Christmas

Madison and Grace are trying to break into the hat modeling business.

They would really like to be picked up by North face as there exclusive hat models...




Is it ever going to stop snowing??

My nephew Zack and my sister Mindi on Christmas morning.

My niece's Emily and Riley aren't they adorable.

Mom, brother in-law Jim and my sister Vicki


My Sister Ro Ro

We want to wish everyone a Happy Holidays and Happy New year. We had such a wonderful Christmas with both of our families and the snow has been flying.

First big snow 12/08

We finally had our first big snow storm of the year, which is supposed to last for the next few days. I went out on the front walk last evening as the sun was setting and took a few pictures.

Thanksgiving 2008

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted anything. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. The weekend before Thanksgiving we decided to get the house all decorated for Christmas. It's always such an ordeal but once it all done it is fun.

We spent the day at my Mom's (momma faye) with my sister Vicki her daughter Christina, my brother Lonnie, and sister Rochelle. This was the first Thanksgiving at Mom's new house. Mindi and her family could not make it since there household was over run by strep throat and Mindi was in the hospital with epiglottitis. She is now out and is on the mend.


The day after Thanksgiving we threw a little Retirement party for Eric's good friend Kay. Kay retired after 31 years with the Weber county fire department and he rounded up some of his old ski patrol friends from Powder Mountain ski resort. It was such a lovely evening a was able to meet many of Eric's old friends whom I had only heard stories about. Thanks to Dan from Snowbasin and everyone pitching in they were able to get Kay a great pair of skis for his retirement/years of good friendship present.

Eric and Kay

Bob and Kay

November 7-9, 2008 Moab mountain biking

This was going to be a four day White rim trip but we scrubbed for fear of rain that had been forcast all week and we all decided to go down and a couple of day rides instead. Eric, myself, Carol, Diane, Jeff, Scott, Packer, Keith, Belinda, Jim, and Tommie had two great days of riding well they were more like adventures on mountain bikes. We made it down with not a second of light to lose had a celebration beer and headed off to the Moab brewery. After dinner the musically inclined all brought down their instruments and has a great jam session at Jim's friend Jason's house who lives down in Moab.

Our first day in moab we made it to the top of Klondike bluff and hike up to the overlook of arches we were just in time to see the sun start going down. Needless to say it was a cold ride down with hardly any light (that set the theme for the weekend).

Three hot chics ready to ride porcupine rim.

Packer making sure his bike (butt)is ready for the ride.


On the ride up porupine we kept passing patches of snow on the side of the trail. This is a great picture looking over at the La Sal mountains.





We made it to the overlook on porcupine rim trail up hill all the way. Stopped for lunch and a few photo's.

Keith and Belinda (Belinda's smiling because she loves her bike clips sooo much)

Look at the six pack on that guy. Jeff was calling Scott back at the hotel to get the football scores.


Tommie wins the award for best wreck (I was behind her and saw it happen) and she had the bruises the next day to prove it.
Jeff showing us all he can still go off jumps!


Overlooking the Colorado river at this point we were wondering "are we there yet" we were losing sun fast and there seemed to be alot of "hike a bike" going on but the views were absolutely breathe taking.


The sun going down on the red rock was beautiful.

We survived two fun filled and tiring days in Moab with a great group of friends. It was nice to get to sleep in a warm bed instead of in a tent with 30 degree temperatures.

Keith disrupts the packing so the boys can have one final jam before we have to head for home.

San Diego for Jimmy Buffett October 08

We headed out for the California for a whirl wind week to see Jimmy Buffett twice, a Raider's game and wine tasting. We left October 15th in the evening and drove all night (well Eric and Walt drove I mostly slept) to make it to Mission Beach for sunrise and a beautiful breakfast on the beach.

After breakfast we were off straight away to Chula Vista to the verizon amphiteather for some serious parrothead tailgating!! My liver hurts just thinking about it. We prevailed at whoooing the crowd with our matching "Jimmy Buffett for President" shirts that Dave Bell made for us.

Our friend Bucket won the "hero" of the concert award. There is a video on the photo's link of him dancing on a stripper pole....need I say more. As always the tailgating was amazing I think parrotheads are some of the most creative people out there with there decoration and great costume ideas.

Jimmy put on a fabulous show as always, but that stadium needs way more "blue rooms" for the drinking crowd. I was in line for almost three song (we think the girl in front of us passed out in the port o potty) and almost wet my pants.

The next morning we were on the road again heading up north to Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is where Barry grew up so we were on our way to check out some of his old haunts and visit his mother Betsy. Betsy was so great she let us invade her house for a couple of days and took us all to a wonderful dinner. Pull in to the drive way we took a big chunk out of the asphalt on the road so when it was time to pull out we had to become creative with some wood so we would not take out any more of the road. The original Margaritaville
From Santa Cruz we were off to Oakland for a Raider's football game. What a great crowd. Raiders fans take it very serious and they know how to tailgate. They won the Jets that day and I was just excited to see Bret Farve play. The only down fall is we were in the shade and it was damn cold. Once the game was over we headed off to Calistoga for a litte okay a lot of wine tasting. Our first stop on the tour was Castello Di Amorosa. This castle looks like something from Tuscany but it was built here. It was started in 1993 and took 15 years to finish. It's 121,000 square feet and it's authentic. We left Napa on the road to San Jose to see Buffett again but we stopped along the way to visit Eric's friend Kelly who lives in Mill Valley. What a beautiful home with amazing views of San Fransico. Kelly was such a great host letting us over run his house and play in his pool and hot tub. His dogs are awesome and great lap swimmers.
We then headed off to San Jose to the shoreline ampitheater for the last and final show of the trip.