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Water skiing in January

Yesterday was a day of a lot of firsts of skiing:

• first time I've ever seen a lifty use a squeegee (I didn't even know they had such a thing there!)
• first time I've ever seen water falling from the sky at the top of a mountain in January instead of the white fluffy stuff
  
• first time I wished I had had mini windshield wipers on my goggles
• first time my snow pants and ski coat have been soaked through
  
• first time I've had to wring out my ski gloves
• first time I seriously contemplated building a giant snow man in the middle of a run

Can you guess what was the cause of all this? Yep, rain. And lots of it. Despite the rainy conditions in the valley yesterday, we decided to go skiing anyway. We figured it would at least be snowing in mountains. And if not at the bottom of the mountains, it would for sure be snowing midway up. I have to admit, it was a little weird to be in my snow pants, carrying my ski stuff to the car when it was pouring rain outside. It was still pouring when we got to Deer Valley. Still hopeful, we strapped on our gear and headed up the mountain.



The snow was slow (anti-lock brakes!) and heavy, but quite entertaining. Perfect snowman snow. It was like skiing through mashed potatoes at the top of the mountain where it was STILL raining! And at the bottom it was literally water skiing. I've never seen anything like it in January.



And the rain made it hard to see--we needed goggle-wipers. So here's my plea: pray for SNOW!



Because the conditions weren't all that great, we made our own fun in snow. We even found our own personal hut.





After a few fun hours of being stubborn lovers of skiing, we were soaked through and getting cold. The temperature finally started to drop so the rain turned to slush. We became slush balls until we got to a lower elevation where we were just saturated spunges. For a die hard skier, it wasn't even close to a 10, but it was still fun.

If you'll look closely, you can see just how rain soaked we are. Hopefully it will be snowing the next time we go.

Enlightenment

Friday evening Joshua and I made an excursion to the Temple with a couple friends. We arrived at 6pm so we could do the 6:20 session. However, the rest of the valley must have decided to go to the Temple Friday night as well. I've never seen it so busy! They ran out of lockers for the women, so they gave us large dress bags to put our stuff in. We were initially told we were in line for the 7:40 session, but we made it into the 7:20, so that was good. The Temple is always beautiful and I love the spirit there. It's a little piece of heaven in the midst of this hectic world. I am always a little happier and little more at peace with life afterwords. When we came out of the Temple, it was super foggy! I can't remember the last time we had fog like this. So here's a pic of the Temple in the fog...makes for a pretty cool picture at night :)

Hair Cut Diaries

My friend Matt recently had a hair cut crisis, my story isn't quite as good as his, but it upset me. Sp this picture is me as of yesterday afternoon, I love my shaggy hair but I finally decided it was time to clean it up a bit. I think I might be a little weird but when I finally decide to cut my hair, I have to get it done, so later yesterday afternoon I went down the the 9 to 9 Barber Shop, I love that place because they shave your neck with a blade, and offer you a shoulder rub, awesome! So they barber finished cutting my hair, it looked ok in the mirror he handed me so he finished, cleaned my neck up good, rubbed my shoulders and I paid and took off.
Later that night I showered and washed my hair and looked in the mirror, it was ok, but I though it looked kind of funny because the top was longer than the sides of my head, so much so that it looked kind of funny, but not horrible. The real problem that made me sick was the back of my head. My neck looks like this:
rounded corners! I guess it really doesn't look that bad but I hate it! I have always had nice square corners and I liked it. If you look close you can even see kind of a different color where there has always been hair. The barber didn't ask me how I wanted so I just figured he was doing it the way it has always been done by ever body without having to say anything.

Long boarding

And I thought just being able to ride a long board was cool. Check this out!

Mac love

We love macbooks!

Back to School Sale

Well I know everyone else has already been at it for a week or more, but today was my first day back at the lovely U of U campus. Today was my first class, a Spanish class with the same teacher I had last semester, she annoys me to death but she is the only one that teaches the class, so what can ya do. Then I went to the book store to look for books, I ended up getting only two, because the book for one class isn't in yet and I'm confused about the book for another class, the crazy thing is for those two books I bought it cost 200 bucks! Ridiculous!
Although today was kind of rough I am trying to be optimistic and think the rest of the week and classes will be better.
Good luck to all of you in school, and to those of you who aren't in school as well, we all need some good luck sometimes.

Rain Theory

For a long time I have had a theory that all songs that are about rain are good songs. I talked about this idea with my buddy Shawn last night, and it only strengthend my belief that this is true. Think about it, Rainy Day from the Plain White T's, Rain King by the Counting Crows, Rain Falls Down from Ryan Shupe, Covered in Rain by John Mayer. The list goes on, Fire and Rain, a James Taylor classic, Bruce Hornsby and Mandolin Rain. It is even true from bands and genres of music that aren't usually your favorites, for example I am not usually a country music fan but Rain by Clint Black, and the Thurder rolls song by Garth Brooks.
Tell me what you think =)

Pow Pow

Yesterday was a great day of skiing!  Check it out!  http://www.skiutah.com/blog/deer-valley/pow-pow-powder-at-deer-valley/  Thanks Jake.

Fame

So my buddy Jake, Heather's cousin's husband, does some work for Ski Utah and took some of our new years ski post and put it on the ski utah blog. Click here to see.

Challenge

Did you know it is possible to turn a styrofoam cup completely inside out without breaking it? Well it is!

Happy New Year!

Today we went skiing as usual, I know big surprise, but today we got to ski with Uncle Scott which is always a treat. He mentioned how he and my other uncle Grant often check and read our blog, it made be feel bad for not making a post in a while so here it is.
It has been a great holiday season, we played with friends and family lots, and enjoyed all the snow especially. Christmas eve we spent with the Hanks' and had fun ice skating and eating and playing together, then we went to the Ragsdale's on Christmas day and did the same. Heather and I gave each other ski stuff.
The day after Christmas we raced up to Deer Valley because over night they recieved 28 inches of blessed powder! We skied hard all day and Heather got some great pics of me jumping of cliffs, and I even did a back flip and landed and skied away, but the batteries were dead by then.
That night, because we couldn't make it back to the Hanks on Christmas, we went over there to exchange gifts with Heather's parents. They gave a sweet little digital camcorder, the JVC Everio S, it is tiny and we have been taking it with us everywhere and making lots of ski movies.

On Monday Heather had to work so I went and played basketball with brother Clark, it was fun until I ended up spraining my ankle! Then that afternoon I went to Heather's work and we got lunch, we went to Costa Vida because she got a gift card there from work, just so you know Costa Vida is gross and Cafe Rio is WAY better. So because of my ankle I had to take a few days off from skiing, until yesterday and today which meant we didn't get to go over New Years, which is ok I guess. On New Years Eve we went and ate lil smokies and chips and dip and candy at my parents house, Clark had some friends over so it was a party. Me and one of Clark's friends, Joeseph spent an hour at least playing the tanks game on the new Wii, we wanted to get to level 14 but we both kept dying on 13, we were super frustrated. Heather finished making a scarf she had been working on for weeks.

I know this doesn't matter much to my wife but I have to give a huge cheer to our UTES! Last night was the big Sugar Bowl game against Alabama, it was awesome! Melissa, Heather's friend is moving down to Texas so her friends had a party last night so we had to drive down to Provo in a snow storm, but thank goodness the game was on when we got there and while all the girls chated all the guys watched the amazing game. GO UTES!

So we just want to wish everybody a happy new year and say good luck on all of your new years resolutions. Also, a shout out to my uncles, both want to be known as Favorite Uncle, but I can't call them that in front of each other or else that would turn one away which would mean less Christmas presents each year so I can't do that. (thanks for the presents both of you.)