What a week!

This has been a fun but crazy week at the Anderson home. On Saturday, Rene and "Tony" (his American name) came to stay with us for eight days. Rene is one of my old English students and Tony is an exchange student from China. Rene went to China with our school earlier in the year, but he is unable to host a student at his own home, so we volunteered to have the guys stay with us. It has been such fun getting to know both of these young men and learn how different both of their lives are from ours. It's also a humbling experience.
In the midst of entertaining and hosting these guys, several huge snow storms have pounded Park City one after the other, Rob received a black eye at his flag football game, Sawyer started officially pulling up on furniture, I got to go skiing (the morning after we recieved 13 inches of snow in one night!), and we watched our first episode of LOST. (Thanks to many, we have learned over the past few months that there is a character named Sawyer on the show. We DID NOT name our child after a character who, according to the middle aged women around here, is the "cute one", who happens to be a con artist and has minimal facial stubble even though his plane crashed and he has been stranded on a "special" island for months.) We look forward to a fun weekend with Rene and Tony and the snow that won't stop falling!

The flag football injury.
The big boy!
He's so proud of himself.
Woohoo!! My skis are under there somewhere. The powder was up to our knees most of the day.
The view from our last run.