Skiing and Snowboarding

Thank goodness for helmets! Dallin and Eliza have informed us that they want to be in the Olympics. I explained to them what kind of work goes into that dream. Dallin responded with, "That's fine, you just need to get me up to the mountain before and after school everyday." Eliza's answer was, "Well, I'm already the fastest girl, probably faster than that girl in the Olympics right now."(Lindsey Vonn) So they are on there way to living out their dream. They went 3 times last week and of course loved every minute of it. Almost, Dallin had a pretty nasty crash after a series of jumps. It's a series of 4 jumps, he landed the first 3 and on the last one came in with a little more speed, and a whole bunch more air than anticipated. He came down on the back of his board and slammed his head backwards. Like I said, thank goodness for helmets, he had a heck of a head ache that night but ready to get back up there on Wednesday.

Steve and Eliza on the lift. Kind of bummed I have no skiing pictures of Eliza this time. Steve had the camera, and he and Dallin spent most of the day over in the snowboarding park practicing their jumps. Eliza and I spent our time working on her turns and keeping her skis parallel on her turns. She does really well over on the greens and blues. however, they have started doing some of the blacks and she lets some of the really steep parts get in her head. She freezes up a little, so we spent the second half of the day rebuilding her confidence on the blue runs.


Spencer cracking up! We are so lucking to have such a great family watch Spencer for us when we go skiing. I love them to death, and they love Spencer.