a day of non-snowboarding

we went out to the intelligent design competition on saturday. it felt pretty weird walking on the slopes without hauling around snowboarding gear. i decided that i REALLY need to get out snowboarding again, and nick decided that snowboarding DOES look like fun, and he would like to go together some time.

lucy LOVED being out in the snow. it wasn't too cold, just enough for little hands and ears to get chilly. being little miss independent the way she is, she insisted on walking up the big snow hills herself. of course they are made for skiing and snowboarding, so they were pretty tough to climb, but she did it over and over.

ammon thought he was so cool and kept trying to "snowboard" down the mountain the way he saw the cool snowboarding guys do it. of course, he tennis shoes made this less effective. we really want to try and take him next year.

tommy czeschin was at the "verizon dome" waiting to meet people and sign autographs.

lucy got her turn too.

it was hard to see the whole course from any one spot. we pick the end to see the big tricks at the end. we could see a little bit of the half-pipe from where we were at.

shaun white was for sure the best one there. he rode faster and higher than anyone. it was pretty clear who the winner would be.

it was amazing to see shaun white do his stuff. you can see why they call him the flying tomato, and man!, did he know how to fly!

gold: shaun white, silver: charles reid, bronze: luke mitrani

nick and ammon with shaun white. by this time lucy had fallen asleep in my arms.

ammon with bronze winner luke mitrani

nick and lucy doing eskimo kisses... how cute!

lucy sure did fight with us about her hat and her gloves. every once in a while she decided that she didn't want to wear them anymore and actually tried to shove her hat under the fence and bury it so we couldn't put it on her anymore. she is silly!

our little family, we had fun but we were tired and ready to go home!