Thursday, March 31, 2011

dave's visit

Ok... This post is long overdue. Our friend Dave came out to visit us way back in February and he is requesting a blog post about his visit.  Apparently he does not care how many grad papers I have to write he would like me to write about him, so here you go Dave a post dedicated just to you!  We miss ya!

Dave is a friend of Marty's from back in Rogers City, MI.  Dave has been coming out to ski in Colorado since Marty moved here about 8 years ago.  Now he has to put up with me too when he comes out:)  Dave may be the greatest house guest ever... he shows up to our condo for a two week visit and there are boxes everywhere and our lives are in disarray because we were scheduled to close on our new house one of the weeks he was visiting.  Closing got pushed back till the 21st of February so Dave didn't even get to see the new house, he just had to live in the craziness of the condo for two weeks.

We had a great time skiing and hanging out with Dave.  Whenever he comes to visit he brings lots of snow.  We had quite a few powder days while he was out here, so Dave got to "shred the nar" on his new skis!  One of the weekends when Marty had a hockey game Dave and I and our friend Chris who was also visiting got a pretty awesome powder day at Highlands in Apsen.  Do you think I had the camera or flip cam...nope left them on the console in the truck cuz we were so excited to get on the mountain.  We had fresh tracks all day long.  We even got first tracks down my favorite run at the top of the Highland Bowl (have to hike about 45 minutes up a big peak).

Dave we love when you come to visit, so come back soon.  The "Dave Suite" will be ready and waiting for you in our new house.




This is your glory shot!

3 more weeks and couting!

After two long years of reading, watching videos, doing weekly discussions, and papers every weekend, oh the papers... I have 3 more weeks of graduate school!  It has been a long road, but I am really glad I decided to take on the challenge. Marty has been so supportive and has been a saint to listen to me read most of my papers before I submitted them.  Marty's encouragement throughout my whole program has been amazing, I don't know what I would do without him. I have learned a lot about teaching young children how to read and cannot wait to start applying the new things I have learned in my kindergarten classroom.  WhoooHooo, almost there!

I cannot wait to have me time!