Superman is in the house!

A couple videos of Nater and his friend Drew dunking in the backyard...

Snowboarding

A few pics of the boys' first snowboarding trip of the season. They've both been dying to get up. The conditions have been horrible this year and Nathan chose to play basketball instead of doing the snowboarding bus. So, between busy schedules and not enough snow in the mountains we didn't get up to the Pass until February. Garrett got a snowboard from Santa this year so this was his first attempt ever. He was so excited. He did GREAT!!!!! By the end of the first hour he was making turns and had mastered stopping. Granted the incline was pretty flat but his confidence was awesome. He was begging to go on the chairlift! We did the magic carpet for about 2 hours while Nater rode Little Thunder (and by "we" I mean Quinn - I was taking pictures!) We took a break and Garrett and I went into the Lodge for dinner while Quinn and Nathan went on one of the longer runs. Then Nater joined us in the lodge while Quinn took a few runs at his speed. We had a blast and the boys begged to stay longer. We're going over to Mission Ridge next weekend so they won't have to wait long to go again.

I wanted Arizona to win...

Our week was pretty busy. Lots of activities for the boys, plus Quinn was in New York for two days. He hates travelling so he squeezes as much business into as few days as he can. It was a successful trip for him...but we're glad he's back.








Yesterday was another crazy busy basketball day. Luckily only two games though. Gater at 8:30, then Nater at 1:30 but all the way out in Edmonds. The Rebels did great and hit half time tied 10 to 10. They lost but this was definitely our best and closest game. Nathan had a really cool in the air defensive play toward the end of the game and played really hard. Even better, the school had a huge and very cool kinda old school playground in the back - they even had a merry go round...so awesome. Since we were already in the north end we met Grandpa Steve and Grandma Kay for dinner at Red Robin. We even ran into Lisa Barry and her mom. We had fun!

Garrett and I went on our annual shopping trip to the Bellevue Arts store with Grandma today...but made it home in time for the Superbowl. Garrett picked out some fun toys (even though we were there for art supplies - he did buy some clay). BUT, then he saw the holiday decorations section (all 75% off) and he was NOT leaving without buying the huge snowman hot cocoa dispenser. It was originally $80 and we got it for $20 but man it's huge, and all my Christmas stuff has already been put away. Where am I gonna put this thing!