Copper Mountain 2009

Well I am almost back to my routine. We got back late Friday night from our trip to Colorado and I have been swamped at work trying to catch up, but I think tomorrow I will finally feel like I have.

Alex and I went to Copper Mountain Colorado with our friends Doug & Cassie this year. We had a blast! 4 days on the slopes...(and 2 in the car).

I am still a beginner...I have only been boarding for 8 days now over the past 3 years...all things considered I think I am doing pretty well :) This year I have improved by being able to ride toe side and switch back to heel side effortlessly clockwise, but I have not had any success switching back to toe side. Maybe next year. I have had a few painful falls over my total of 8 days so I am not being that aggressive.

So here are a few pictures from the trip.

Here is one from the bottom of the lift

Us at the bottom of the lift

on the lift

top of the lift

Us at the top of the lift

on the slopes

Us on the slopes

and us sitting on the ice chair

We have a ton more pictures, but we missed our photographer...wish you could have come Jenny we would have had a ton more action shots...next time I guess

I wish more of you could have joined us. The more the merrier I always say :)

Disney Picts

Here are some picts from Disney World.

Everyone had a great time.

This is one of my favorite pictures. This was taken Saturday at about 3 PM...We were tired.

We are going to Disney World

One of my Mom's lifelong dreams has been to go to Disney World with all 6 of her kids. Since she had a pretty big b-day this year we wanted to do something extra special...so for her 50th B-day we decided to surprise her with her long overdue trip. The family is super excited and ready to hit the plane. I am sure we are going to take way too many pictures so you will have to check back again next week to see how much fun a large group of adults with a few kids can have at Disney World.

August Family Visit

We don't get to go out of town often with Alex in his MBA program, but we had this weekend off so we headed down to Vicotria to see Alex's family. We had a great time. When we got there one of our nephews was at Alex's parent's house and wanted to go bowling so we bowled with the 2 older boys and had a blast. I must say I think that was my worst game ever!!! I don't think it helped that for about 2 or 3 frames I was on my cell phone :) Is there anything we won't do with a cell phone these days? In the 9th frame it looked like my nephew (who is 11) was going to beat me, but I put down the phone for the 10th frame and pulled off the win. Our other nephew, who is 5, was in the lane next to us with bumpers and believe it or not threw a strike one frame and the ball never touched the bumpers. We were all impressed.

The baby of the Esquivel family is now pushing 2 and runs non stop. He sure loves his grandpa. I think I heard him say "Hi Po-po" about a hundred times Friday night:)

Saturday, much to my delight, my Mom, Sister-in-law, and her 2 kids came down to Vicotria, so I was able to spend a few hours with all of my nephews and my niece this weekend. They came and picked up our old table that we used in college for my brothers who are sharing an apartment this year down in College Station. It is still hard to believe that they are both in college now and that my baby sister, who was 5 when I went off to college, is now a Sophomore in HS. That makes me feel a little old.