Updated Pictures of Max

So my faithful blog readers have been asking for updated pictures of my nephew, Max. I had to ask my sister to send me some photos since the pnly pictures I have are on my cell phone! Here is a cute picture of Max from my last visit to San Francisco.

I got Max some books for Hannukah. Ha absolutely loves to read and the teacher in me couldn't be happy to support the habbit. Here we are reading one of his favorite books

Adie's Birthday and Skiing

Here are a few pictures and a quick update on our lives. We had a wonderful Christmas with Ian's parents and sister Gillian in town. Ian was off for both Dec 24th and Dec 25th, so he got to spend Christmas with his family. It was pretty low-key, and the highlight of the my gifts was a Wii and Rock Band. I am already playing medium on the drums and guitar (but not the singing). We did get a chance to go to Zoo Lights at the Denver zoo and Ian and his family went up skiing after I had left for California. (There are no pictures to post because we did not take any - I will try to add them later if they come from Ian's family)

I spent the week between Christmas and New Years in California with my family. It was really nice and relaxing. I hung out with my parents, a ton of friends from San Francisco and Stanford and of course, Matt, Sara and Max! Max is adorable at 17 months and is a real speed demon. My parents and I took him to Golden Gate Park and he ran all over the place - we could hardly keep up. He seemed to enjoy the books we got him for Hannuakah, and enjoyed showing me all his new toys. (Once again, no pictures as I did not have the camera - although I did get some good pictures on my i-Phone, but I don't know how to put them in here)

The first week in January, Ian and I went up to the mountains for vacation. We skiied 4 days and they were all amazing! We even took a video of us skiing with Ian's new video camera.

This is a picture of Mt of the Holy Cross from Blue Sky Basin at Vail

Ian and I on the slopes at Breckenridge

Here we are at the top of Blue Sky Basin in Vail. I think that is the same mountain in the background as above - Mt of the Holy Cross - Ian was very excited about it.

I got the pleasure of celebrating my 30th birthday a number of time with lost of friends and family. I had wonderful lunches, drinks, dinner and desserts with friends both in Denver and California, my Mom took my sister-in-law and I to dim sum lunch and got us both massages on my actual birthday, and my parents took me out to Ciopino for dinner that night. Ian threw a bowling party for me when we got back to Denver and I got to celebrate my 30th with friends and family back here as well. The only event I have pictures of is the bowling party - I really need to bring my camera to more places - but here are a few shots from that night.

Ian and I at the bowling alley - if you look closely you can see the beautiful necklace he got me for my birthday!

Kristi and Mike enjoying the fun

Sean, Kirsten and Jenna on the retro "seats" at our lane

Cat, Rachel, Nate and Jess were a pretty good team - but not quite good enough to beat . . .

Jenna, Chrissy, Mahlet, Saloni and Jen (and Kirsten and Cannon who were out of the shot)- the winning team (minus Jenna, who was just cheering on)