Easter 2010

Ready to go!

The Hunt!

The Easter Bunny's handy work!

Surveying the loot!

The next two pictures demonstrate the difference in my two boy's personalities.



Wyatt, organizing the loot so he can save it for later.

Gerrit, devouring the first piece of loot he can find and eating all his candy in 2 minutes.

It was a blessed Sunday celebrating Christ's resurrection!!!

Wyatt's 1st Ski Lesson

WARNING: Way too many pictures posted below by over enthusiastic mother!

Wyatt went to June Mountain for his first ski lesson. He took a group lesson and then took a run with his dad.

Getting ready to head up the chair to the June Mountain Chalet.



His Olympic shot. "Peace"

Instructor Dan

After getting used to his skies and walking up the carpet Wyatt is ready to take his first run.

Mid-run

The finish! Look at that smile.




Moving onto the bigger hill. This is the "magic carpet". It is a moving walk way that takes the kids up the hill. Let me just say that they did not have these when I was learning to ski.

Going down the big hill!

(Sorry, the next two pictures are out of order.)


The Crash



Still has a smile on his face.

Going down.

Three generations of skiers!

All together, showing Wyatt what to do.

Riding up the chair with Dad for his first "real" run.

Getting off the chair.

Skiing down!

It was a very fun day!! Wyatt did great and enjoyed learning to ski. The hardest part was learning how to wedge to slow down. Wyatt didn't want to slow down. He wanted to go straight and fast.

Winter Camping

We set the tent up in the living room last night so the boys could "camp out".

They were so excited they couldn't stand still for the picture.

Getting tucked in.

Still playing!

Playing with their flash lights. The room was totally dark and the only thing you could see was their little lights shinning through the tent. They had the case of the giggles.

Finally asleep!!!

Pancakes for breakfast.

The best part about this camping trip is that Mommy got to sleep in her warm bed and wake up to a warm house and fully supplied kitchen for cooking! We need to do more living room camping!

Don't Smoke

Here is another story of one of our encounters with out of town guests. It is a little sad and a little our fault too.

When Jeremy woke up this morning he found that is phone had 5 messages. Last night he and I went to a meeting. We forwarded the Wildflower phone to Jeremy's cell phone. He put it on vibrate. Well, after the meeting we forgot to take it off forwarding and vibrate. Last night starting at 10:45 pm a man and his girlfriend who were staying at Wildflower, but not in a unit that we rent or give keys out to, went out for a cigarette closing the door of their unit behind them. They took NOTHING with them, to include jackets, snow boots or the key to their condo. The door was still locked. Being locked out, they headed down to our office. We have an emergency phone that you can use to call us. We also have the phone number to every reservation company in town posted outside. There is one company known for their lack in customer service. Of course the unit that these poor people were staying in is with that company. We could have helped them but of course we were sleeping away while Jeremy's phone vibrated.

At 7:30am when Jeremy got his messages he was telling me that these people had called until 11:45pm and left messages. We felt very bad and wondered what they had ultimately done. Hoping they had gone to their reservation office where they had picked up their condo keys, and where an emergency phone is located for that company, we went on with our morning. At about 7:45am I went out to the office and opened the door. There sat this poor couple in our laundry room (located off the office entryway) with the heater on high and sitting on phone books. They had found no one (meaing reservation companies) to help them and spent the night in the laundry room.

Lets consider the options they would have had. They were locked out with nothing. They had a phone and a phone book. After a few hours of not reaching the reservation companies I personally would have used the phone book that I was sitting on to reach a lock smith. Two of the three in Mammoth answer emergency calls. Or how about 911??? The man did mention he had a condo key in his car and had tried to break the windows to get in. Here is an idea, AAA or just a local towing service that could have come to unlock the car. They all answer emergency numbers.

Yes, Jeremy and I should have been available, on our night off, to answer an emergency call. We are truly sorry and feel very guilty, but the resourcefulness of this poor couple was lacking. The moral of the story? Don't smoke, you might get locked out all night and have to spend it sitting in a laundry room on top of phone books that you aren't smart enough to use to get out of your situation.

30 AAHHHHH

It finally happened. I turned 30. It wasn't so bad. I had a fun day skiing on June Mountain with with Jeremy and his parents. It was a BEAUTIFUL day. The only kind of day I am willing to go skiing on.

I received gorgeous flowers from the Greywoodes and Mombergs. Thanks guys.

I also had a wondful dinner with my family at my parents!

Over all 30 isn't so bad.

200 lb 4 year old (oh, he is really 17?)

Very blurry picture of the before for the tale that follows

Split bed after the tale that follows.

Bent screws after the tale that follows.

I have decided that I will start telling some of the tales of the tourists that come and stay with us in Mammoth. We have said for years that we should document these things and we haven't yet, so here is a start.

This week we had a group staying with us from Canada. It was three mothers and nine teenage boys. They had flown into Mammoth for a ski competition. They had two units at two different condo projects. We picked them up at the airport and even drove them a couple of other places because they didn't have a car. Very polite woman with very obnoxious teenage boys.

The first night they are here one of the boys, who is 6 feet tall and 200lbs decides to jump from the top bunk of one of the beds onto the neighboring queen bed. Now, this bed happens to be in one of our nicest units. The owners have spared no expense in remodeling it and furnishing it. The queen bed is beautiful with solid poplar wood head board, foot board and frame. This is not a cheap, old, hand me down bed. This is a nice bed that I would not be able to afford to purchase for myself.

Upon landing on the queen bed the boy smashes it into several pieces, splitting the frame, the wood slats below and ripping the bolts from the head and foot boards. Now, you might think that the boy would be so horrified that he just smashed this bed, felt so bad about it, and regretted doing it that he would have called our company right away to report this horrible thing that had happened. Or, maybe the adult who (later admitted ) saw this boy jump and smash the bed would have felt responsible to report the damage. Oh no, not until the next afternoon, after trying to sleep on the broken bed did they decide they couldn't really sleep well on the bed so they would have to tell someone so they could fix it.

Jeremy responded to the call. When he got there the adult was not home but three teenage boys were there. Jeremy had to coax the story out of them because he was not going to accept that this nice hardwood bed would just simple break while they were sleeping. Once the truth was out, Jeremy moved the mattress to load up all the pieces and take them out of the unit just to see if there was anything to do to fix this. of course the bed can not be fixed. While moving the mattress and sheets Jeremy noticed that everything was wet, stained and sticky. "What happened here?" he asked. After trying to beat around the question Jeremy told the boy that it would be best if he would just tell the truth so we can have it cleaned properly. So, deciding this sounded fair the kid admitted to falling asleep in the bed with a Coke and of course, the entire thing spilled all over the bedding, sheets, mattress pad and mattress. Who does that?

Today the group checked out. The maids called to say that there was also a broken picture and that they were taking the bedding down to the local laundry mat to have everything washed. I went to the unit to get the broken picture. They had duct taped the glass and hung the picture back up. Like we wouldn't notice.

So, the boys mother is bailing out her son with her credit card so we can replace the nice things in the poor owners unit.

But seriously, who does that? My four year knows better then to jump on a bed, and especially not to leap from the top of a bunkbed down onto another bed.

Snow

Here are some pictures of the snow on the first day of the storm. It was falling so perfectly with no wind. This is from our living room window.

Same shot from our window but now the snow is so thick you can hardly see down the street. This is still with no wind.

Jeremy blowing snow after the first wave of storms.

Before the storm picture of our sidewalk leading to our front door.

Midway through the storms with the boys playing on the sidewalk leading to our from door.

Our sidewalk looking from the front door after the storms ended.

Before.

After

We really only got about six feet of snow and we never got the high winds like Southern California. As many of you looking at this know, we have seen much worse about 5 years ago. Still a good storm.