Pond Skimming

Don't let the foot of snow in the forecast fool you, spring is coming. Case and point - today Park City Mountain Resort hosted the 20th annual Pond Skimming.

What is pond skimming you ask? Well a ton of people gather

and they set up a track with a pond at the end

and people do this

in crazy costumes

yes that is a man with a matching gold speedo and scuba hat wearing ski boots. For the record, he didn't make it across the pond. The costumes were all over the board, but I think my favorite was the ski patrol folks on the side of the pond with the full ski patrol outfits on, plus an inflatable animal inner tube.

As icing on the cake, the weather was AWESOME.

After watching for a bit we decided to head back to the lodge to grab some lunch. M had fun watching the skiers coming in..

... and c and I had fun just having fun :o)

P.S. I also had no less than 5 conversations about the Wisconsin game last night with random strangers who saw my sweatshirt and shouted "go badgers". Turns out we weren't the only folks with Madison roots on the hill today.

Home Art

We also spend some time at home working on art. C works on fine motor skills...

M on slightly less fine motor skills...

And I work on "coloring for relaxation". 

We all win!

School Art

Kids are still producing lots of art at school. I'm still taking pictures of it so you can enjoy it as well (and I can recycle it without guilt)

Skiing update

Even though the snow is mostly gone at our house, there's still quite a bit on the mountains. And that means the skiing's still going strong.

According to Alex, C...

• Can both turn and stop
• Is a wizard at snowplowing
• Doesn't need the "magic carpet" anymore and is fine on chair lifts
• Was almost going to go on a blue run this weekend

Not bad for her first winter in the mountains! The crazy part is that we're already looking at buying next year's season passes... including one for m :o)

Finally some good news!

So it's been a rough couple of weeks here. I posted about the last few rounds of illness, but since then I went down, and went down hard. Temperature was 104.7 by the time I got to urgent care, and I was flat on my back for several days after that. BUT, things are starting to turn around for the mad city provans. Starting with.....

Yes folks, those are what you think they are. Mailbox keys! After 6 months of fighting with USPS and dealing with lost mail and packages, we finally have mail service at our house. Never again will I take a simple thing like getting mail for granted, or rather I won't when the package I ordered from Amazon today actually arrives :o)

Circular Progress

No pictures today but at this point I feel like my last post was false advertising, so here are our updates.

• Wednesday - daycare calls after nap time. C's running a fever. By the time we get C to urgent care her temp is 104. Step test is negitive but they prescribe her antibiotics anyway because that's a heck of a fever.
• Thursday - C stays home, still sick but certainly better (yay drugs). Alex is decidedly not better so takes his turn at urgent care. His turns out to be a sinus infection so he also got antibiotics.

I'm so so so so happy tomorrow is Friday.

Progress

Well, I'm very proud to report that for the first time since last Tuesday everyone went where they were supposed to this morning and stayed there all day! No don't be fooled, most are still sick. But at least it's a more functional level of sick than we've seen in a while. Hurrah Progress.

We were all pretty tired by the time we got home though.