Snowboarding 2014

What is a trip to Idaho without a day of snowboarding. Despite that there were only 12" on top and even less on bottom. We packed those boards. We were going to use them! Despite the lack of snow it was a fun day on the mountain!

Olsen Family get together 2013

What is Christmas without the Annual Olsen Christmas exchange? We got together a few days after Christmas so that everyone could be there. As always we had good food, good company and lots of fun. Starr even got to experience some of Mike's new found knowledge and he worked on Starr's back for quite a while. Good times for sure, I won't go on, pictures say it better than words anyway.

 Look at all those presents!

 Family!

 More family.

 Little Man wasn't feeling well, can you tell?

 Santa's cute little helper wouldn't turn around for me!

 And more family!

 Showing us his moves!

 What did you get Little Man?

 Uncle Shane doesn't want his picture taken.

 But we got a few when he wasn't looking.

Yes, You are cute!

 Little man and his favorite Uncle Shane!

 What is it?

 Everyone wants to help open presents.

We got another one!

Christmas 2013

We traveled to Idaho for Christmas. It was a much needed break for Mike and it was so good to be home and see family and friends! Little Man and I both got sick while we were there, which limited the people we could go and see, but it was still worth the trip. A HUGE thanks to our family who made it all possible! I really wish we hadn't packed the camera first while packing our car so I could have gotten a picture of what it looked like. There was literally no spare inches anywhere in the car. We were packed to the brim! Little Lou decided to cut one of her top teeth on the drive down and the other on the way home. That made for a fun 15 hours. We stayed with Mike's cousin in Utah both on the way to Idaho and on the way home, to break it up a bit and not drive the whole thing in one day.

 He's not quite fully awake yet.

 Nope, not yet either.

 Books!

 She's not quite awake either.

 She enjoyed watching Little Man open presents.

 Grandpa is so funny!

 New toys!

 Turbo! The snail is fast!

 Where's Little Lou?

 Just give me the paper and I'm a happy girl!

 Sick Little Man and Reefer the cat.

 Happy girl at Grandma and Grandpa's!

 Stuck girl!

Little Man found "Chapstick" in Grandma's girl box. AKA lipstick in the box he was told to stay out of because it was for girls not boys.

Snow in ABQ?

I thought ABQ didn't get a lot snow in the winter. We had a few storms before Thanksgiving, that resulted in a skiff of snow, delaying the whole city 2 hours, each time, but that was it, so I was very surprised when I woke up one morning to snow, and then it continued to snow all day and into the night. The snow here is very powdery. We tried on several occasions to build a "big" snowman, but were never successful. But we had fun, oh boy did we have fun.
In the past when it snowed, I was always up in the middle of the night plowing parking lots for work. So when I came home after working all night, I slept. I never really had the chance to play in the snow with Little Man...until now. We spent a lot of time outside playing in the snow. It was FUN! It was also really nice because the cold didn't stick around for long. The snow melted in like 2 days, but we got our play on while it was here!

 To give you and idea of how much snow we got.

 Seriously, he wanted to go out like this.

 Snow Angels!

 Yes, he threw this at me...

 He slipped and fell head first into the juniper behind him.

 My foot print, I think we ended up with about 8" of snow.

 He fell again, the snow was deep.

 He ran and ran and ran in the snow.

 He crawled in the snow.

 He ate the snow.

 He ate more snow.

 He is ready to come inside.

He took a picture of his bike because it was "full of snow."