Ski Season Banquet Weekend

The ski season wrap up party was a month ago, but since Alison and Bob skied on May 21, it seems fitting that this doesn't get posted until it really is over for the season.

Wrap up day is a very fun event where children are encouraged to dress up like bears,


or cows that hide behind monsters,


race a sibling,


and then beat their dad.


In the evening, we have a banquet where girls present fun cheers or songs about Freezing Feet. Fun!

Alice in Wonderland

Alison was in the musical production of Alice in Wonderland Jr at school this year. She had a lot of fun singing in the chorus, because the chorus was encouraged to ham it up and interact with the characters on stage.

She even got to wear a duck hat.



Her friend Jo was Alice. Jo is quite the singer and actress. She seemed to enjoy herself, too.


And when it is all over, we went to Dairy Queen. Does it get any better?

Spring Soccer

Even though skiing isn't over yet, Sarah has started spring soccer. Her team this year is wearing red, which she doesn't like so much.

This is from her first exhibition game, a couple of weeks ago. The weather is something we didn't like so much.



Yep, snow on the field. Gotta love Calgary in the "spring."

(Fortunately, that is all gone now and we are wearing shorts. With sweat shirts and wind breakers, but shorts on the bottom, which we do like. So much.)

The Ethans come to Lake Louise

Woo Hoo! We got to share the routines of our lives with the cousins from Winnipeg! They took some lessons and then joined us on the slopes of Louise for a few fun days making lots of turns!


Learning to ski was a snap!

I think they had fun.

We went skating at the Chateau, too!

K2 Westerns

To kick off Spring Break a little early, Sarah and I drove up to Jasper so she could compete in the K2 Western Championships. She was pretty excited about missing a couple of days of school as well as the race!


Jasper was lovely and springlike and the hill the kids raced on was very different from what they are usually racing on, which made for an exciting four days of racing. Most of the team was there, except for Emily, who went to K2 Nationals in Collingwood, and Carson, who went with his family to Hawaii.


It was a big weekend for Sarah's friend, Alex, who won a gold and silver medal. Sarah had three front page finishes and crashed in the first slalom run on the fourth day. Smart girl, however, volunteered to forerun for the afternoon races and pulled off the 2nd fastest time in the ladies' course and 12th on the mens. Not bad!

Flag Bearer

This is Alison carrying the flag at the Doug Meyers Race.

(She's the one in the yellow t-shirt! Just kidding! She's in the middle, holding back the crowd until the parade starts with her mighty, mighty pizza stance.)

I'm so glad other people had the chance to take pictures!

Mook-tastic

Alison has been a busy little ski racer over the past couple of weekends. She had some fun and had a few good runs. One run in particular inspired her buddies to create a whole series of Mookie-modified adjectives. My favourites included:

Mooktastic
Mooktacular
Mookariffic
Mookalicious

I didn't take any photos but another parent did. I have one of her with pink hair, just because.

Rustle tried to cheer her on.

Not exactly about skiing...

I have some photos to share of us at ski hills, but not skiing stories. Just trying to balance my life, a little.

We had a free ski weekend at Revelstoke in February, the only time all season the four of us have skied together. We also had some time with Rustle, who can, apparently, pull children down hill at the speed of fun.

Alison and her pal Erin took time to play in the snow on the deck.


This was the sign at the base of the lift at Castle Mountain. -50 with wind chill was no exaggeration.

Alien Mook

It was opposite day at school today. Since Alison is 100% convinced that she is human, she designed this costume to wear at school today.

What a girl!

Winter Insanity

I realize that it has been a long time between posts. Mostly it's been because we have been very busy with skiing. Tonight, however, training is canceled due to extreme cold, so I've found a few minutes to share.


Sarah has had a pretty good year. She did tweak her knee over Christmas camp and found a fantastic physiotherapist (through her fantastic coach) who helped her a lot. She was a bit tentative in her first race, but had some solid finishes in races since. She's really going for it and it's working for her!




Alison has had a good year, too. Her new shinnies from Gramma mean she's banging into those gates. She seems to like slalom a lot - maybe it's because she wears shinnies for slalom!



Rustle is still enjoying the amazing amounts of snow he gets to play in. Life is good for Rustle if there's snow.



Parents have had a couple of chances to ski together this winter. Just a couple, though.