This week is January 12th

This week is all about the funny things we would see on our way to Steven's Pass for Friday night skiing.  We drive through a couple of very tiny, one-horse towns and we would entertain ourselves with this stuff.

Now these pics are not the best... we would pull over and snap them really fast and then drive away like paparazzi. 

So this place was some sort of restaurant/bakery.  However, we could never figure out where it was.  The signs were next to a garage/alley and then a pick up truck.  Do you eat in the garage?

Pickle Farm Road!!

Another family fave was Bubba's Road House... yes, it was really called Bubba's, and he liked big food.

Then there was Rico's... the world's tiniest pizza place.  What was so funny about this (for us anyway) is the Rico's was a chain!!  There was another one close to Steven's Pass that we named Rico's West.  Ha ha!!  This is a pic of Rico's East.

Next would be Big Foot Coffee... you cannot be this far into the mountains without some sort of Sasquatch reference.

Steve likes to say "there's a squatch in that coffee shop!!"

There was a truck parked in front of my very favorite sign so we couldn't get it.  It said "If I'm not here, I'm over there" and big a big arrow pointing to "over there".   Ha ha!!


Well that is it for this week!  Next week's post has video of the boys skiing!

Today is January 5th

Friday night ski school!!

So most of the January posts will be all about skiing.  We signed the boys up for lessons on Friday nights for 7 weeks.  The lesson is an hour and a half long and then we all ski together when it is over.

My knee injury from my sledding accident up at our friends' condo stopped us from skiing with the boys for the first three lessons so that was a huge bummer.

We ski in the Cascade mountains at a place called Steven's Pass.  It is only about an hour and 15 minutes from the house. The boys were in a class with three other kids and the ski school is great.  They put all the kids together based on skill and age group, so the boys had lessons with kids that were not only beginners, but also their same age. 

They ended up having so much fun and now they love to ski as much as Steve and I do!  It has been a really fun family activity for us.  It has really helped us get through the rainy Winter.

This season the boys want to snowboard.  The ski school also offers snowboarding lessons, too, so I will be interested to see which one the kids like better!!  Their friends down the street, Zac and his brother Jack, and another kid from their school, Tyler, snowboard with Lyon Ski School so they would all hang out together after lessons.

This pic is called "the murder squad" because they are killin' it out there!

HA HA!

See you next week!

Jenny and the Jets