skiing with boys

been hanging out and skiing alot with little boys :) some cute ones in particular (yes I am so biased!) I've been teaching a group with Emmett and his friends from school. Today was the last day of all of them together. Some had made huge progress to catch up to the level of the others.... they are fun to ski with! and at the end I felt like the pied piper with them all behind me in a clump like this....at the top of one of the runs, all trying to stop and not go flying down the hill.... we did some skiing through brush gates and had fun.
later in the lodge......

and one a little bigger :)

what we see

This is all we see of Eli lately. The child is consumed by several things......

his Nintendo DS...and his books (he devours them)...
luckily we see this too...

fabulous bathroom

This is heaven.... (which is such a wonderful change because showering in our old bathroom was really unpleasant).

The first photo is looking into the shower area to the right, into the tub area....
the second photo is looking into the shower to the left, but it only shows one of the shower heads. There are two shower heads. So nice.... showering and bathing are now a luxury in our house.

and there is one more sink to the left of the one you can see in the photo below, and the doorway to the toilet is on the right.

almost done

with the bathroom... yeah!!! tiles have all been put in, even added some beach glass into the floor hidden amongst the rocks, as it is in Maine. Even our tile guy had fun picking out pieces to put in!

The light is great in the new space and I love it. I can hardly wait to actually use it. The plumber is supposed to be here next Monday to finish it, then hopefully it will be totally usable by Monday night! YEAH!!! now we just need to wait for the carpet to come in for the bedroom before we can move into there.

henna for the new year

I wanted something under my ski mittens.......

what a way

to start the new year......

I spent the last day of 2007 and the first day of 2008 on the slopes for 8 hours each day! How great is that?!

Sunny on the last day,
(the ski patrol shack at the top)

and snowing on the first...

(view out from the lodge during my lunch break- not much of a crowd)
I must say, I am loving my new job. The pay kind of sucks, but the perks, both physical and mental, are fantastic.

great evening

new year's eve... in Hartford for early fireworks with the boys. Meg and I took them to the 6pm fireworks.... then home to have great meat fondue with neighbors. It was a nice change since we usually make cheese fondue in my beautiful swiss pot.

I made a good variety of sauces for dipping. I had fun planning it out with Meg too, who then ended up missing out on the supper. I was bummed as she is my best friend and I had thought she was going to stay. ... but my neighbor friends made me laugh harder than I have in ages. What a night!

trying the tub

Everyone who comes over lately is coming to see the new bathroom. It is really coming along. Our tile guy, Ken, is slowly and meticulously working on making it a fabulous "wet room". The tub and shower area looks better every day. It seems that every night we are in there, after the tile guys are gone. I sat in the tub the other night after I was at skiing all day (and wishing it was working already!), and then made my friend Meg sit in it too. Adam snapped this photo of us hanging out.

colors galore

tried out a bunch of colors for the walls....
I like the darker tan.... but I think I am over-ruled, and we will go with the lighter one. The blue and the green didn't look right. The carpet will be a mossy green berber.

working with emmett

I got to ski with emmett on thursday. It was so much fun to work with him, and use my new skills as an instructor! Yeah! He did great. The mountain was really deserted, as you can see. You can also see, in the background, the little conveyor for beginners, where I will spend some time, before hopefully moving them on to more varied terrain.



We have had enough great snow already to really enjoy it this year!

new windows

they did the window change. so glad I pushed for it. It makes the room way better, in so many ways. It feels bigger, it is cozier, and also has a better place to put the bed.

sea of orange

I was just one in a sea of orange jackets. There were probably 100 of us or more doing our ski instructor training this weekend. 8 hours each day on skis, makes for one tired, but content, me at the end of the day.




There will be a repeat performance next weekend too. Then I will be able to fall into a regular schedule during the week of teaching while the kids are at school 3 days a week. so psyched for my skiing to get much better too!

beachy and beautiful

the tiles for the bathroom. I LOVE them!!!

the rocks will be on the floor of the shower/ tub area, the blueish green on the walls, and the beach glass in the alcoves. The area by the sinks will have a light bamboo floor.

need to fix

okay, here is the new master bedroom, and I don't like the windows.

They had to be put in low because of the roofline that needed to be matched. but it means I need to look at the neighbors' crap.
I don't want to have a great new addition, and not like the view. I just want natural light and maybe a good view of the cliffs behind the house. We have a pretty view of the lake out front. I just told our builder and now I am going to hunt for a few smaller windows to put up high. Then we can use the space below them better too. He said the fix should only cost about $500 to reframe. I think it is totally worth it to fix what could be a huge mistake.

This is the view in the bathroom....
I would like three windows across like this in the bedroom too....

the bathroom..... one big box, with seperate 'rooms' within. a 'wet' room that will be shower and tub (where the windows are), a room with a sliding door for the toilet( on the far wall), and a room that it all connects from for the sinks....