Winter is here at last!  We've had a few dustings but today it snowed all day.  I couldn't wait to go drive in it.  There's nothing more fun than going to a big open area and making the car slide.  Ah hem... within the laws, of course, wink, wink. 

We spent last weekend at Bruce's mom's ranch, but not before we hit the slopes for a day.  We had a great time.  Chris got to drive the ATV and work on learning to shift a clutch.  Wowee!  He kept it in first gear, and we kept it tame, but it was great fun for him.  We went to see a rock structure called The Window.  It was a fun hike up to it, but the view from it was fantabulous.  On the other side was a magnificent view of the Sangre De Christo mountains at dusk, when they become blood-red as the name says.  Then we saw wagon tracks ground in the rocks back in the wild wild west days from carts making thousands and thousands of trips over them, loaded with timber and such.  The trip ended with an unexpected mechanical breakdown, resulting in a fun ride on the top of a flatbed tow truck.  We were on TOP OF THE WORLD!  Chris and Jon thought it was SO COOL.  We had to stay in a hotel in Alamosa, CO and they had to miss school on Monday, making their Thanksgiving break six days long!  The good Lord was watching out for us, because there were some seriously bad road conditions just ahead of us when we broke down due to a winter storm.  I think that we would have seen some less pleasant excitement had we continued.  Ice and trailers do not work well together anyway.  Thank you God for watching out for us!

I'll try to put some photos below.

We watched a movie tonight about snowboarding...  the kids are dying to ride this weekend.  I'm looking forward to it.  I cannot wait to be better at it.  It will take a little more work for the "old lady" to keep up with the young pups.  lol!  I think Bruce and I are going to sneak off tomorrow while the boys are in school for a little lesson.  I can pretty much make it down the slope without falling, maybe once, so I'm getting better but I'm still only riding the back edge and I need to learn to ride both sides.  I'm going to do it, though.  Then I'll study all night.  Both kids are interested in learning the half-pipe.  The jury's out with me learning the half-pipe.  One step at a time.