Snowboarding

Last Saturday (March 8) the Koch family (meaning my mom, dad, Landon, and Whitney) decided to take a ski/snowboarding trip up to Brighton and invited us to come. We were both very excited! I was excited because I haven't been skiing in years and Dan was excited because he has never been!!! Dan decided to snowboard since his friend Ryan was nice enough to lend all of his snowboarding gear to him, so I thought I would do it as all. So it was going to be an adventure for both of us, that was for sure. We were both so excited the night before and I couldn't wait to do something fun because we had both had a very stressful week!!! The morning started out really bad actually. Dan woke up and went to his Saturday morning basketball class and I was going to make a breakfast for him when he got home and have everything ready to go. But when I got up I felt so sick (like throw up sick) that I couldn't even do anything. I thought that maybe if I ate something and drank some water that it would go away, so I made some toast and tried to eat it, but I couldn't even get through half of it without feeling even more sick! I was trying to be positive but I knew I wouldn't be able to go snowboarding if I continued to feel like this. Dan got home and was so cute and got everything ready while I just sat there feeling sick and sorry for myself and he continued to give me words of encouragement that I would feel better and be able to go, so I trusted him and we headed off. We made a stop at the gas station and got tums and sprite and he gave me a blessing and we headed up the canyon. I felt so much better after the blessing and I know its because Dan is a worthy Priesthood holder and I am so grateful for that!!! So with my stomach feeling better and our lift tickets - we attempted to snow board. Whitney, Dan, and I were all doing it for the first time and boy was that interesting. We couldn't even get on the lift LOL. After the first run though we were doing much much better and we were able to continue to go. Dan had a one really bad fall and his goggles actually cut his face under his eye, but he is a trooper and kept going. We ended up having so much fun and after we went back to my parents house and had pizza and watched a movie! The next day we were both in so much pain!!! Our knees hurt and we both had head aches - but we didn't care because we had so much fun and we can't wait to do it again!!! We are so grateful for days like that when we are able to just have so much fun and not worry about work or school just for a little bit! Thanks Mom and Dad Koch for letting us come and for being such awesome parents! We are so grateful and we love you! The whole clan!

My mom told Dan and I to hold hands, but our knees hurt so bad from falling that we couldn't move... so this is what she got haha.

You can kind of see the cut on Dan's face in this picture! Poor guy!!!