Anna celebrating her successful race in Breckenridge

I spent the entire weekend with Anna in the mountains. We drove up Friday night and went to Anna’s favorite pizza place and then ice skating on Keystone Lake. Saturday, we were up bright and early for ski team. It was a cold day but Anna was toasty warm she said. I joined her for a few runs after ski team ended at 3pm and she took me on some really challenging black diamonds.

One of Anna’s closest friends at school is Reed. His family has a place in Breckenridge so we stayed there Saturday night. It meant we could sleep in a little later but it was still another early start to be there for the race meeting at 8:15am. It was a bitterly cold day, I think it was the coldest day of skiing I have had in over 20 years. The high was 11 and there was a 30 mph wind blowing. But Anna was a trooper the whole time.

She had two runs down the race course. The first run she was really pushing it hard and fell going over the jump. The second race, which I recorded below, she started slower and made adjustments and finished the race well.

Reed and his dad came to watch Anna race and we skied with them most of the day. It made for a really fun day that was about more than just the race. It was quite a long weekend away from home, we didn’t arrive back until 6pm Sunday night.

Meanwhile Jude stayed in Denver and chilled at home quite a bit. Our old neighbor Graham came over on Saturday, and Sunday he spent quite a bit of time with our current neighbors. Otherwise, he and Marcy watched movies and old Star Trek episodes. The original show is currently on Netflix and both kids are enjoying it.

Jude going up the climbing wall

Both kids had the past week off school so Marcy organized quite a few activities for them both. Earlier in the week they went to a climbing wall again.

Finally, Marcy took this cute photo below of the two of them watching Youtube videos. It was nice to see them getting along as that has been somewhat rare lately.

Watching YouTube videos on Marcy’s iPad