Let It Snow

We woke up this morning and here's a pic out our front door. And we're expecting a few more inches.

fun and busy weekend

Saturday we had a holiday party for our softball team! The theme was ugly sweaters, and Stephanie let me borrow hers. Thanks Steph, I WON!! I gave the prize to the guy who got 2nd place. Can you tell from the photos below what his prize would have been.......?

No photo would be complete without this pose.

Other activities at the party included a white elephant gift exchange. Look at what Carter won!!!!!!!!!!

Also Carter had a great sweater--it was from Grandpa Hubicz! It wasn't extremely ugly but definitely Christmasy with trees, etc. The best part was it had these HORRIBLE hanger creases! It looked like it had been in Grandpa's closet for 40 years (and it probably had! I had never seen grandpa in a sweater like that). Carter wore the sweater with the tie he's wearing above, Santa's playing golf :-) I believe that came from his Dad. After this party we continued on to a 2nd party another friend was hosting (we are so popular, I know!) which was a cocktail party complete with fancy dresses. It was great to show up in our crazy outfits! However late partying gave us a late start on Sunday......

....which was a day I had been looking forward to for weeks--we finally got to visit Sport Authority Field and I got my eyes on Tim Tebow in person! Now when Tim first got drafted to the Broncos I was skeptical....after his first couple games I was still skeptical, definitely slow to joint the band wagon. But seriously, there's something ABOUT that guy, I just can't stop loving him! So now I'm officially on the band wagon. I hope to bear his children someday. They would be beautiful AND athletic!

We tailgated just a bit before the game. Here is Carter paying corn-hole with his brother and nephew (we gave them our 3rd and 4th tickets)

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Walking to the stadium I noticed a MARCHING BAND!  I had no idea the Broncos had a marching band, that really made my day! Unfortunatley no clarinets. I think that's a void I could fill, they definitely need some 'nets!

Here we are before the game. We were exactly 5 rows from the VERY top :-) Surprising the view was still great, we could see everything going on and we also got to see mountains! 

The weather was great, very sunny and probably 58 degrees. It was HOT in the beginning, we were afraid we were getting sunburnt and we wished we brought our sun hats. When the sun went down it felt great, not exactly cold but definitely cooler. I put on a hand-knit hat :-)

The first quarter of the game was great, Broncos scored right away and really seemed in control! 2nd quarter was very slow and not as exciting. The halftime show really sucked. Monkeys on dogs sounds like such a good idea, but they really didn't do anything cool. The best part was that at the very end he showed us the monkeys were NOT tied to the dogs! That made me feel so much better!

Before the game.

After the game. Needless to say, we lost to the Patriots that day. I was hoping for an exciting comeback (Tebow-style) like last week, but none to be found. I still love the Broncos. 

Next year we want to do the same thing as this year--we got the tickets half-off at a special sale in the beginning of the season. Hopefully we'll recruit more people next year to get tickets too so we can have a bigger and more elaborate tailgate! Let me know if your'e interested.

Broncos game today!!

Despite the hundreds of yards between us (me in the nose-bleeds and he on the field), I'm sure the love connection between Tim and I will be unmistakeable. I can't wait!!

Hi Tim! See you soon!

funny website of the week

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hgrant/26-of-the-best-of-the-worst-family-holiday-cards

seriously, this is hilarious!

xmas card rejects

Here were the candidates I did NOT choose, I won't reveal which photo I chose until I send out all my cards and can be sure you see it in the mail first!

 

 

relaxing snow weekend before the crazy holidays......

Last weekend we went to Sylvan Lake State Park near Eagle! (which is just west of Vail). We hadn't spent much time in that area before, so we really enjoyed exploring, we love going to different places in the mountains every time! Eagle was a super cute city, small and quaint but still really close to skiing, mtns, etc. It had a cute downtown, where we ALMOST saw the holiday parade! (we got there right as it was ending.....we only saw one fire truck :-( I was sad.) Anyways here are some photos of the weekend, including a preview of what may be one of our xmas card photos (we haven' decided yet!) along with some outtakes :-)

Enjoy!

We got to the cabin late Friday. Saturday we hiked up a closed forest road that went up a pass. It would be great to  go back in the summer so we could drive further up the road and do different hikes! Lots of lakes at the top but we didn't make it too far.

we hiked about 4 miles that day (2 up and 2 down)

I wore my NEW SNOWSHOES (thanks to my friend Barbara, who works at REI! Best xmas gift ever!!!), even though it was really borderline whether I needed them or not. Carter just wore YakTrax and was fine, but it was pretty icy under the snow so I was glad to have the spikes.

Emma loves snow!

It was SUPER cold, and snowed most of Saturday

Carter and Emma walking to a potential photo site.

outtake

this was our cabin, so cute!!!! There were 9 cabins, I think we should plan a family reunion at a place like this! We didn't get any photos of inside, but it was super cute--2 rooms, sleeps 6, gas stove for heat, nice table and shelves, etc. We loved it! We actually spent more time relaxing than anything....I finished 2 magazines and 1 book, and got halfway through another! Also I started a new xmas knitting gift and almost finished it on the drive home. 

Here we are hiking around Sylvan Lake on Sunday. I'm wiping the snot off my nose.

eating Emma's ear

JUMP!

soooooo happy!

Emma running toward me

Carter running toward me

Vegas, Baby!

As you probably saw from the phone-pictures I posted a few weeks ago, Carter and I had a long weekend vacation in Vegas over Veteran's Day long weekend! We had a great time, just the two of us--I think this might have been the one and only time we've ever gone on a vacation together to a NON-family related function! yay us! I had never been to Vegas before, so Carter showed me around and we saw all the sights and did pretty much everything. I liked it a lot, but decided 3-4 days was just about enough Vegas for any one person, so I was also happy to be home. Vegas is tiring!!

Here are my pics, enjoy!

This was the beautiful entry-way inside the Wynn. I waffled a lot, but I think the Wynn was my favorite casino/hotel! We didn't stay here, but pretty much went back every day because we liked it so much. The decorations and feel were the perfect mix of modern and classic, very sophisticated.

This is still at the Wynn--we had the brunch buffet! The wait was a little excessive (1.5 hrs in line I think???) but the food was AMAZING! we both left SOOO stuffed. 

I had a bottomless mimosa! mmmm

also at the Wynn

my favorite model in front of our hotel--Circus Circus

We got a really good deal on this hotel, but it definitely is not the nicest place on the strip!  It was fine though, very family oriented and kinda "classic". The room was MUCH nicer than we thought it would be, it must have been recently renovated.  We were fairly far from the main part of the strip so we took the bus a lot.

not the best photo, but this is us all dressed up before going to our show! We saw Cirque De Soleil show called "KA" and it was AMAZING.!! We weren't allowed to take photos but I'll just describe it here.
I knew we had good seats, but I didn't realize HOW great they were--we were FRONT ROW and in the exact middle! Apparently our tickets were not the most expensive kind but the 2nd most expensive tickets,  as you can't see quite everything from the front row (almost TOO close, but not really). We thought it was fabulous though, were so close we could really touch the actors if we wanted too! In fact, one of them almost DID hit Carter in the head! They also ran right through our front row and we had to put our legs down otherwise we would have tripped them! The show was great, it had more of a plot than the other Cirque show we've seen, but still plenty of crazy stuff too. The stage and set were also amazing. 

One day we spent in old town (Freemont Street). I liked it a lot, for some of the same reasons as Circus Circus--it's old, classic, not much has changed, but it's still clean and fine. We had breakfast here and gambled a bit in some smallll casinos!

Freemont Street

Trying to be artsy until Carter told me what sort of place this a sign for.....can anyone guess?

they gave free beers much  more freely on Freemont Street! Yay!

These people were getting married on the sidewalk in front of
Circus Circus, so romantic :-)

Our last night in Vegas we didn't have plans, so we bought last minute tickets to a magic show!  Also we made friends with some people while we were waiting to get into the show , and they invited us to sit in their booth in the front row! 

His name was Jan something, from Germany and with a thick accent. He was very cheesy but his magic was good, we couldn't really figure many of them out! (Carter claims he had a few figured out)

After this show we went to a very nice italian restaurant recommended by Becky. We went all out and got appetizers, desserts, etc. It was sooooooooooo good!

I think that's the Wynn again. These pictures are apparently not in order....?

This Chilhuly glass art work was on the ceilling at the Bellagio, so beautiful! Now it is the background on my cell phone.

Bellagio brunch buffet on our last day--Carter got entire plates of meat!

Waiting for the Belagio fountains on our last day

shopping on the strip!

mmmmmmmm M&Ms in sepia!

and Coca Cola in black and white! I'm so artsy.

I took this one for the Boehms!

At the huge coke store we got a sampler of 16 types of Coke products around the WORLD!! It was so interesting, crazy crazy flavors from all crazy counties.

mmmmmmmmmm

One more fountain experience before we got on a bus to the airport.

They played "Viva Las Vegas" by Elvis! Perfect!

Goodbye Vegas

goodbye,  Circus Circus