Brrrr!!!

It's 4 degrees this morning. But it doesn't feel that cold when you're skiing thankfully. We actually got hot yesterday.

Day 2

Here's a little taste of the scenery from our cabin.

The view out our picture window.

The river with our friendly ducks.

The river and some house at the foot of the mountain. I want to live there.

One of our deer and the lift that goes up from right beside our cabins. We're right at the foot of the ski mountain. Pretty cool.

The view from our balcony.

Over the top of the roof. We're in a section that is two story and we're the end room, so our views are great with windows on three sides and balcony on two.

And from the other side of the balcony...
Our buck. All the animals are very curious and not at all scared of people. They only get skittish when there is noise behind them.

I have more pics and will try to do more later. I'm still not feeling great and for some reason too much computer time makes me feel worse, so I'm trying to do these in small bursts of time.

Red River

For those that don't already know, Evan and I are going on a little skiing adventure by ourselves (well, except for my mom and dad, brother and wife, and my cousin and his wife). We left the rest of the family behind, since Michele is skiing at Spring Break, and Michael went over New Years. Mark had to work and Aaron prefers home over most other places. It seemed like a good chance for Evan to get to do something by himself. So off we have gone and here's...

Day1

The growing number of windmills in West Texas

Llamas - that was a new one.

New Mexico.

Flags

Leaving the flatlands. Now the pretty stuff.

Moonrise. I later learned that the moon was closer to the Earth last night than it normally is. I'll have to look into the particulars of that one. I know it certainly looked larger.

Blogger's whacking out on me and I have a sick boy on my hands, so I'll work on day 2 tomorrow (on day 3). Hopefully, Evan will feel better and I'll maybe have some skiing pics then.

Great waves

The waves were amazing. I'm not sure you can see it in the pictures.

Michael and Michele trying to get further out to catch a "big one". Someones head bobbing about behind them. I think it's Evan.

It was hard getting out past them.

The whole gang. Some pretty good waves in this one.

Lots of fun.

Beach therapy

We all love the beach, but Aaron seems to thrive there. He seems more at peace and comfortable there than any other environment we've seen him in. Of course, I guess most people find a certain therapeutic something about the sand and ocean. What's not to love? Well there was that sunburn thing, but I'm blaming that on sunscreen failure - or maybe ozone layer failure? Not sure, but I'm ramping up my SPF factor next time.

He'll just lay in the sand and let the sand and water run through his fingers for ages.

He loves to lay right at the waters edge and let the surf wash over him.

And the day's not complete without a sand castle.

And a sand angel.