While I'm waiting for Ben to return my camera I'll fill you in a little on where we are, and what we are up to.
We have left Blakely Island and are in Bozeman Montana!... well.. Belgrade to be exact. We have a lease for a furnished house in downtown Bozeman, but it's not ready for another couple weeks, so we had to do a weekly rental in belgrade while we wait it out. Why didn't we just stay on Blakely you ask? Because Ben was asked to come early for work. He has been itching to get here anyway, so it seemed logical at the time...
Anyway, here we are. We have been here exactly a week today! We are in a nice subdivision with a sledding hill right behind the house and an iced over lake where people ice fish and skate, so it's been pretty good! Henry has gone sledding three times, and skiing three times, so he's been a busy boy, which means we've been busy too!
Ben is almost done framing the house he came early to frame already, and will be waiting on trusses soon. It's going super fast! He even took Friday off to have a family powder day at Bridger Bowl. We took that opportunity to introduce Henry to the char lift and get him going down a real ski slope. Uncle Scott bought Henry a new set of skis for Christmas & we had tried them out quickly on the sledding hill on Thursday, but this was the real test. After a few runs Henry wanted to go faster & was getting really unpatient with his "slow" skis. He kept pointing at the bigger runs & saying he wanted to go on the steeper hill! ha ha. The trouble really was that the baby training skis he got had little scales on the bottom to make them slower & easier to learn on. That might work for a more timid child.. but Henry has a need for speed.
So after leaving the hill, we went to a second hand shop and bought him a pair of big boy "fast" skis. Then yesterday we hit the slopes again to try them out. AMAZING! Success; we had speed! This required some relearning since these ones took real ski boots instead of snow boots, but he took to it quickly! he loves his new fast skis and although we are still learning the snowplow, he can turn with some instruction and luckily doesn't seem to mind crashing.
Uncle Scott even happened to be there yesterday & found us on the hill. He took Henry for three runs!! I'm pretty sure that was his favorite part of the day! Henry loves uncle Scott & they went really fast down the hill together! Way faster than mom & dad were going. :)
So that takes us up to taday. We are at home today trying to organize, write Christmas thank you cards (yes, late again) and of course watch the HAWKS game!!! Ben is off buying some new ski boots, because after watching Scott with Henry yesterday, we have realized that to teach Henry to ski, we should be skiing, not snowboarding.. bummer. I bought new boots yesterday, because as you can see from the picture on the post below, the back of my calf is super bruised from my old ski boots. They fit great before I had Henry, but my foot grew, so they are way too small now and they sit funny on my foot cramming the back into my leg at an awkward angle. Ouch! I'm surprised I made it down the mountain I was in so much pain. My toes were actually worse. They were crammed so hard into the boot that they went numb before I even got off my first lift. Thought I was going to break them for sure.
Oh well, new boots, now I have comfy feet!
We left the marina with some projects still to do. We plan to come back to the island either April or may. I'm pretty sure I'll be going first.
Actually, we are headed back to Washington next weekend to go to the Seattle gift show for the marina. We will only be around for a couple days before coming back to Montana. I need to head back to Washington in Feb too for a baby shower for Courtney!! super excited! I think I will leave Henry with Ben for that & take a long weekend so I can make it a shorter drive by myself with less henry stops.
Ok, so I think I've got you pretty much caught up. More pictures coming soon.
Love, Team Davidson!
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