St Patrick's Day 2009

I would just like to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day. Go have cornbeef and cabbage and drinks plenty of green beer. I hope everyone the LUCK OF THE IRISH TODAY!!
I thought I would add a couple of pictures from our trip to Ireland in 2007


This is Blarney castle where you can kiss the Blarney stone.


Eric kissing the Blarney stone (yuck)

One cannot go to Ireland without taking the tour of the Guinness brewery!!


Eric and his dreams of becoming a great brewer.

A picture of St. Patrick's Cathedral from the Gravity bar atop the Guinness brewery. (FREE GUINNESS)


St. Patrick's Cathedral

February 2009

I don't know where the time goes but I didn't add an entry for the month of February so I am just adding it onto this post. What a great month we had such great weather and took the dogs cross country skiing every chance we had.

Eric, Grace, Madison and I cross country skiing up at Snowbasin.



The girls and I cross country skiing at the golf course.

Look at the hot chick!

Eric with his girls!

January

Fred Beckey and I after he and Eric went skiing at Snowbasin. He stayed over and showed us old movies of himself and a group of mountaineers doing a new route first ascent on Mt. McKinley in 1954!! He just celebrated his 86th Birthday in January!


Vince, Sarah, Karen, Pete, Eric and I enjoying a bluebird day at Snowbasin It was so nice by the fire we had a hard time getting back out to ski. Eric friend Rick came in from Spokane to do some skiing so we headed to Snowbasin where we ran into Kay and Kevin. It was a great day. Kay and Rick just wanted to let everyone know in case they were wondering how they really feel about retirement. I think the picture speaks for itself. Eric and Kevin

January is coming to a close it's been a great weather minus the inversion in the SL valley. Mom celebrated her 68th Birthday!! We threw her a little suprise party which turned out fabulous it was great to see some of my extended family it had been way too long. (pictures will be posted when I get them from my sister) I took my niece Samantha snowboarding for the first time....she was a trooper. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so I don't have any blackmail photo to post on the blog.

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.