Olympic Flashback

Watching the Olympics every night has made me nostalgic, so we're pulling out some pics from 2002. Here's hoping the games will come back here again one day. Every venue had a preview event to 'test the waters' so to speak. This was at the speedskating event. Those Dutch folks were enthusiastic to say the least. Caitlin had a bit of an issue with how loud it got (again, I blame the Dutch), but she looked cute with her 'merican flag. I still haven't figured out how Austin got a Japanese flag on his forehead, but oh well. Our own Olympic Village. I think they should have tightened security a little bit - look at all these hooligans!

The United States team enters the stadium during the opening ceremonies. This was one of the few pictures I took that didn't have the heads of the Italian folks sitting in front of us in the photo also. They may have blocked my pictures, but they were quite entertaining. Congratulations on the Olympic gold medal Austin! That would be the actual Ladies figure skating gold medal (see below). One of our friend's father was the project manager at the company that made the medals so we had a little preview. They were very heavy and the silver was the prettiest.

Aunt Teri came to check out the festivities.

Was this before or after Smash Mouth at the Olympic Medals plaza? Either way it was an awfully fun night!

Opening Ceremonies... awesome!!

Belated Valentines...

As you can see, Mom went all out for Annie's birthday/Valentine's dinner (with both food and decoration). Don't y'all wish you lived closer because we got more chocolate (insert evil chuckle here). Of course all of my chocolate is gone - I had to eat it up as fast as I could because I gave it up for Lent. I didn't want to have any in the house tormenting me until April.

Um... Austin... Chuck Bass called and said he wanted his look back because you weren't doing it right, but Justin Bieber said you could keep the hair.

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Today seemed like a good day to play hooky. Caitlin was out of school (track break) and Austin's grades were A-OK so we headed to the mountains. I'm here to tell you that skiing will definitely remind you of how old you are. I'm hoping to be able to walk tomorrow (I may have to go on the injured reserve list - although I guess I can still type, so I'll soldier through).

Caitlin didn't miss a beat - she just took right off. Hopefully she's going to learn how to turn instead of just pointing the skis downhill and leaving her mom in the dust.

It was a spectacularly B.E.A.Utiful day today - we worried because it was supposed to snow, but it snowed a bit last night and all that powder fluttered around in the air all day. It was pretty cool because the sky was so blue, but there was snow in the air... I know, the picture doesn't really show that.

I love it when the slopes aren't crowded (I'll only ski on weekdays for this very reason).

Austin had an unfortunate incident in the powder ... it was a little deeper in the trees than he thought it would be - it took a bit of effort to get himself out. He didn't move for quite a while, but he eventually cleaned off the board and took off again.

Ok. It's time for Advil.