This one is REALLY important.

Hello all,

I have a new goal and I need your help and expertise. Please check out my other blog http://pedalingwithapurpose.blogspot.com/. I know a lot of brilliant and wonderful people so if any of you have knowledge or resources that would help me in my endeavor please let me know!

Sincerely,
Brooke

I love to ski!

This weekend proved to be fabulous skiing. On Saturday the weather was GREAT. Sunny, blue skies overhead all day and good company to be with.

Sunday, though clouded and even raining, proved to be a fabulous day full of laughter and oh so much fun. Jaymee and I got up for early morning gondola ride at niner. We took laps on Dan's Run for a couple of hours. We found this stellar little drop just off to skiers left after dropping into Dan's Run.

Jaymee took this killer picture of me going off of it. Her words after taking the picture were, "Why am I your best friend? Because I make you look GOOD in pictures!" It was sooo funny. Was she implying that I don't look good on my own, or was she just pointing out her killer photography skills. Well, it was a small jump but since she is my BFF I'm going to go ahead and say that she wasn't insulting me but that she was pointing out her skills!

We skied Dan's Run nearly all day, until the mountain closed, and had a total blast. On the very last run of the day (though we didn't call last run as it is against Cindy Patterson's rules) we were coming down School Hill and jibbing on lots of drifts and such. I decided to try a cool little trick that didn't work out so well....

And this is how I ended up! Luckily I came out with only a sore back and a bruised knee. I have no answer as to how my ski pole ended up in my crotch, but it did! Good thing I was wearing protective eyewear so as not to poke an eye out, right Julie and Jaymee! ;-)

It was a stupendous weekend!!!!

On another note of my other love affair, cycling...this week the weather is warmer (daytime highs are in the 40's) and it's sunny. Today I began riding my bike to work again. I don't know how long I'll be able to continue but for at least this week anyway. I don't know what the temperature was this morning but I expected it to be much colder than it really was and I completely overdressed. I was hot almost from the instant that I walked out the door but it felt sooooo good to be riding again. Tomorrow I will plan my wardrobe better. Even riding home in just my wool Backcountry.com jacket this afternoon I was hot. Also, I'd like to add that you fall out of shape in much less time than it takes to get into shape. Riding uphill all the way home, I quickly realized, is something that requires stamina and endurance. Both of those are things that take time and maintenance and don't just "happen" for an athlete.

I'm going to have to train in the off-season from now on!

Baby Gavin has arrived!

Yesterday turned out to be a super duper awesome day!!! I got a call from my little sister, Casey around 10am to say that she was having a C Section to deliver her baby at 2pm that afternoon. How exciting, and talk about the jitters. I couldn't sit still all day long. Around 2:40 I got a text message with a picture of the cutest and newest member of our family. His name is Gavin Hunter and he weighed 5 pounds and 14 ounces. Today Casey is feeling great and not drugged... :-) Gavin has had a blood transfusion due to high hemoglobin, but aside from that is doing well.

Sadly for me, I don't get to go home to see him until March...but I'm hoping that time will fly and it will be here before I know it. I can't wait to squeeze those cute little cheeks. :-)

Knuckle Tats

Monday night we went to Brewskie's to play some pool. While playing pool there were some really creepy awesome guys next to us playing pool at the other table. I checked out early for the night because I had to work in the morning. When Devin left to walk me out to my car those two men swooped in on Jaymee, Jonna, and Cassie and tried to get them some ladies. Apparently they both had knuckle tatoos that said their names on them, "Dipn Soss" and "Animal". Needless to say it has been a constant joke among us since then. When we all got together Tuesday night to go out for dinner we decided that our own knuckle tattoos were in order so we all made them. This is a picture of Devin and I showing off our knuckle tats.

Jaymee=DIPN SOSS
Jonna=WHOR ETON
Cassie=YOUR MOMS
Brooke=SATN BUNY (That's satin not Satan!)
Devin=MILK DUDD

And dont' forget it!!!

Going out and fun and stuff

Tuesday night was a super fun night. I got home from work at 4:30 to 6 inches of fresh new snow on our driveway. Because I'm a tard I always tend to do things the hard way. I decided I would shovel the wet, heavy snow; instead of using the snowblower that I knew was in the garage! So I began to shovel. It took a long time to make a small dent on the deep snow. About 45 minutes after I started Jaymee and Cassie got home from skiing. Jaymee's first words were, "Why don't you use the snowblower?" My reply, "I like to do things "Pioneer Style" So Jaymee got the Snowblower out and went to work. After clearing the driveway we went to Iggy's for dinner with some friends. That was a blast too.
Morgano getting creative with the ice cream sundae.

Jonna's knuckle tats. Too bad animal and soss couldn't come have dinner with us at Iggy's. :-(

After we were done shoveling the driveway the plows kept coming by and pushing a bunch of snow from the street into our driveway so were were trying to clear that out in order to be able to get in and out of the driveway. Well, Jaymee got creative and started throwing it on top of my car. I thought it was funny and it made me look like I'd been somewhere cool all day, like the mountains. It was really funny until we were driving to Iggy's and I slowed down to turn a corner downtown and ALL of the snow on top of my car fell onto my windsheild and nobody could see...then it became hysterically funny! We laughed really hard. Good one Jaymee.

A little bit like a messge in a bottle....a message in the snow!

Rockstar Jaymee and her seriously awesome snowblowing skills.