Sunday Morning Golf

No it's not your typical golf, but disc golf is big up here and with the weather warming up and snow melting off we decided to go out and practice up for spring. My own presonal opinion is that if your playing disc golf in the snow, then it should be considered an extreme sport.

Great Igloo Constuction

We started the task of building an igloo for the boys Saturday afternoon and a few hours later the finished product was quite impressive. We are thinking about renting it out if any one is interested.

After all of that hard work, we finished off the night with some homemade pizza. I must say we are getting pretty good.

Early Birthday Celebration

This past Friday, Joseph, Jim, Becky, and the boys came up and we had an early birthday celebration, which lasted all weekend. We started off on Friday night with some sushi with Sunny and Jacob as well and went back to the house for some awesome cake. It was a pretty deluxe celebration with a magician and all...Jacob pulled out some magic tricks for the boys, but we all got a kick out of them.

Me and My Snowbunny

Down the Slopes

Having no school on Friday and a great snow this past Sunday, we decided to hit up Snowbowl. Following a harsh fist time snowboarding experience for Joy, I decided to take her under my wing (hahaha). However, after only a ten minute lesson she was cruising down the mountain like a champ. I had the oppportunity to go out a few times before with Jacob, so I had a few little tricks to impress Joy with.

After an awesome morning of boarding, Joy was calling for a black diamond run, but the top lift was closed due to the wind. I guess the jumps and 360s will have to wait until next time =). Lets just say it's a great day when you can get off of the chairlift without falling.

Flagstaff Sunrise

Frozen North

Yesterday alone, we got approximately 15 inches and they're calling for an additional 5 today. Here are a few pictures from this morning and to put the one in perspective, I set the snow shovel next to the pile. Needless to say, the snow shovel is broken in.

Snowday

I can honestly say that I cant remember the last snowday I had as a kid, but today they have canceled all classes, because of the nasty weather we have gotten. NAU has a motto similar to the Post Office, it doesn't matter what the weather is like, classes will be in session. That's some insight on how the weather is...NAU cancelled classes.
As a kid, I remember playing in the snow and playing all day on snowdays...Today will consist of studying, studying, and more studying.

Early Birthday Gift

What can I say, I've been bitten by the snowboarding bug...I haven't quite decided to drop out of school to pursue this passion yet, but for an early birthday present Joy bought me this awesome new snowboard and bindings. It turned out that the new bindings looked better on my other board, so I decided to post pictures of all of the boards.

Breaking in the Snowboards

Sunny, Joy, Me, and Jacob
Me, Jacob, and Joseph


I took this picture from a distance, but if you look into the trees you can see Joseph ending our day with an impressive jump. I think I'll wait until atleast my second time snowboarding before I try it.

This past Friday, we headed up to Snowbowl Ski Resort to break in our new snowboards and more importantly to try our hand at snowboarding for the first time. We started the morning off on a good foot as ironically our lift ticket stamp for the day read OJOY. It was a great day and I am itching to get back onto the slopes already.

New Year's Eve

New York has the ball drop and Dick Clark...

Vegas has the million dollar fireworks show...

and Flagstaff has the great pine cone drop!

We brought in the New Year with the great pine cone drop in downtown Flag. We all braved the cold and yes it was cold (18 degrees with a wind chill of 0 degrees), but it was a great time. Needless to say, we came back to the house soon after the midnight and huddled around the space heater.

Christmas Celebration (Third and Final)

Joy wearing the vest I had gotten her. The theme this Christmas at our house.....staying warm.
Joy bought me a bipod for my hunting rifle and it wasn't until after we had loaded the pictures onto the computer that we found the humor in this picture...
The way in which I had positioned the gun, it really appears as though I am waiting for Santa to come down the chimney. For any of you that didn't get what you had wanted for Christmas this year, I promise you it isn't because I held up Santa.
I had gotten a creme brulee set from Mom and Dad (during celebration #1) and we decided to try our hand at making it on Christmas day. For our first go around, I thought they looked awesome. The only downfall to the kit that I have found so far is that I have become semi-obsessed with torching every meal that Joy and I eat. If Joy wants some cheese on her potato, I'll pull out the torch and melt it for her. Personally I think that's just thoughtful.

By this time, you are probably thinking to yourself, are they serious, another Christmas celebration? To answer this question, yes this was our third celebration, but this is the third and final.

On Christmas day, Joy and I had our own Christmas and just had an awesome day of doing nothing but hanging out, cooking, more importantly eating, and watching movies. It seems that I have been doing a lot of the third (eating) over the past few weeks but with the pep talk from Peyton Manning (see the post below), no worries because I just bought myself a few bigger shirts.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the new year.