Outside of Stan's soon to be Big Sky home...

It's been a busy week, mostly full of work at the store for me and Jackie running Micah, Howie and Andrew to town for orthodontist appointments, hebrew school, dermatology appointments, meetings with the rabbi, bar mitzvah lessons, It's all somewhat of a blur to me. On Thursday we had food tastings at the bar mitzvah venues inbetween work and school and Micah working on his declamation, a speech about Chief Joseph, an American Hero. Micah found some great quotes of Chief Joseph to use in his paper, "Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars." And, "We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. (White Men) were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them."

His paper, so far a rough draft is really interesting... Friday night we had Margy and Jim over and I tried to teach Howie how to juggle - see videos below...

Howie talks to Margy and Jim...

Jackie remembers we have juggling balls!

Margy takes our photo...

Mark sings the prayer for the wine...

Today Howie walked around the entire day practicing juggling 2 balls in one hand. Today, I took Micah up the mountain around 8:45 so he could ski with his freeride team, then I worked, lots of deliveries, Howie slept in till 11 am so Jackie hung out with him and met me up the mountain with the 2 grocery orders I couldn't fit in the truck and helped me finish up. Howie kind of helped, but mostly just kept trying to juggle.

A very full delivery truck...

And then tonight we went to the ski dinner where Howie and Micah both got Nordic awards and Micah also received most improved freeride skier...

Videos of Howie juggling, Mark juggling and Micah getting the Freeride Most Improved Skier Award from Coach Kelli...