Back Again

I guess everyone's just going to have to get used to these breaks of several months at a time. ;)

A quick recap of the news since my last post...maybe the most exciting news is that the kids have another baby cousin!  Doug (Bill's brother) and his wife Christine brought Jean Michele Gowski into the world this past week and we are overjoyed.  Lucky me gets to fly to Chicago to meet her in a few short weeks!!  This is their first baby, and she is named after Bill's late mother and Christine's amazing mom.  What a legacy!

In other less-exciting news, Liza turned one (Dec. 8) and is walking.  She actually took her first steps on Pop (Gowski)'s birthday on 12/10, but has really turned it on in the last few weeks.  She and Freddy went bowling for the first time for a friend's birthday party last week.  Good times!

We finished up our family Cyclocross season yesterday with the final race for Bill, Freddy, and me.  Bill took second in the men's 35+ B category and I took third in the women's C category.  Freddy is now known to the entire Utah cyclocross community...and I am known officially only as Freddy's mom. 

Freddy has been "skiing" up at Alta just about every weekend for the past month or so.  We're trying to get him comfortable on skis before we attempt any serious hills.  Here's a little video evidence - sorry that you will have to turn your head (or monitor, I guess) sideways to see it:

We had some great visits by Papa (Geier) and Pop and Jan in early December, so I will try to load a slideshow of a few sample photos one day here....  Stay tuned!
xoxo