Riding with Jaime (and Dennis)

This is Lisa, she works at the hospital with us, is a paraglider and, as I learned this day, a ripping tele skier too!  We ran into her and her boyfriend Scott, I could barely keep up with her, it was cool :)

Skiing with Jamie was super fun! (She is in the pink coat) We stayed on steeps all day and holy moly it was really deep.  I was supposed to only be up there for a half day but it was just dumping so at around 1pm I called work and told them the roads were too bad to come down and I better just stay up there. It wasn't a lie. I also really wanted to stay and play.  Jamie and Dennis are two really fun people and I just love them :)



On another note, Jaime is learning how to paraglide and Dennis has some pics he needs to send to me.  She is doing really well and is learning through Superfly (of course- we wouldn't let her go to anyone else). My new wing should be here in 10 days...

Pics of skiing with the girls

This was my second day skiing since I was fourteen (okay third, I took a couple of runs on Chikadee one day) and it went good. :)  Poor Syd had a really bad cold but she still was able to take a few runs and try her jumps off Chip's Run. Good times. My mom, sis and niece ROCK!!

Syd off the cat track...

Poor Syd had such a bad chest cold this day and she still wanted to try her jumps! I got a couple of clips on my camera with this being the best one.  She only lasted a few runs before the cold got to her but it was fun regardless. Just wish she had felt better!  

chuga chuga choo choo

141lbs, 20.3% body fat. I guess that means I have been eating my spinach :)

I only have two sessions left with Mr. Buff, sad!! I will try to team up with my mom and sister but it seems like schedules are impossible to coordinate. And then in the summer I am off in paragliding la la land so I will have to motivate on my own to fit it in.

On a totally random note- we found plane tickets to Italy for $947 last night and that is the first time we have seen them under a grand. Needa get on the tax returns before we buy any but we are totally going. Going around the other side of the planet with my hubby, oh yeah!!! honeymoon and one year anniversary all at once. :)

Mom and sister- I need pictures of you skiing to put on my page...take some of each other next time you go. :)

On the Fitness Train

For Christmas my mom got me 10 personal trainer sessions with her personal trainer, Jimmy.  Jimmy won Mr Utah in October and he is rather huge.  Needless to say upon walking in there with my noodle limbs and soft tummy I was a little scared.  I want to be stronger and feel good.  so the first thing homeboy did was pull out the calipers and measure my body fat %. He did it two different ways and the first one read 20.5% and the second one read 18.5%.  I guess thats fairly lean according to him but the object was to stay the same weight (139) and decrease the body fat.  So far I have sweated, cried, grunted and spent days not being able to move certain parts of my body.  It's kinda awesome. I see why people pay others for personal training. I would never put myself through this torture that is making me a lot stronger.  I also started jogging around the time that I got the desk job and am up to running around 3-4 miles 3-4x a week.  

My conclusion thus far is i feel sofa king amazing!!!!  The time with Jimmy is brutal, nauseating, painful and rewarding.  My time on the treadmill is getting easier and funner.  I don't really dig the gym but I am able to pace myself and the people watching is never boring.  I only have three sessions with Jimmy left and he is going to help me put together a little workout I can do on my own.  If I only gained one thing from these sessions it is that I now realize what kind of physical pain I need to feel to get stronger if I am going to do it with weights.  I don't really know any other way to get my arms and shoulders stronger.  My legs are fairly strong and hiking with the gear this summer will keep those going.  (I want my arms/shoulders/back stronger for paragliding...okay acro.)  

Now I realize what my mom has been doing the last couple of years with this guy and she looks amazing!  I am really proud of her- she has lost weight, is really tiny and damn she is strong!  Its character building too- well, pain is character building.  :)   

Next week: remeasure the body parts and body fat %.  don't really care because I feel damn good. 

On the hill with Syd

A couple of Sundays ago Justin and i got to spend the day up at Snowbird with Syd and my mom.  We did a few trams and Justin was showing Sydney some little hits and giving her some instruction on how to go a bit bigger and it was really cool!  Little girlfriend doesn't know how to speed check!  She is fun to ski with :)  We threw some parachute men off the tram over the cirque and were lucky enough to be able to retrieve them too!  After a really fun day on the big hill Syd wanted to try snowboarding and she did really well for her first try.  Only kinda fell once getting off the lift and by the end was making it down the bunny hill at a decent pace.  i even tried some skis for a few runs too and that was haha funny.  Cool day, cool family.  

Solitude with Monica!

Sunday Justin and I went up to Solitude with Mo- chica from the point who knows her way around this hill.  It was cool because she showed us some really cool steeps that would have taken Justin and I a while to find, probably while getting fairly cliffed out.  She's a ripper and we stayed in steep trees all day.  Around two Chris (Ize...?) joined us for the last bit of the day.  I had to finished up a little earlier than them because I spent Saturday really ill and was feeling mostly better but not all the way.  Well anyway, it was sick.  Monica rips.  We had a great time and will hopefully get to go again soon after another big white-e.   

Life update:  It rocks.  Jobs are working out perfect.  Health insurance is taken care of.  Ordered a new wing with custom colors.  Looking forward to more snowboarding and then warmer weather to fly in.  Almost done with Syd's video- just busy and haven't gotten to work on it much.