Category Archives: Holidays

Happy New Year 2012

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2011 was pretty unreal. As a matter of fact, one of my favorites. Skiing the beginning of the year was great, Ski Utah asked me to stay, I was able to travel a ton, and see my family much more than usual. I discovered yoga.

We got closer to some amazing friends. We watched two of my favorite ladies in the world create some beautiful sons. We made huge progress on the house. Everything was great.

This coming year, skiing will be good, our life will be good, and wow, I’ve got some great company coming soon (not to mention a major birthday…)I’m full of the happiness in life and hope you had a great 2011 too, and wish you a perfect 2012~

Remember you create your joy with every breath, every thought, every word, every action.

Jive Turkeys

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It has been FIVE years since we shipped ourselves off to New Zealand for the holidays.

Since then we’ve had Thanksgivings in Austin, San Diego, and Utah aplenty. We are always lucky to have a life full of wonderful friends that are truly more like family to share our holidays with. Someday soon we’ll be celebrating with my family again and I look forward to that.

Of course, here and now, we will be skiing. Snowbasin opens tomorrow, and Canyons on Friday.

I’m thankful that my life is full of love, fun, and excitement.

There are a few things on this list that made me laugh. It is a good reminder of the things that will be important forever, and the things that change over time.

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Oldentimes

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Look around here in the past. This used to be such a thrilling time of the year. I was moving around years ago on Halloweens, starting to write books for NaNoWriMo. Seeing people I know now taking on the challenge to write a novel in a month makes me nostalgic!

Things are still thrilling, just in a different way.

I gave up my goals again and again in favor of new opportunities.

I also kept them on the back burner.

As much as I try to bring my books to life, I scare myself. I second guess things. I give up on editing.

I’m sitting now with a perfect couple of chapters, written, rewritten, and crafted to the best of my ability.

I’m happy blogging, freelancing, and continuing to sit and wonder if I can lift a book into a reality of published work. And I still believe it can happen.

I spend time waiting for everything to fall into place. Besides relationships I need to work to improve, my life has never been better.  Our house is beautiful, if not fully updated. We’ve met wonderful new friends, and I am continuing to enjoy the perks of Ski Utah. My family and I have been able to spend more time together than ever. I quit drinking, and started two-a-day workouts to prepare for the ultimate ski season. The snow is starting to fly.

I’m so blessed!

5 Years Of Marriage

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Knowing someone for ten years, you learn their likes and dislikes. Being married five years, you learn about what matters in life and what doesn’t. I talked about our first wedding anniversary dinner, our second being on a trip to LA, and don’t even remember our third. Last year we went out to Hapa Grill with MH and pigged out on sushi.

Five is a special number, though. And we had a plan. We decided in the spirit of just how freaking outdoorsy we’ve become, to go camping for our anniversary. Us, a hike, a tent. Aw.

But, nooooo way was that going to happen this Memorial Day weekend!

All we can do is laugh and be thankful we chose to postpone the great outdoors trip based on the weather reports.

Gifts!

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So, I did get some other gifts too…

First thing I love: Christmas decorations at 60% off.

(Doesn’t this look like something out of a magazine?

And it’s just a wreath for MY fireplace! And it was SEVEN DOLLARS).

Second: A Dadd who spent forever finding me some vintage skis to hang and make some art out of for the house!

 

And third: Super sweet (and taxing) treasure hunt around the house (inside and out!) for the perfect gift from hubby:

Ski Utah better watch out now! :)

Sentimental

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We don’t really DO Christmas. I get sad about it sometime, staying here to ski instead of going home. I get sad that I’m not better at organizing something or planning a party or buying everyone their dream gifts.

This year on Christmas Eve I received a gorgeous sign from my friends K+TP. A candle from MIL. Some stocking stuffers from Momm and Dadd.

I knew it was the one real gift under my tree to save for last from my Meme – Dadd’s mommy. I wasn’t sure what it was until I opened it. And paged through it. And cried and cried and cried.

I think this gift is very special, one that you should immediately go and buy for your loved ones.

I bought this book for Meme and she filled it out and returned it to me. It’s questions about her past, present, life observations and family stories.

She left nothing blank, word for word the questions fill out her whole being and are there now for my children and theirs to someday read. It’s pretty exceptional. The perfect gift!

Bah Humbug

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Both sides of the story.

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Five Things That Are Tough Around Christmas:

  1. Love where I live, but it really limits your shopping.
  2. Totally only 5 presents under the tree (thanks momm).
  3. Missing family.
  4. Digging out of the snow all month.
  5. Nothing good on our 4 TV channels.
  6. Power outages. Like, every year.
  7. Cooking for 2.
  8. Not knowing what to buy anyone.
  9. Typically exhausted all week.
  10. Staying off the internet!

 

Same December

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Just reread December of 2009 posts. MK keeps telling me that I need to reinvent myself over here, do something new. Get back to a million hits a day, not 40. But how can I when we are doing the totally identical stuff??!?

We went to the ski swap. We’ve been working on the house. It’s been snowing.

Seriously, how funny! I never thought we’d do the same thing more than once, what is this, a routine?

Sure things are new, the living room is a different color, I’m skiing all over Utah not at just one resort. But I’m looking forward to Deer Valley opening Saturday, and we’ve been clearing snow, talking about the weather, and putting off decorating for Christmas…just like last December!

I’m just glad we picked the right place, or we’d be really mad that we had to rebuild the entire deck. We’d hate that we’ll be inside nailing in trim when we get home from skiing. Fortunately, though, we’ve got that Santa Crawl to look forward to again. Company, nights out, ugly sweater parties, and POWDER days!