We Love the Olympics!

We have been watching the Olympics as much as we can afford to with a play going on, school and work. However, I have been loving every minute I have been able to watch. My favorites this year have been speed skating (Apolo), figure skating in all its forms, hockey, all skiing events (Bode and Von, oh and that ski jumper from Switzerland), nordic combined (yay for 2 silvers!) , ski and snowboard cross and of course Shaun White's mad skills . The biggest surprise so far is how much I have loved ice dancing. I had never really watched it and had always heard how cheesy it was and guys like to make the argument that it is not as athletic as other sports. It does have a more performance and artistic feel to it. Often many of the competitors were very cheesy and not all that interesting, however, the Canadian team and the US team of Davis and White caught my eye. The Canadian team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir were simply beautiful. Their free skate dance was so sincere, honest, graceful, and elegant. It moved me and was one of the best things I have seen thus far at the Olympics. Many people might not appreciate ice dancing, but should at least be able to watch this and feel something by watching it.

Here it is:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=b3b9fe59-1049-450c-827d-db4328c55050.html#canadians+dance+

The medal ceremony was also one of the best I have seen as well. The American team of Davis and White were also beautiful and rightly earned their place as silver medalist.

Well, enough about that.

Here is a picture of the Olympics shirt I got at Target, because i could not pass it up.

More Snow!!

We got more snow on Friday and Saturday. It stopped snowing around 1pm on Saturday and then the sun came out. So, here are a few pictures from yesterday. Enjoy!

Snow!

It started snowing late Friday night and this is what it looked like after I got back from rehearsal on Saturday morning.

It continued to snow all day.

On highway 60 going to Lexington

Tyler and I

We actually drove up to Staunton on Saturday night to see Dr. Faustus at Blackfriars with Megan and Seth. The roads were not bad at all and there was hardly anyone on the road. We had a lot of fun and the play was really good.

It continued to snow all night and they canceled church (the roads were really not that bad...). The next morning we woke up to this:

A beautiful sunny day and about a foot of snow!

Tyler and I took a walk in the woods behind Treemont and climbed to the top of the hill and had a picnic.

Our picnic site

The view from the where we were sitting

Eating lunch!

Drinking hot chocolate!

Beautiful!

Later we met up with Jessica and Ricky and went sledding down a nearby hill.

Jess

Ricky throwing snowballs

Skeleton style

Tyler

Ricky

A beautiful evening

We love the snow and beautiful Virginia.

Christmas in Oregon-part 2

After we got back from Spokane, we had Christmas with Tyler's family. We first had Christmas with Tyler's mom, Kim. She took us to lunch during the day and also took us to see Posy and Tink (our cats we had before we moved to VA).

Tyler and I with Posy!

With Posy and Tink this time

Tyler and Trevor, after we had opened gifts

Playing games with Kim, Kenny and Trevor

It snowed in Oregon! Not on Christmas, but still fun:

Jessica excited about the snow

My Mom

Tyler and I

My parents house in the snow!

Ian collecting snowballs to throw at Tyler and Erik

Unfortunately, we forgot our camera when we had Christmas with Tyler's Dad and family... So, I only have pictures of when we took Madi (Tyler's sister), Cameron and Emily (Tyler's cousins) skating:

Tyler and Madi at Skate World

Tyler taking Emily out onto the rink

The Gang

Cameron

We had a lot of fun skating with Madi, Emily and Cameron!

On Tyler's Mom's side of the family, his cousin, Casen celebrated her third birthday:

Cousins! Emma and Colbi (Casen's little sister)

Casen blowing out her candles

Emma and Casen

Casen holding up the little sweatshirt/dress thing we got her.

We are really glad we were able to go home and see almost everyone. We had a lot of fun seeing family and friends!

Now, we are back in Virginia and are doing great. School has started and we are busy with homework, plays and work. Until next time!