Category: snowboarding
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Snow Surprise Saves our Season
Three. That’s the pathetically low count of times we were able to go snowboarding this past year. We’ve been spoiled enough to average 5-7 times a week for the past few years so it’s been a bit rough this year. With the move and our travels and such, we just haven’t had time this year.…
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Sun, Sons and Snowboarding
After Friday night’s snow who would guess that we would be sipping coffee on the deck Saturday morning? Even better, we were sunbathing by the afternoon. It was over 50 degrees. We slept in, yakked, read, took naps and basically took the day off as a quasi spa day. Pure luxury. In the evening we headed…
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Happy Birthday to my Man
This is quite possibly one of the most temperate birthdays this February baby has ever had in his 53 (gasp!) years. And while we still have a few hours left to go, so far it’s pretty close to perfection. The plan was for him to have a Mario Kart marathon with Hudi, Zeb, Bri and Lauren,…
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A Digital Mini Time Capsule
Last week my friend and co-worker, Pam, posted a cute blog post in which she asked her kids questions, and they answered. She opened by saying it was a meme going around Facebook. Remembering the past, I dredged up a link to the trend from 2009 and pulled up my own kids’ answers (different questions,…
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Hudi Turns Sixteen
He stands over half a foot taller than I, but he will always be my baby (as are his brothers). I’m not certain when my youngest child morphed into a young man, but it happened. His zeal for life is inspiring. Whether he is teaching people how to snowboard and ski, mowing lawns for neighbors,…
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Coming Home on a Day Off
Today was a day off work for me. We homeschool Hudi, and Zeb had a day off college, so we decided to use the reciprocal we got with our Swain season pass to go to Holiday Valley. It was a beautiful day. Hardly a cloud in the sky and 34 degrees when we left (we…
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Super Saturday on the Slopes
It was Winter Carnival Day at Swain, and the conditions couldn’t have been better. Kids were doing egg hunts in the snow, there was a goofy costume parade down the slopes, a pie eating contest, and downhill dummy races. So fun!!! But even better than that was the time spent with friends. It was the…
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Bliss
What is your idea of bliss? That’s today’s assignment for Photo 101. I tried to remember my latest feeling of bliss, and it occurred just a week or so ago at Swain Resort. It was a perfect day, and I was snowboarding with my husband. We weren’t freezing, and the snow was coming down in…