Strong Community

I've been so impressed watching the F/M community pull together to protect their city. It's almost overwhelming watching the news. Thousands of people have spent tireless hours volunteering and a lot of them not even from the city. What an amazing act of courage and selflesseness.... my heart goes out ot them as they fight the flood together.

Hawaiian Day At Spirit

Jill and I spent the day skiing at Spirit Mountain during Hawaiian Day!! It was so beautiful outside- we didn't even wear a jacket!! We also did the water skipping competition where we skiied across a pool. Jill made almost made it across and I made it about 1/2 way. It was really fun... but took my boots like a week to dry out.

Farewell Domino

So my best friend Mary Ida got me hooked on the cutest magazine: Domino. I went online today to look at some things I found in the March issue and here's what I found:

It is with very heavy hearts that we say farewell. Over the last 4 years, in 28 issues, we have done our best to create a great magazine. We started with a real idea—that style is for everyone—and tried to carry it out with stories that provide inspiration and empower you to act on it. From your tremendous response, we know that we were onto something. In this tough economy, however, we simply weren't able to get the advertising support we needed.
As domino evolved, we never lost sight of our original democratic premise. Looking back at the manifesto we published in the premiere issue, the first tenet of domino is still the truest: Home should make you happy. We hope we have played a part in making this come true for you.

Love,

All the editors of domino

Let the Birkie capture your soul....

A few weekends ago Jen, Joey and I went to the American Birkebeiner ski race. We staying in a really cute cabin at the "Home of Famous Daves". It was in Hayward, WI which is such a fun town. We had a blast. We went for morning runs, skiied in the race and cooked on an antique stove. Check out our pics...

Joey getting ready at 5 am!

Joey Finishing the 50K race!

Waxing my ski's... the key to excellent race ski's is brushing your ski's until your hands fall off....

Anne and I holding the signs Jen made for us...

YAY- finished the 8K. I'm totally going to do the Kortelopet next year (25K).

Joey drives a FIT (Ronda the Honda).... so of course we had to take a picture with it!

We are really excited about our new trail shoes...

LOVE day!

This Valentines Day Robby and I spent together skiing across frozen lake superior along with 1200 other skiers!! It was an incredible event... with fun skiing, bonfire, tasty chilli, fresh brewed beer and a band. The ski was pretty fun... but the snow was still icy from all of the warm weather we have had. We sat on the ground in a huge heated tent when we were finished and enjoyed the chilli and beer.... who needs a classy restaurant on v-day when you can be in a tent outside :)

Book Across the Bay!

So today Robby' and I are skiing in our first cross country 10K ski race!! I'm super excited. The race goes across lake superior... yay for no hills! Robby will be competing against the classic skiers and I will be skating. Click on the link below to watch the video to see more about the race... it gets me so excited watching it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhAasp8MV9Y

Happy Belated Birthday to ME!

So... back in January I celebrated my 26th Brithday!! Yikes! It was really fun. We went out to this hippy restaurant and ate supper in what looked like a library (Mary would have loved it). And then went over to my friend Jen's for surprise cheesecake! It was really fun. Robby got me everything I need to wax my ski's...

Jen got me a bunch of fun things... wine and wine perserver (for camping)!! She also got me the start of a fun coffee cup collection. I LOVE having coffee at Katie and Aaron's because they have the most fun selection of coffee cups. I decided that i'm going to start collecting coffee cups... I hope to find some fun one's at thrift stores and rummage sales!