Ski Trip - Purgatory!

We planned a ski trip for the days right before the kids went back to school.  It was pretty good timing because most other schools had already gone back.  We decided to go a little farther this year and head to Colorado.  We went to Purgatory and stayed a few feet from the ski lifts.  It was SO much fun!!!  The kids did great on the drive.  I had little bags they opened every few hours to try to make the drive a little more fun.  

Dinner in Durango on our way in!

Can I tell you how fun it is to finally be in a stage of life that ALL of our kids can ski and do it together for the most part!!!  The boys all are doing great and basically just take off.  Lucy catches on so quick and did really great this year.  She skied some blues by the end.  

We made brought a lot of food and came back for lunch every day.  It was so nice to be so close.  Because of Covid there wasn't hardly any restaurants opened but we did manage to find pizza one night.  

Lots of games at night

We had access to the condo's swimming pool and hot tub.  That was a super fun treat!!!

6 person lift and we filled it!!!

Sadly there was a winter storm coming in as we were getting ready to leave.  We were going to be driving right into it so we decided to leave the afternoon we finished skiing and start our drive home.  We left around 4pm and just kept driving.  It was a bit terrifying at times.....snow coming down and freezing to the windshield.  At one point our defrost wasn't working and it was pretty scary.  We just kept trekking on and made it home around 4am.  Crazy.  We haven't done that in a very long time but the kids did great.  I think Lucy slept almost the entire drive.  Thankfully Logan and I got a coffee in Amarillo and it was enough to keep up both awake the rest of the way home.  

We woke up to snow all over the yard and house!  It was beautiful!

It was a great way to end the Christmas break!!  The kids ended up getting another day off because of the snow which was super nice to recover from the trip before the started back!

New Years Eve/New Years - Marathon

 

New Years Eve looked a bit different than most years.  It's our anniversary and this year it was our 15 year anniversary!  Logan was just starting to feel better and I had a marathon planned on New years day.  I was supposed to run one in College Station in early December but that one got cancelled.  Then I was going to do one in Fort Worth but I found out you had to run with a mask on.....um no.  So this was the only one I could find.  I had been training for a long time and was ready to just get it done.  I didn't think Logan felt up to going but he did.  We decided very last minute to ALL go and make the trip to Houston.  So our New Years Eve was spent driving down to Houston.  We found a fun pizza place to eat at together.  The kids got dessert from Tiff's Treats and thought it was the best thing ever.  I was glad to have my crew with me!!!

The race went great.  It was a little over 6 miles that we looped 4 times.  That kinda got old but overall it was flat and a great course.  The weather was cold and I couldn't have asked for better.  I did get a PR (3:54) but sadly not really close to qualifying for Boston.  It was a great race and super fun to have all my family there with me!!