check out and just in those few minutes, our eyes were burning, our clothes and hair absorbed a ton of smoke and we could hardly breathe. Same on the way back to our car the next morning. UGH! We won't be going there again!

Saturday night, we had a really fun game night with Jackie, John and Hannah.

When we got home, this is what we found.....two very snoozy pups! It's obviously hard work sleeping overnight at Grandma and Grandpa's house - all that snuggling and getting spoiled! But they took one for the team and managed to survive. :0)