Filler post

I've tried a few times to upload some videos of Alison's last day of skating with no success. While I try to figure out why these videos are being such a pain to load, here are a couple of random shots from the last couple of weeks to let you all know that we are continuing with our busy, busy life.

Here is the best dog in the world trying on a lei to amuse his girls.


Here is one of the cute little koalas at the Calgary zoo, doing what he does best - sleeping off a self-inflicted drug-induced stupor from a diet of toxic plant.

Mooke

Another post from Alison in which she sings a soon-to-be-classic, "I'm awesome" is up on her blog today.

The Sound of Music

For Gramma and Auntie Daphie's latest milestone birthday, we all flew to Toronto for a whirlwind weekend to see "The Sound of Music" at the Princess of Wales theater. It was all very exciting, but time just flew by.

The show was pretty amazing. Half the fun for the kids was in getting there.

We saw Nancy Greene's star on the Walk of Fame, posed here with a real life Nancy Greener:


The little girls wore matching outfits:

Emily, Caitlin, Alison and Mackenzie.


The grand entrance:





And if all that wasn't fun enough, Mary and Ed and the boys came down for a visit....

Whirlwind weekend

I've got lots of photos I wanted to post about our weekend in Toronto.




Happy Birthday, Di and Daph! We love you!

Ski Season Banquet

It was almost a month ago, but we did wrap up the ski season with a fabulous banquet at the Chateau Lake Louise. After some head to head racing with teammate against teammate and kids against parents (that image in the paper may just be from the race where Sarah beat her Dad...) we all headed to the beautiful hotel for a silent auction, a feast, and presentations from the coaches.

Some photos from the evening:


Some of the silent auction items that caught Sarah's eye. She took several pictures of these, but didn't bid on them.

This is Cleodie, one of Sarah's teammates, with Brody, Sarah's coach's son. The next day, Cleodie hit a bump funny on Easy Street and fractured her T-6 and T-8. She is recovering well and has kept in good spirits, but it was a tough way to end the ski season.

Coach Higgy, joked freely with (and about) each of the kids on the K1 team.

Alison joined her coach and this group half way through the season, and improved significantly.

Look Who is in the Paper!

The Banff Crag and Canyon did a little write-up about the end of the ski club season and included a couple of photos. The lead photo is of a 16 year old girl whose name they've misspelled, and there's another uncaptioned photo of a skier we'll all recognize - Sarah!

Here's the screencap:


The reality is we are still skiing with the club this weekend, and possibly up until May 10. I still haven't uploaded our banquet pictures from the weekend, but since I'm home sick today, guess I can get on that. Stay tuned!

Flying around the Lake

We just received these photos from Sarah's coach. His email said:

Here's a few pics of your little girl flying around the Lake.
Higgy.

This is what he means:

K1 Finals in Panorama

This past weekend was the last race of the season. It was held at Panorama, BC, where friends of ours have a condo and graciously invited us to stay. As it was part of our spring break, we had a couple of extra days to just hang out and even free ski with Sarah.


The race course was incredibly icy, just like it will be when Sarah skis in the future. Once again, Sarah's best event was the slalom, where she finished 24th. Her friend Emily was first overall and made Team Canada for the Whistler Cup next month. We'll be cheering her on!

Some photos....
The girls, minus one (Alex, Angie, Sarah and Emily)


The boys, minus 2 (Nick, Carson, Tristen)

Mantracker! (Coach Trevor)

Update: Mooke's blog

Alison has posted on her blog. For her readers who have been waiting an extraordinarily long time for an update, you will find her post extremely familiar if you read my tribute to Rustle's birthday....

The never-ending cycle

Just as ski season is beginning to wind down (Tuesday and Thursday night training is no longer possible at Canada Olympic Park), soccer season is getting underway. No rest for weary (or wicked) moms....