Mea skiing

Here is a short video of Mea from this morning mastering the fine art of racing downhill at 6.5 miles per hour.

She was still a little tired after a week battling the flu but she was excited to get back out on the mountain. It was a warm, beautiful day with clear skies and lots of kids for her to pass on her slalom runs. Well, maybe slalom is a couple of years away as she still seems to like the speed of the magic carpet.

Jared's work trip to Israel--October 8-13th, 2007

2007 was a fun year for Jared at work, thanks to a few neat projects that gave him the opportunity to travel a bit. If you saw the post of Barcelona and the Grand Canary Island trip this summer, that was a work trip. In September he went to the U.S. twice for work, and then in October he was able to visit Israel.

I don't think he had ever had a burning desire to visit, but once the opportunity presented itself, he was all on board to go. He and his colleague, Emmanuele Pizzo (Italian guy in the brown shirt), had a week of work to do, but they were also treated to open air dinners overlooking the port of Jaffa and a tour of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv beaches, and some of the surrounding areas. I won't go into all the history and sites that they saw, but I hope you enjoy seeing some of the pictures of the trip.

Jucker Farm and Gwen Stefani--Oct. 6th, 2007

October 6th was a full day for us. We started out with a trip to Jucker Farm to see the kurbis art and finished the day with a rock concert.

If you look back at my blog postings from last fall, you will see that we visited Jucker Farm back then. This year we made a morning of it and had some friends join us for the fun as we let the girls climb on bales of hay, jump on the trampoline, play in a tee-pee and pet the animals. It was also a treat to eat lunch at the restaurant which serves the best fresh pumpkin soup I think I've ever had.









As for the concert.......back in the spring Jared and I decided to join in with some other couples from KPMG and buy tickets to see Gwen Stefani while she was on her world tour. Well, when October rolled around and it was time for our night out, I wondered what had we been thinking. Outside of one R.E.M. concert, I had never been to a "rock" concert. I considered selling our tickets and bailing out but it turned out to be wonderful time. Gwen was an excellent performer and seemed so down to earth, and even though I only knew 2 songs, I had a great time.

Back on the Bloggin' Wagon

I can't apologize enough for the time that has passed since my last post. There are two major reasons for this: 1) our home computer died in early October, and 2) by the time the new one arrived in late October-early November, so much had happened that I was overwhelmed! I had no idea where to begin.

So, here I am trying to finally get back on the blogging wagon. I am going to go back and post short blurbs about our October, November and December happenings, and then I will attempt to be more regular about posting current events. I apologize again and appreciate your patience.