SPRING BREAK

FINALLY... NO MORE SNOW,

Mike and I got home on the 12th... I've been in love with the warm weather here at home. When we flew out from MT there was still 2-3 ft of snow on the ground. This break has been pretty easy going, not much on the agenda, had to write few papers, but besides that I've chilled out with my family and got to watch lot's of good movies : ) and EAT mom's food... yah, no more POTATOES!!! I think I've filled up on the junk food for the next two months.


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snow boarding has been a blast, we got to go to Big Mountain 8 times. Every Monday morning all eight of us students and Jerry would gear up and head south for Kalispel, where we'd spend the whole day just carving the hills. This was my first time on the snowboard, and i must admit I kinda of "stunk" at it... but hopefully I'm getting better and next season I'll be riding with the guys...he..he. : )


I also got introduced to snow camping... yah, I'm from GA... three of us girls had to build a snow cave to sleep in for 2 nights, that was a lot of fun... and we stayed pretty warm under all that snow. Kristi and I even built a couch so we got cozy next to the fire, well... almost cozy, our pants got soaked from the snow melting under our " seats " ... it was a warm and a wet experience.



So school... well we do that too, on our days of the mountain, camping and backpacking...
i've enjoyed my first year of academy just me and Eric my class mate... we definitely get all the teacher attention we need. Some of my favorite classes are science and PE... which consists of rec in the afternoon.


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Major events in the family of the TAYLORS has included a fall from the sky in which my Dad participated, yah in this area it is called SKY DIVING!!! For my Dad's 47th B-day we bought him a skydiving pass, with an INSTRUCTOR off course! After watching my Dad, I've got hooked and I can't wait to turn 18, so I can go... in the mean time I get to dream about hang gliding for my 15th b-day!





I also got to spend some fun time with my newly married sis, Audrey and her hubby Luke. We spent the day in Chattanooga where we went to see an IMAX on the Grand Canyon, that was a 3D and during the rafting expedition down the Colorado River, I was ready to puke... but i didn't.

It's going to be so sad seeing Audrey and Luke go to MI, they'll be leaving in a few days for Grand Rapids, where Luke will be the asst. pastor for the Central SDA church. Hopefully we'll visit them in the summer and for holidays.

I have to head back to the "wilderness" on Monday, so there won't be another post until June!!! So until then... enjoy your last months of school and we'll post later : )

~Elise ~