Moose on the loose!

What a fun morning we had! The girls both ran their first ever trail race :)

It started with gearing up with tatoos

Then getting psyched upon arrival

C's group took off first:

And then M's group about five minutes later. M decided she wanted me to run with her so no video of the start, but we did get this one of her about 3/4 of the way through.

We had a chance to get her finisher's necklace and a snack before C came in:

We were about to take off and then they started annoucing winners so we stuck around only to hear that M took 3rd place in the mini moose divison!

Super super fun morning, and we were super grateful to be at our race, and not the redbull400 happening up the hill (yes there are people running UP the ski jump).

Happy Saturday from PC!

Tuesday Update #12

Welp. We're still sick. It's still grey. And there's still snow.

But... at least the one redeaming part of March has started... we've been watching quite a bit of basketball and turns out pretty much every game has some team who's mascot is related to "kitty"

Colt's training is going well, but his spelling still isn't very good.

And apparently at 7 it is still fun to dress up for purim, and pretty darn cool to end up in the same outfit as the rabi :)

Tuesday Update #11

Summary of the last week: "Why are we under attack?"

While Colt's concern on that one was the fact that I moved from one couch to another on my sick day, it can definitely be generalized to the whole family being under attack of the dreaded spring cold virus all week. Started with M, spread to C, I was down on Saturday, and Alex is still down. The silver lining is that my office actually fits a the whole crew of sick pups.

And the girls come up with creative ways to pass the time:

In other news, the sun finally came out.

And M really likes to sing.

Happy Tuesday!

Tuesday Update #10

It's still Tuesday somewhere, right? Close enough.

News from the Provan house is that the dreaded spring cold has decended.

We've gone through about 5 boxes of tissues since the weekend. Luckily, turns out colt is a pretty good nurse.

M just sat there and held his hand for a surprisingly long chunk of the morning yesterday. Super sweet :)

Before resorting to nothing but PJs, we did have some fun this weekend. Most noteably, C figured out how to ski on snow shoes:

And M figured out how to snow shoe:

Tuesday Update #9

Part of me wondered if this was going to be the week that I didn't actually have any updates after what felt like a very long short week, but then Maggie bought m a hat (in order to bump up to free shipping - priorities people)

Colt and I decided all dogs are the right size to be lap dogs on friday nights

We built some new furnature for C's room

Had dinner over at Piper's house

And of course went skiing

So it ended up a pretty good update after all :)

Tuesday Update #8

Last week was February break for PC schools so the girls had off. We signed C up for camp at the local rec center and M up for camp with her regular program, so both girls were running like crazy all day every day. And by Friday we looked like this. 

The record should show that there's no TV on in this picture - they're both just sitting there staring off into space. Very tired girls :)

Lucky we still got in some reading to pup

And by Sunday had recovered enough to have a family ski day. Alex left early with all the gear to get a reasonable parking spot, and to have some fun adult skiing before being joined by the fam. The girls and I decided to avoid the parking mess all together and took the bus to the slopes.

Turns out buses are most fun when they're electic, you have a lollypop, and there's a rediculous view out the back of the bus window that kinda looks like it should be a picture, but it really is the unplaned view out the back of the bus. These girls are lucky that's for sure :)

And if c has her way she'll be lucky for a long time to come...

Tuesday Update #7

Update #7 - of horses and snow

Oh hi readers

We've been reading some good books here this week

And also celebrating valentines day

where c got the worlds most brillant valentine (for those who live in cold weather - it's a pack of tissues!!!)

But anyway, two big stories for this week. First, Saturday night we used a gift certificate I had gotten as a going away present from my old work to take the girls on a sleigh ride dinner excursion. It was WAY fun.

And then we followed it up on Sunday by heading up to the Ranch where there is a serious amount of snow.

(this is what the side of their driveway looks like...turns out it also makes an excellent slide)

Tuesday Update #6

Variations on the "winter" theme for this week's update.

M's still singing 

C likes to cheer M on while skiing:

For those who watch the video with sound, I feel obliged to call out that I had never met the man you hear cheering like crazy. M has been paired with his daughter (also named Sarah) all season so they had met m during drop off/pick up, but somehow we had always missed each other.  I felt obliged to introduce myself after taking the video :) Turns out Sarah will be going to the same school as M next year, so we're hoping they'll stay buddies. I just love how loudly they cheered.

(M & her ski buddy Sarah)

It snows a lot at our house

And C is a rediculous skier for someone who's 7

Yup. Pretty regular February :)