November, December update....

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years have come and past. Unfortunately we haven't updated this site during that time period. So here goes nothing....

Thanksgiving week/weekend involved a trip to Eau Claire for turkey and almost as important, football. Driving through the night 13 hours and 982 miles each way we made our way through WY, NE, IA, MN, and WI. We ate two Thanksgiving dinners, one at the Dahlke's and one at the Scheibles. Friday was the big game known as Turkey Bowl. Aided by a bagpipe entrance Team Stallone won 28-12. MVP awards went to Brian for his excellent play at QB after starting QB Pat Rudd went down with an undisclosed injury.(He was actually just being a big baby)

December in Colorado was colder than what the "natives" as they call themselves told us to expect. 29 inches of snow, which didn't melt, and the fact that only main roads are plowed made for a winter wonderland. Our house was decorated and we did get a Christmas tree from King Stupid's. No pictures, but it was pretty. We did manage to get a weekend skiing in to Keystone and Breckenridge as well. The snow was great as we skied powder at Breckenridge and still managed to find some stashes left at Keystone on Sunday. Only problem was that it snowed so much and was cloudy so we couldn't get a picture for our Christmas card like we desired. This picture comes from Copper Mountain early Sunday morning, the only time it was clear all weekend.

Again for Christmas we drove home. First to Madison, then to Eau Claire. While in Madison Tucker saw his old friends Dinah, Rider, Mokie, and Maddox for a play session, we celebrated the Scheible christmas with who else, but the Scheible's, and we even had time to see a few friends at Pedro's Mexican Restaurant where our favorite bar tender, Markie Mark, makes tasty drinks. Sunday brought a drive to Eau Claire and a change of scenery. This picture shows the road conditions we endured. Enough said.....

After arriving in EC and trying to avoid watching the second half of the Packers playing well against the bears we hiked in the woods.

Christmas eve brough church, ice fishing!, and a prime rib meal. On the right is Mom Dahlke showing Tucker how it's done. Christmas day brought with it Lisa and Scott from Hudson. Scott got a sweet outfit to wear when he flies planes as shown here.

As soon as it started it was over for Brian to catch a flight to Denver. Long story made short, instead of getting to Denver at 8:05pm to catch a shuttle to his car in Loveland, he instead got to Denver at 12:45am without baggage. Luckily a Delta pilot named Greg offered a ride to Loveland.

Stay tuned for results of New Year's and a visit from Jacob and Pat Rudd....