casey post #9 Best Snow on Earth

It snowed 3 days this week! Thursday night it snowed a few inches in the mountains, and skiing on Friday was the best this season and maybe the best I have ever skied on. Or I might have not had the best snow this season so when there was actually awesome snow everywhere it was just heaven. I loved the powder and even though I fell a little more than usual it was so much fun to fall in fresh, powdery snow.

Kimber liked it too, but not as much as I probably because it was impossible to see sometimes going down because it was still storming/snowing at the top of the back mountain. It was crazy! We are glad to enjoy this last winter here in Provo with the mountains and season passes for skiing/snowboarding. Having Season passes to ski is probably one of the best investments for our happiness in the wintertime over our college career at BYU.

We are happy to go to Arizona this upcoming weekend to celebrate Kirk and Whitney's Wedding! Of course I will buy some snow from a little place called Bahama Bucks because it is the best place to eat a snow cone!!! We are excited to see family and be in a more warmer climate for a weekend so that will be so much fun!! Congrats to Kirk and Whitney it will be exciting to see you guys in white!

skiing vs snowboarding

 
 

i tried skiing again last friday for the first time in about 10 years!

i've kinda been wanting to learn how to ski again for awhile now.

i love snowboarding, i really do,

it's just that when you're with a bunch of skiiers and you're the only boarder, it's just easier to ski like everyone else.

and it's nice to know that you can easily do both.

so i borrowed a friend's set of skis and we went up to sundance for the day!

luckily it was decent snow.

it was actually way fun!

it was like going up to sundance for the first time all over again.

i knew the trails but it was a whole different experience,

you know, the whole, "am i gonna fall or not" feeling etc.

i picked up on it pretty quick surprisingly, and didn't fall for a long while.

once we got to the back mountain, i fell THREE times on the same spot everytime we went down the mountain.

i'd lie if each time i fell i didn't get all huffy and puffy and upset and cry, ha.

after about the first 5 seconds of being mad, i laughed at myself of my stupidity!

why the freak was i crying? it was my first time skiing!

i just didn't want to fall, it did make it worse that it was the same spot.

other than those 3 falls, i did pretty darn well, i'd say, for my first day.

not much pizzaing over here, rock on kimber!

let's get to the important stuff here.

snowboarding vs skiing.

what's better.

i've compiled a list of pros and cons for you all:

skiing is easy to first learn and catch onto.

snowboarding is hard to first learn and catch onto.

skiing is harder to get really good at.

snowboarding is easy to get really good at.

skiing has way more stuff you have to carry: TWO poles and TWO skis, it gets a little hard to carry.

snowboarding has ONE thing to carry, it's easy.

ski boots are heavier than snowboard boots.

it's hard to fall skiing.

it's easy to fall snowboarding.

when you fall skiing, it's like a train reck.
when you fall boarding, it's no big deal.

it's super easy to get off a lift in skis.
it's super easy to fall getting off the lift on a snowboard.

it's hard to inch down the mountain in skis.
it's easy to inch down the mountain on a snowboard.

it's hard to go down really steep mountains on skis.
it's easy to go down really steep mountains on a snowboard.

it's easy to always be in control on skis.
it's not as easy to learn to always be in control on a snowboard.

you pretty much never sit down skiing.
you pretty much always will have to be on your bum at some points of snowboarding (ie- putting your strap on or waiting for others.)

i'd say those other the major points i learned from the day.

will i ski again?
yes

will i snowboard again?
yes

over and out!

and the end picture of the cupcake?
that was my reward for skiing for the day.

everyday joy.

sooooooooooo

a little bit of life lately,

shall we?

1. when the cutler family came up for the farewell last weekend, they were able to come up a day early and go SKIING with us! yahooo! it was a blast with them. a little on the way cold side so only 1 picture that day. tay is rockin the whole snowboarding thing, and mom and dad c are excelente skiiers. lil karlee jo is still on the learning phase and let's just say skiing is not her most favorite thing in the world. the back mountain had some great snow and we just had fun being a family of skiiers/boarders that day!
2. yay for no school mondays and time to make german pancakes for breakfast!
3. kimber enjoying casey's birthday freebies at texas roadhouse.
4. casey enjoying casey's birthday freebies at texas roadhouse.

1. working at the library after it's closed. 1st floor view to the top.
2. working at the library after it's closed. 3rd floor view
3. this is casey's locker at work.
4. this is kimber's locker at work.

1. we're on the ward's intramural intertube waterpolo team.
2. it's pretty dang sweet.
3. sewing class. everying feverishly working on samples and assignments. i love that class so much.
4. working on my skirt in sewing class!

a ski day way better than our normal ski day.

we had the most wonderful ski day yesterday.

can anyone say canyons?

oh my heck, after skiing up there for one day, casey and i were yelling/asking ourselves why we don't have season passes up there?????

holy hannah, talk about 10 bajillion times better skiing than sundance.

it was incredible.

it was a legit ski resort, it had this whole village at the bottom with shopping and nice restaurants.

the actually skiing was crazy expansive.

we pretty much never went up the same lifts twice the place was so big.

the runs were awesome with dang good snow for how little snow we have gotten this season.

we were in heaven.

and what made it best, was the COMPANY!

some family members of casey's came down from montana!

they had whole week of skiing in park city and we got to join them for a day.

all 4 kids were totally awesome skiers, even little 7 year old kayla rocked it out there,

i was amazed.

and having a big group go skiing together,

where everyone is good,

and sticks together,

was just so spectacular.

we loved every moment.

let me tell you something crazy.

there was one lift that had SEAT WARMERS!!!

SEAT WARMERS on a ski lift!

haha, we were laughing bc we couldn't believe it.

they also had this bubble type thing that came over you so you got nice and toasty inside.

above:
bottom left: bryce was SQUISHED with 2 other random kids on a ski lift due to how the chair worked, funniest thing ever looking back at him.
bottom right: one of these isn't like the others...not gonna lie, that day i wished i was skiing so i wasn't the only boarder, ha!

we seriously had the best time together.

family makes everything better.

we loved every minute.

a GINORMOUS thanks to Kert and Catherine for inviting us to go up with them.

tip: if you come to utah to ski, spend the extra money and get your bum up to the canyons.
worth every penny.

after a LONG awesome day of skiing,
we went back to their little condo, had a yummy dinner, and just talked with the family
so wonderful to hear all their stories of med school and family times.
so much for us to look forward to still in that area!
such a loving family.
we are very lucky to call them thus:)

goodbye january, hello february!

oh my heck!

can you believe january is gone and february has come?!?!

we were walking to school yesterday, and were gawking over the fact that we've FINISHED 1 month of our last semester already!

wowza.

this is my last ode to january 2012 in provo, ut.

(cue 1 tear trickling down face).

1. 1st ski trips of the season: some awesome days (remarkably with what little snow there is) and some terrible ones (not surprisingly, again, cue large goose egg bruise on both knees from sheets of pebbled ice)
2. finished my 1st project in sewing class: pajama pants!! (mom, aren't you proud!?). sewing class is awesome.
3. lots of toast with butter, sliced avocado, all sprinkled with a little salt: yummo.
4. the first time we ever cooked salmon

5. Meli dog. you only feed my need of wanting my own dog. thanks for being the best dog ever. don't ever die.
6. seeing tristan, lots. love that cute boy.

7. cousin/friend get together at Suz's.
8. mission friend get together where we all were laughing for hours straight. great group of boys, and a great group of girls those guys picked
(tim and kelly, yay for moving back to utah!
andy and kylie, flipping funny stories.
brock and emily, you two are perfect, get married, k?).
usually when you get together with other couples it's bc the wife thinks they would be a fun couple and the husband agrees.
usually the wives end up being great friends and easy to talk to and sometimes the husbands just don't mesh.
where in this situation, the guys brought everyone together and had all these happy memories with one another, and the girls just fit (like most girls always do).
twas great.
8 peeps around our small table is THE MAX, but it works!

9. little snow.
10. tons of cheap blueberries. ate those suckers like candy
11. watching debates, lots of them, GO MITT!!!!!
12. relief society super saturday which included a crepe class from the awful waffle woman herself!

what february will bring us:
1. casey's birthday!
2. valentine's day
3. cousin sleepover
4. snowshoeing
5. more skiing
6. game nights
7. the last month of scott and megan in utah :(
8. leap day!!!

we love powder!

sundance got about 2 feet of fresh powder before we went up there.

it was BEYOND AWESOME!

skiing in snow up to our knees was totally normal that day

and at some places where people don't go as much, it was up to our thighs!

pure delight!

we didn't take many pictures while we were out there bc it was kinda on the cold side.

parts on the back mountain were SO WINDY too!!!!

there were times when there was little to no visibility on the back mountain

sometimes it felt like we were skiing/boarding blind!

we did take a few pics at the end when we got close to the car
(the 2nd pic is casey up to his waist in powder!)

 
our last run down though i literally biffed it like 5 times (that's more than last season and this season combined! ha)
i don't know what happened, i just suddenly forgot how to snowboard!
casey was lucky to see all 5 and laugh his bum off :)

later that night we went to in-n-out, yum.
went to a byu men's volleyball game.

and then went to coldstone.
(can you guess what i got? somethings with oreos! cake batter:)

then we video chatted with some siblings pretty much the rest of the night!

right now we're watching the BYU v SDSU game
go jimmer!!!!!!!!! (he's just so fun to watch!!!!)
and eating our coldstone left overs while still in our pj's :)

two and a half hours later we went skiing...

so friday...

ski day right?

kind of.

we planned on going with my friend annalise from AG.

she came, to get us and coincidentally locked herself out of the car in our driveway...

and guess where the spare key was? in the car with her other car keys

(the paper below is her list of stuff to bring skiing, wrong day to be prepared)

talking to AAA: "ya, they're in the car"

so, a half hour later AAA shows up to unlock her car.

other than the fact that he was not the most curtious man ever and annalise told too many white lies and we looked like idiots, it went great!

after we loaded "all" our stuff into the car we arrived up at sundance about 45 minutes later, got ready with all our gear and boots on just to realize my snowboard had not made it into the car.

just dandy.
(annalise smiling away, me with a frowny face no snowboard and keys in my hand, casey with a frowny face
this is about 1 minute after we realized there was no snowboard in the car)

persistent me decided we were not going to waste our day and we drove another half hour back down to provo to get the board and another half hour up to sundance.

fun huh?

yeah we felt totally dumb.

but we did have a long time to catch up on each others' lives more than just what the blog tells.

other than the two and half hours part to actually go skiing, it was wonderful!

a few icy parts but a lot of pretty good parts and the wonderful weather made it worth it.

see you next week sundance!!!

ps- please stop raining and keep snowing!

1st day back...this time to the slopes

so, when making our schedules for this semester we were constantly thinking

"oh, can't take that class bc that's friday"

"can't pick up that work shift bc that's friday"

what's so special about friday?
friday=ski/board day :)
and today was the first day back at it

and the scenery on the way up was beautiful too!

we both agreed the weather was beautiful and the snow was seriously awesome!

like we've mentioned before, we love season passes bc then we can go up for just an hour or two and not be dead tired the next day!

skiing adventures

We had so much fun this last saturday!

highlights of the day included

{1} Aspen Grove reunion

{2} cross country skiing or at least the attempt of

{3} night skiing at sundance with the Cutlers!

Cross country skiing at AG!
we laughed so much!
neither of us were any good and we (mostly i) fell so much but even casey had his falls
the scenery was beautiful
we even got to see janell for a sec out there!
and the scenery was beautiful!!!!!
loved it!

then immediately after cross country skiing we went skiing up at sundance with the CUTLERs!

such a blast!

casey and i have been lucky enough to have season passes 2 years in a row now!

we have so much fun every time we go up there

we both agree that we are so much better bc we get to go every week :)

this was our first experience night skiing at sundance and we approve.

although the back mountain was not open, it's still fun enough!

the company was the absolute best part!!!

the trip consisted of casey, kimber, mom c, dad c, derek, emily,

tayli, karlee, rachelle remsberg and her friend ryan!

ps- casey and i definitely slept 11 hours that night :)