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Michelle’s Yoga and Ski Retreat

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Michelle spent a relaxing, energizing and restful weekend at Sun Mountain Lodge at an all women’s ski and yoga retreat. She learned a ton about cross country skiing (we’ve been doing it wrong for years!) and spend some great time with our friend Libbey who was teaching the ski lessons. Pictures of the beautiful weekend below.

Photos from Mazama Winter Retreat 2009

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It’s hard to be back at work after such a wonderful 9 days in Mazama. We had 5 dogs, great snow, lots of good food, great downtime and visits with friends. We were able to ice skate (twice), cross country ski (three times), sled (lots – some with the dogs pulling), snowshoe, help light and watch a huge bonfire on New Years Eve (see other post on this), play games (Cribbage and Monopoly being the favorites) and generally lounge around.  Pictures of the week are below – I’ll post a second blog post just for the New Years Eve pictures.

Thanksgiving in Mazama 2009

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We just returned from another wonderful trip to Mazama for Thanksgiving. Michelle and Jackson went out on Monday morning while Lindsay and I came out after school/work on Tuesday. There was about a foot of snow on the ground and Jackson spent the whole day making snowmen. We had a bunch of fun in the snow including snow ball fights, snow men, minor sledding and walks in the crunchie white stuff.

We had Thanksgiving Dinner at Stewart and Phil Dietz’s place (because SHE has a dishwasher not named Scott) and were joined by Bernerd and Evaline Waltham and their two young children. We had a wonderful time and had the opportunity to re-interate how lucky we are and how thankful we are to have health, happiness and love.

We got in some projects around the cabin including re-stocking wood, cleaning up the wood storage area, moving the hot water heater inside and patching up some holes. I was able to get in some fishing on the lower Methow and we spent a fun night in Winthrop for the tree lighting and fireworks – which were amazing!

As Michelle said while we were there “I already can’t wait to come back”.

Photos from Erica and Keet’s Wedding in Monterey

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Michelle and I spent a wonderful weekend with her dad’s side of the family down in Monterrey, CA for her cousin’s wedding. The weather was fantastic, the venue beautiful and the company was wonderful. We had a blast. Michelle and I were fortunate enough to be invited to the rehearsal dinner at a historic building/restaurant called Stokes. We sat next to Keet’s Mother’s Twin Brother Bill and his wife Susan and just had a blast. Lots of great food, wine and conversation about their life in Japan, traveling and kids.

The wedding on the following day was in the Memory Garden near the Portola Hotel which was an open atrium with four massive magnolia trees the provided cover and a hanging opportunity for the lights. The service was touching, Erica and Keet were amazing and we got to spend time with our favorite relatives from Santa Cruz including Erica’s Dad and Step-Mom (Ron & Jill Lindsay).

The day after, we had the chance to visit Keet’s parents house in Carmel Valley and thank them for a lovely weekend. The pictures below only tell a portion of the story of the weekend, but wanted to get them online to share.