we ski (in connecticut)

And by "we" I mean everyone in the family except me.   I am not really a skier and I don't feel bad about it; but, I lounge in a ski hut like a champ. 

Last weekend, we wandered over to New Hartford, Connecticut to Ski Sundown.  Papa and the boys hadn't yet skied the snows of our own state, so we thought it might be worth the try. 

It was good fun.  Everyone skied at least one blue trail, and I drank a lot of coffee.

We were meant to try another Connecticut mountain (Mohawk) this weekend; but, everyone was sick, so we just celebrated Papa's birthday in our usual low-key way. 

Which is not a bad thing at all.

2014, it's going to be magnificent!

Happy New Year!  Since it's still, technically, the first week of the New Year, I don't feel like this is late getting out.  Having thought about all the fun we had in 2013, we figured that we would try to make 2014 even better.  The Pups and I originally thought it would be an awesome new year; but, upon further reflection (and honestly, the need to come up with another adjective), we decided that we would make it MAGNIFICENT!  We are going to do a bunch of MAGNIFICENT things this year, we are going to record it (photograph it), and we are actually going to blog about it, so we can actually remember it next year.  Funny how that works, huh?

I used the excuse of having clients to photograph to take a few fun shots of the pups for new year's. These hams will never be shy in front of a camera, no sir.

Happy New Year!  And stay tuned for magnificence!