January 2017

 I set up my light and backdrop to practice. I'm really out of practice. I rarely have time to go shoot photos any more. Wouldn't change that though. Sure do love to take photos of my kids though!

 This is Bay's 13 year old picture. I love it.

 We didn't really have a theme for her birthday. Just happy polka dots!

 She wanted to do the puzzle room, so that's what we did. We ALMOST got out on time. We had ONE puzzle left to do.

 Craziness with friends.

 Breccan at hard work in 5th grade.

 The kids did a group ski deal...I think it was called Free Riders. It wasn't lessons, really, although there was an instructor there. The goal was to get the kids familiar with the mountain, so that they could ski Powderhorn without mom freaking out. They did some black runs, and they are pretty solid skiers now.

This was the first day of Free Riders. From then on, the kids had ski poles.

Skiing!

 One beautiful Monday off, I took the kids up skiing for lessons. They got lucky and were the only two in the group. They had a great time, and learned a lot. They are a solid Level III skier, according to Mo, the instructor. They learned to skate backwards, and they learned to ski between the instructors legs, by squatting way down.

 Then the following weekend we all went up skiing. We had a beautiful day. We just paid for the Easy Rider lift tickets, which just takes you on about three easy runs. Jery did VERY well, and I think that skiing finally clicked for him. He fell as he got off the lift a couple times, but after that he became very solid and had a great time.

We all skied too slowly apparently for Breccan because we rarely saw him, except him going up the lift as we skied down, or him going down as we took the lift up!

Ski Lesson Fun!

We took the kids skiing this last Wednesday. I pulled BayLea out of school early (which I felt a little guilty for...but hey, we're a family first!) and we headed up for lessons. They both took about 30 minutes before they both found their 'ski legs' but then they just flew through their lessons!






Mimi and Pa came up to watch too.























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