Skiing up Grizzly Gulch

Lyndsay and I went skiing up Grizzly Gulch on Martin Luther King day.  It was so much fun to have some time to talk with each other and enjoy the beautiful mountains we have around us.  We took it pretty easy on the way up and the way down since Lyndsay is pregnant.

Here is Lyndsay on the way up.

It was snowing graupel, kind of like small hail.

With one kid already and another on the way, it makes you value your time alone with each other more.

A view of Alta

I hope Lyndsay gets addicted to this like me.

Skinning up.

Skiing down.  It was really icy since it had rained the day before.

Car Show

On the 15th of January, Mace, Grandpa Roy, and I went to the car show.  Mace loved it!  For Christmas Mace got some Matchbox cars and he has loved cars ever since.  One of his first words was "car".

Mace had to get in just about every car we saw.

He loved to pretend he was driving.

If you look closely, you can see his head in the drivers seat.

He loved this $180,000.00 dollar Audi R8.

And loved being with his grandpa.

Mace helped me check out the size of the trunk of one of my dream cars, a Subaru WRX.

Can I get this one grandpa?

Or this one?

Mace just about made it over the barricade to see the new Corvette.

Mace's favorite car, a Ferrari Italia.  He actually owns one of these (a Matchbox car).

Here is some ketchup!

I have been quite the slacker with this blog! 

I will say that I will try to be more on top of it, but I can't promise. Now that I am back in school, blogging has to take a back seat! I will blog when I have time, like right now! :)

Tyler and I on Christmas Eve. We had just finished laying out the gifts for our little Macer!

  

The before picture! (Sorry, there isn't an after picture. I am sure you can imagine what it looked like.)

 Christmas Morning! Mace wasn't sure what to do, he was content with the bottle and blanket.

Daddy and Mace getting ready to tear into those gifts!

 Look Mace, you got a red car!

As you can tell, he still wasn't too into the whole gift thing.

He got a Hippo Flashlight, that laughs a funny laugh.

And, as you can tell, it brought a smile to this little face!

Forget about the rest of the gifts, Mace is a happy camper!

Mace got a sled, snow clothes, cars, play dough, a play dough bench, the hippo flashlight, a car track and a dinosaur puzzle. When we opened the puzzle, Mace started saying, "rawr" over and over! 

For New Year's Eve, I had to work. Tyler and Mace went to bed before the new year hit. I guess that means we are pretty boring! Work was great though. The nurses had a competition to see who could care for the more people coming in because they were drunk! It was a pretty crazy night!

On the second day of the New Year, we drove to Delta for a family Christmas party. We forgot our camera, so sadly I don't have any pictures. :( It was a great day and we had so much fun being with the family.

On the forth day of the New Year, I had my twelve week appointment with my OB. I took Mace with me, which I will never do again! (Unless Tyler is with me.) It was a quick appointment, which I was grateful for because of Mace. He was a little freaked out by the doctor and I think Mace thought he was the patient. We listened to the heart beat, which was such a comforting sound to me. I got the flu a few weeks before Christmas, and had some pretty painful cramping. I was worried about the baby, but everything seemed to be great!

On the fifth day of the New Year, Tyler's younger brother, Brad got married! It was a beautiful day. Brad and Liz were so cute and happy! It was neat to be in the temple with Tyler's parents and all of his siblings. 

Roy and Donna looked so nice!

 Mace looked like such a stud! (Thanks Whitney for letting Mace borrow Cooper's clothes!)

All of the cousins. Mace. Sadie. Brenner. Meredith.

Mace and Grandpa!

While I was working last Friday night, everyone went to the Clark Planetarium! Mace weighs 31 pounds! He is not far behind his cousins at 37lbs and 45lbs!

Skiing up Mill D North

I went skiing with Greg and John on Thursday up Mill D North in Big Cottonwood.  It has been snowing like crazy for the past week.  Below are the 7 day snow totals for the Wasatch front ski resorts:  

It is amazing that Solitude has received almost 8 feet of snow in a week!

Here is John on the way up "Short Swing".

Greg and John

John and Greg at the top of "Short Swing".

The snow was so dense and slow that we couldn't really turn on our way down Short Swing without stopping.

John 

Greg

We decided to head towards "Tom's Hill" in hopes of finding some steeper terrain.  In order to get to Tom's Hill we had to go through some dense trees in some really heavy slushy snow.  You can't really tell from the picture of John below, but we were all really struggling at this point to just make it down the hill.

On our way up Tom's Hill we decided to dig a snow pit to determine the avalanche danger.  Here is John conducting the modified rutschblock test.  We determined the snow to be quite stable despite the heavy new snow.

We ran into some skiing celebrities on our way to Tom's Hill.  Andrew McLean and Bob Athey  It was cool to see them in person as we all follow their blogs during the winter.  Andrew McLean and his partner started up Tom's Hill around the same time we did.  By the time we made it to the top, he and his partner had already made it to the top, skied back down, and climbed back up the 1,000ft or so again.

At the top we were treated to an awesome view of Big Cottonwood canyon with clouds filling up the valley.

Here is Greg on his way down Tom's Hill.  The snow was still heavy, but with it being a little steeper it turned out to be awesome.

John

One more panoramic view from the top of Tom's Hill

Greg hit the "jump" I told him too.  Turns out it wasn't really a jump, but more a bush partly covered in snow. He ended up crashing shortly after I took this picture.  It was worth it to get this picture though, right Greg?