Birthday Fondue Dinner

Last night, my roommate Jen and I hosted a little full-course, fondue dinner with my closest girlfriends for my birthday. It was so much fun! And I was actually successful at making the cheese fondue! Woo hoo! (From left to right: me, Ashlee, Janie, Jen, Jana, Lindsey, Camille and Linda)

Double the Fun Winter Weekend

Snowshoeing at night is super fun and it leaves all day Saturday saved for skiing! And that is precisely what I did this past weekend. Snowshoeing about 4 miles Friday night and then skiing on Saturday.
I love my life!

Snowshoeing was loads of fun. Until it started to get late - according to my body. I became so loopy! On occasion Potter, Lindsey's Great Dane, would step on my snow shoe and I would fall flat on my face and bust up laughing! But then I fell on my face numerous other times and I couldn't blame Potter for it. I must have accidentally spiked my Belgian Dark Hot Chocolate. :o)

Skiing on Saturday at Sundance was pretty fun! And guess what - I had my first ever celebrity sighting! Jed, Linda and I were eating lunch in the top lodge and I walked toward the back to use the loo and there was . . . . drum roll please . . . .Robert Redford! He was talking to someone and I walked right past him. He's pretty small actually. And we went back outside to commence our skiing again at the same time he did. Jed said he heard Robert talking about bringing Bono and his nephew up skiing next weekend. Yup, as in U2's Bono. I guess it all comes with the Sundance Film Festival that starts this weekend. Pretty wild, huh?

Tragic Christmas Recap

So this is my sad/tragic Christmas recap:

I went skiing the day before I drove home to Idaho at the Canyons . . . and .. . my ski buddy TORE HER ACL!!! Poor me, I know. I know. Tell me about it. Forget that she is out for the rest of the season and is scheduled for surgery this month and will go through weeks of painful therapy. All I can think is - I'm out a committed, and fabulous ski-buddy. Not to mention it all occurred at the end of a fabulous day of skiing. The snow was sooooo good. The bumps were phenomenal. Sigh.

And then two days before I was scheduled to drive back to Utah, my car gave me a scare. It wouldn't start!! So I had it towed to the Honda dealership and had it fixed first thing New Year's Eve morning. It ended up being the battery. That is definitely the most expensive battery I will ever pay for . .. but I knew I was paying for expediency when I took my car to the Honda dealership. Who knew that when the battery was low that it might have enough juice to turn the engine over, but not enough to recognize the microchip in my key and therefore activate the immobilizer in my engine and prevent it from starting? That would be my car thinking it was being stolen. Good little protective car.

Other than that, my Christmas was good. Family get together on Christmas Eve, as is tradition. Finger-food-lunch and tour of the grandkids' Christmas loot at my sister's house on Christmas day with a new, up-and-coming tradition of a full-course Fondue dinner that night. Went to the gym. Watched the Masterpiece Theatre edition of Jane Eyre with my sister. Going to the gym and shopping with my other sister. You know . .. that kind of stuff. Low key. Fun. Family. Just what a Christmas vacation should entail. :o)

(I wasn't very diligent taking pics during Christmas, so enjoy the shot of my 27-year-old, fuzzy Christmas stocking. Ha! I think it is almost as old as the pillow I still sleep on!!)