Ski Day in Westcastle
Well the boys have been bugging me for years to take them skiing and we have been putting them off and putting them off. It is something that is never a priority for me and Kristi so we always have found reasons not to go. BUT, the kids really wanted to go and they had free passes so it was about time that we took them. So during the reading week break we decided to use one of the days to go skiing. Kristi is in no physical condition to ski (Prego), so it was up to me to take the boys on my own. That would have been easy, but Haydn wanted to bring 2 friends and then Karlee and Clieve wanted to go. So it was me and Haydn, Brody, Briggs Holland, Kade Powelson, Karlee and Clieve heading up to the ski hill at 7am.
Neither of the boys had ever skied before, so I was really worried about how the day would go with both of them. Haydn was dead set on snowboarder for his first time. We tried to talk him into skiing this first time and then snowboard another day, but he was having no part of it.
So we got all our gear rented and we were ready to go. Brody went up the hill with me the first time and when we got to the top of the hill he was crying because his feet hurt so bad because his boots were too tight on the sides. I thought to my self, "Oh great, this is gonna be a great day". So we went back to the lodge and put on a different pair of boots and they felt better. The boys each had a lesson that day from a instructor on the hill. They both skied and snowboarded better than I ever thought they would have. Brody was a champ and had no fear going down the hill. Brody and Clieve skied a lot together and Brody would go over little jumps and then head down the hill 100mph. I was scared a few times for him but he either recovered and slowed down or wiped out. On Brody's last run of the day he went down one of the big runs with all the kids. He did great.
Haydn wanted to snowboard so bad, because thats what his friends were doing. He did a great job and snowboarded on the big hill most of the day. His cousin Brad was there and he helped Haydn with a few tips on what to do and this helped him tons. Of coarse the boys wiped out a lot, but they both learned so much through out the day. By the end of the day Haydn was staying up on his board for most of his runs.
Sumo
Well a few weeks back Kim's dog Sumo was run over outside there house and was killed. This was probably the only dog that I liked so it was a sad day.
Kristi had some family from Japan that came over to visit for a week. They stayed with Donny and Dixie and they took them to Edmonton and Banff. We had dinner together a few nights and they seemed to have an enjoyable time with the family. The Girls really liked Tyson and it didn't take Tyson to long to warm up to them. When we had to leave Tyson wanted to give them a hug and a kiss haha. One of the girls really enjoyed music and played in a band back home in Japan, so I sent her home with some good bands that she had never heard of before. We brought the girls to the school so they could look around and sent them home with a couple Junior High T-shirts. They spent the last few days of their Canadian trip in Vancouver.
