Monarch Ski Resort + Jenny on Skis = NEVER happening again!

Soooo this is the longest over due post EVER in the history of over due posts! What is wrong with me? I guess we've just had a lot going on the last few months and just haven't thought about blogging...so here it is...

Anyway so I mentioned in my last post that I was going to try out skiing. Scot LOVES to ski and has been asking me to go skiing with him probably since before we got married but I've always just sort of dodged the subject. I decided that after 5 years of marriage and 2 1/2 years of dating it was finally time to bite the bullet and just get it done all in the name of love. Everyone kept saying Monarch is so easy, it's a great place to learn and it's never busy. Uhmmmm...OK. We pulled up and I was like "WHAT IS THAT GIGANTIC MOUNTAIN?" Scot was like "It's nothing, it's nothing. That's not steep..." Uhmmmm OK...suuuure, whatever you say! So I strapped in to my boots, against my better judgement and slowly and akwardly trudged through the parking lot to meet the instructor for my lesson (Scot was ahead of me trying to get our lift tickets because we were running late and don't even think for a second that I didn't consider just running back to the car and hiding while he wasn't looking). After we paid and were all squared away we got to the meeting place and met the instructor and the three other people in my class. I will say 2 things: one is that one of the other people in my class left after about 20 minutes. One minute he was there on his butt with the rest of us and the next he had taken off his other ski and just started walking down the mountain without saying a word. I wanted to run after him and say TAKE ME WITH YOU! But I didn't...I figured that would be sort of creeper of me so I decided to go ahead and stick it out through the lesson... Two is that does anyone realize how stinking hard it is to get up after you fall down? I couldn't believe it. I nearly busted a gut trying to get up those 641 times...

Had I known how dumb I looked I would have left the camera at home. It's ok though, now I have proof that I did it and I tried and that I was there. So after the 2 hour lesson from Hades Scot found me stuggling to get the skis off with tears running down my face. I was DONE, DONE and DONE. He helped me take the skis off and we went in to the lodge and had some lunch and hot chocolate (I was in heaven). I told Scot that I would be sad if he didn't go back out and ski for another couple hours but that I think I had had enough adventure for the day so he did and luckily I brought my trusty book (just in case) and I got to sit in the lodge by the fire and a window and read and people watch. I LOVED it...until the little girl at the table next to me puked all over the floor (lots of people get altitude sickness)...that, not so much fun. Anyhoosie, here is what Scot did...

All in all, despite the DRAMA RAMA (all me) it was a really fun day with my hubby and I'm glad I did it. I have now confirmed my fear of adventure, my dislike for being cold and wet and my unappreciativeness (today this is a word) for speed and danger.

Also, here is my PSA for this sport WEAR A HELMET, no joke. I feel like it is essential. They make really cute ones that can match all your gear and I think everyone needs one. Anyway...just sayin'.

Love you all and I plan to be more exciting and have things to post about in the future!

Daycation

Yesterday Scot and I went on a little daycation. A few weeks ago we decided to go up to Breckenridge for their Snow Sculpture competition. We had never been before but had heard really great things about it so I really want to go and check it out! It was such a fun day, we just wish we had been able to stay there a little bit longer than a few hours! Here are pictures from the day...

As we were pulling in to town we saw these wind surfers! They are wind surfing on ice and snowboards! We thought this was really cool.

I kept telling Scot we were going to see ice sculptures but they were really snow sculptures. These were the only ice sculptures they had but they were still really cool!

This sculptures was created by a team from Mexico. This was one of Scot's favorites! Here it is from the front...

And from the back...

A couple more that weren't our favorites but still very impressive...Each sculpture starts out as a 20 ton block of snow that is created from snow from the ski resort.

The Polar Bear was one of our favorites!

Here is the lady from the front. She even has a comb in her hair.

Here she is from the back.

The one behind us is a man playing a violin but as you can see, we are blocking him. Whoops.
Overlooking all the sculptures...

Part of the ski resort and a sign that says thin ice, do not cross. Clearly people listened and decided to walk across the ice anyway! Duh!!

After we walked around downtown and ate dinner at the "Pizza Parlor" in this really cool old victorian house we went back to see the sculptures all lit up at night. They looked really beautiful in the light and it was a lot easier to see the details...

We really liked this one obviously!
On the way back to the car we stopped at a little cafe and bought chocolate chip oatmeal and peanut butter cookies with hot chocolate to drive home with! Yum! The perfect ending to a really fun day!

I think our next daycation is going to be skiing. I'M SCARED! Stay tuned for how that goes in a couple weeks!

It was a VERY Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!...

a little late but none the less we hope that you all had a very Merry Christmas. We had a great Christmas here in Colorado Springs with Scot's family. It was really fun to get to spend time with them and we both feel so blessed to have such wonderful families that we love so much. We took exactly NO pictures (lame) except for the annual Christmas Day picture that I make Scot take with me...

Oh and on Christmas Eve Scot made these super cute treats to take over to his parents house...Don't I have such a fun and talented husband?

Scot and I love this time of year, it reminds us of all of our blessings and how lucky we are and it brings us closer to those that we love the most. We hope you all had a Merry Christmas with your families and that you all have a safe and Happy New Year!

Thanksgiving Vacation!

Scot and I had a FANTASTIC Thanksgiving! I will spare you ALL the details since I took over 150 pictures but here are the highlights...

The week started out a little rough with Scot getting sick. He was feeling OK the night that we left but by Thursday he ended up huggin' the kleenex and clinging to the Nyquil for about 3 days...poor guy.

I woke him up in time for dinner on Thursday. He was a good sport.

On Saturday night we met up with my good friend Lisa and her husband Bryce for dinner at BJ's Brewhouse. It was really fun to catch up and eat good food!

On Sunday we left Sac Town for the journey down to San Diego. No trip to Southern California is complete without a trip to Pea Soup Andersons. I actually don't know why we put ourselves through it though. Let's be honest, the place is NOT good! Oh and why do they make those holes for your head so HUGE???

We stayed one night in San Diego and then on Monday we jumped on the ship for our cruise! There was lots to do on the ship so on the first day my dad and Scot played a couple rounds of mini golf while my mom and I TRIED to lay on the deck and read but it was wayyyy too cold!

One night during the cruise there is always an elegant evening in the dining room where people dress up for dinner.

Our first port of call was Catalina Island. Sooooo beautiful. Some port docks are not large enough to handle a cruise ship so they ancher out and you are tendered in. Here we are on the tender boat.

Here is our big ol' ship as we drive away on the tender boat.

One of the things we did on Catalina Island was go on a glass bottom boat. It was a blast. We were even able to feed the fish so they would come up closer to the boat!

Scot was hungry and I didn't have any snacks for him so I told him to eat the fish food. It's au natural. The really funny thing is that, that girls hair looks like the food is really coming out of the package. Ha ha ha ha.

Catalina Island is sooo dang cute. People that live on the island mostly drive golf carts so we rented one to see the island a little better. We had such a fun time even though it was insanely cold!

Our 2nd Port of Call was Ensenada, Mexico. We took this really fun tour where our first stop was to this old hotel/casino. They don't really use it for that anymore but they do hold a lot of weddings and parties in this large room behind us. It was a really beautiful place. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez used to come there and stay. Pretty cool.

Here is Scot in the square where we shopped for a little while.

After a 45 minute bus ride our next stop was La Bufadora or the Blow Hole. It's a natural phenomenon where water rushes in to these caves and when the pressue becomes to be too much there is no where for it to go but up so it explodes every 60 to 90 seconds. Something like that :).

There was also an open air market there which was really fun and you could get some neat things there. I may have gotten ripped off but I totally don't care because I got what I wanted and it looks real to me...

Here we are on the last night of the cruise at dinner with our waiter and his runner. We had the best waiter and runner on the ship! Their names were Embry and Emil. They memorized our names and joked with us. We loved them. For the first three nights Scot ordered the Chocolate Melting Cake for dessert but on the last night he decided to order the Apple Pie. As soon as he was done eating his Apple Pie Emil brought him the Chocolate Melting Cake because it was the last night. So awesome!

Time to go home. On the last day you have to be out of your cabin by 8am so we just went and sat on the deck with all our luggage. I look like I'm shooting myself in the face but I was actually wipping a tear. Ha ha ha.

After the Cruise it was pretty nice because we were able to drive back to Sacramento with my parents and spend a couple more days with them. We ended the trip with a visit to Zehnders. See THIS post for what that is. I heart cotton candy shaved ice. It makes me feel like a kid again.

This was a such a great trip! We hated to see it end!! Alright Mom and Dad, start planning for Hawaii!