Sun Peaks for Spring Break

 Off to visit one of our favourite mountains:  Sun Peaks for the Nancy Greene Ski Festival

The boys are so big now; hard to believe

Bruno holding the poles

Chris and Martin discussing the slopes

The village down below

Getting ready to race

Bruno looks mysterious with this bandana he wore the entire time

The village at night

Nancy Greene giving out medals (Bruno got one but I have no reasonable pictures)

Walking the village

Go Bruno Go!

Looking good, Max!

One of my favourite mountains:  Sun Peaks has great terrain, a wonderful village, and it is family friendly!

Bruno with his medal!

Introverts Unite

 A great Ted Talk on Introversion and how we often don't value or understand this as teachers.

http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.html

Will I be this type of Mother in Law?

I love this post about being a mother to boys

I will be the notorious mother in law, or ....I can begin right now to work on being gracious, as I have a bit of time (say the next 10 years!)


I am sad the day they leave me for someone else! 

SFA Open House

 Max's report on immigration:  writing about Oma's story...

 Bruno studies the Chrysler Building in New York...hopefully we can visit it soon!

 Look at all the great buildings studied in grade 3:  wonderful work everyone!

 Bruno's snowman
 

Max's description of self:  "I am a little grade five student....."

SFA's annual Open House  is always a treat...it is nice to see what the boys are working on and to catch up with their teachers.  Bruno has been studying Structures and Buildings and Max just finished a unit on Immigration.  Good work, boys!

Night Skiing

Why I Live in Vancouver....

A twenty minute drive to fresh air, snow, and happiness!

Race at Hemlock

 Beautiful sunshine, crisp snow, and a fun day of skiing at Hemlock Mountain!

Putting on the MIles

 Max has been skiing up a storm this year, and Bruno is following close behind.

 Here is Max at Whistler for a skill series on Jan. 7th

 Tucking all the way!

 A sea of POC helmets...

The blue team jackets of Grouse Tyee!!!!  What a great team!

Teaching the Boys to Cook

 Two fantastic teachers I work with told me that one of the best things they taught their own children was how to cook.  Basically, they make their kids responsible for a meal once per week.  They helped their child buy groceries, choose the meal, and taught them how to prepare it.  So....

 I am trying to do the same...Max choose to make pizza; so we bought the ingredients, and I helped him out a wee bit...

 But he really took to it..and made a pizza..half cheese and half mushroom pepperoni.

 Boris wondered why he didn't get a piece!