Update

Greetings friends!

We hope that everyone is having a great start to 2014! Sarah and Pete have been busy with all sorts of stuff. Sarah is working at the min. 5 days a week at DV. Sarah is really enjoying her job...it is nice that she has the chance to work with different age groups, including some adults. The next busy season for Sarah will be Presidents week/end. It will be almost as crazy as Christmas, is what she is told...so she will be working a lot coming up....

Pete got some exciting news in January... he got a job offer! He actually had a couple of different opportunities, but in the end he decided to accept a full-time banker position with US Bank. The job is located in Heber City, so lucky Pete has about a 1.5 mile commute to work. Pete starts work in a couple of weeks and is very excited to start his career in the banking industry.

Utah has gotten some snow recently, so that has been nice. Other than that the weather has been sunny most days with highs anywhere between 30-40 degrees. It sure is different being able to ski while it is snowing and still have the sun shinning....this would RARELY happen in Houghton.

We have been dragging our feet posting on the blog, but now that we have some concrete plans in the area (for now) we will be doing a better job of keeping everyone up to date.

Have a wonderful rest of your Monday. :)

Lazy Saturday

Hi yall!!

Sorry for the delay. We have been pretty busy here in Utah. Although, we sure could use some of the snow that the UP is getting! We will update you all soon on what is going on.. again, sorry for the delay....exciting posts to come (i hope anyways).

Pictures!

Hi all! Sorry for the delay. We just got some what good wi fi ability! We both have been busy...but here are some pictures :) ....the World Cup pictures are from when Deer Valley hosted the World Cup freestyle competitions in skiing. 

Drive home from Deer Valley

World Cup!

Sweden's World Cup mogul team

 Freestyle jumps

World Cup mogul course

Yummmmmmm. Dinner :)

Random picture of Pete at waterfalls

Auld Lang Syne

Greetings! Again, we'd like to apologize for not updating the blog.

Karin and Pete explored the surrounding area by going to Provo and Orem.  We took a short little cruise around the campus of Brigham Young University.  Instead of having coffee shops, they have hot chocolate shops.  Interesting, but to each their own I suppose. On the way back to Heber City, we checked out a roadside park.  We saw a few people hiking, ice climbing, and even fishing.  Also on the way back, we took another detour and explored Sundance in hopes of meeting Robert Redford.  Not surprisingly we had no such luck.  Even still, riding up the mountain and back down was very scenic.  Sundance looks like a fun hill to ski.  There is also a state park at the top of the mountain road.  The rest of New Year's Eve was spent preparing for 2014.  Karin made lots of tasty appetizers, yum!  We were all tired, so we only made it until about 10:30PM MST.  By then it was 2014 in Michigan so we were fine with calling it a night so early.

Originally Karin was supposed to fly back to Michigan on New Year's, but forecasts of bad weather in Chicago cancelled her flight.  Karin and Pete took advantage of the extra day and went for a hike at the Deer Creek State Park.  It was a bright, sunny day and the scenery was beautiful.  It was a great way to start the New Year.  Unfortunately, Sarah had to work so she was unable to join them.

On the second, Sarah had work again.  Pete dropped Karin off at th airport but stayed in Salt Lake City to make sure Karkn was able to fly out.  He enjoyed browsing the Patagonia outlet. Karin was able to fly out of SLC to Chicago via standby status. Her luck continued and made it back to CMX on the late flight.

Thanks again for reading!  Happy New Year!

Another Day in the Land of Milk and Honey

Hello All!  Pete will be blogging now too.  We apologize for not updating this every day. We are still having a few internet issues that make it difficult to write new posts.  Pete and Karin left Houghton on Friday morning and made it all the way to Rapid City, SD.  They left early Saturday and made it to Heber City at about 6:00PM.  It was great to see them again!

Sarah’s ski lessons continue to go well.  Her supervisors are confident in her ability; she gives private lessons now too!
 
Pete unpacked his belongings and is enjoying Heber City and the mountains.

Karin is also enjoying Heber City and has made good use of the kitchen.  She has been kind enough to bake us Christmas cookies.  Yum!

Today Sarah had work as usual.  Pete got his haircut while Karin baked said Christmas cookies.  Pete and Karin went to Park City for the afternoon.  They got lunch at the Wasatch Brew Pub and enjoyed some full strength brews.  Exploring Park City and looking at all the shops was fun.  Maybe the best part was all the people watching.  During this time of year a lot of interesting folks visit.  To wrap the day in Park City, Pete and Karin went to Deer Valley and met up with Sarah for appetizers.


Thanks for reading and Happy New Year!

Wrapping up December

Hello All!

Merry Christmas. Let me take a moment to tell you all about my Christmas eve. I had a great day at work, came home ate, showered, and got ready for church. Since the closest Lutheran church is about 35 mins away I had the choice of LDS or Catholic church for Christmas eve. I chose to go to the catholic church down the street from where my room is. I got there a little early, so I sat down an waited for the church to fill up. To make a long story short...the mass was 75% in Spanish. I know ZERO Spanish.. so that was really fun.

I got home and went to bed after that night. I woke up and opened presents that my family got me and "Santa".....I then had a pretty crazy day at work.. and just wanted to get home and relax. I had some friends over to celebrate the holidays and that was awesome. They stayed for about 4 hours...that was nice! After that I was ready for bed...it was a long day. I woke up this morning and then went to work.. It is getting busier every day this week we will cap out at 425 kids in the age group that I am in alone..so many people on the hill (8,000!!!). 

On another note.... my mom and Pete are leaving tomorrow morning to head out here! It has been a long three +weeks out west without anyone.. but it has been a real adventure.I would not change it for the world.... but it will be great to have them here!

Off to bed, early morning ahead of me... mehh.

Night all! :)

What day is it?

Hello All!

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend! Mine has been good, but has flown by!  This weekend I taught my first two lessons! On Saturday I taught three kids ages 7-12 and today I taught six kids that were ages 7-12.

At first it was really overwhelming...trying to keep all the kids in line and to organize them. After the first hour or so everyone got to know each other so it happened to be a little less "stressful". Something that I have noticed the past couple of days is how fast the time goes! You meet and greet your students, then you go do a couple of runs, you then go eat lunch have time for a run or two after lunch and then you head to hot cocoa break, and before you know it you are meeting the parents on the bottom of the hill. It has really been a learning experience...but it is a rewarding job watching the kids have fun and getting a little better at skiing each day!

I find myself, multiple times a day, wondering what day it is... I thought today was Friday then I thought it was Monday.. but no it is Sunday. I work Monday, Tuesday, have Wednesday off, and then work the rest of the week. My schedule looks like I am going to work 13/14 days! AHHH, it is super busy here... but it is good!

All for now, I may not write again until Christmas day... BUT i hope you all have a wonderful Monday and enjoy this holiday season! :)