Photo Sabatoger,rock star or silly teenager?

I swear every picture my daughter and her friends take, they are sticking there tongues out and or making the peace sign. EVERY picture, are they being funny, cute, annoying or do they really think they are some kind of Rock Star? When I take a picture of her I always say NO tongue! It's smile one, two, three NO tongue! Damn it Kate...delete okay one, two, three I mean it no tongue! ugh......teenagers!

My BFF Award goes to....

(Thanks Tami at http://ttmillersandboys.blogspot.com)

This BFF award goes to 4 friends nominated for being a great blogging friend. My 4 BFFs are listed below. In order to nominate a BFF you must list their blog and a reason why they were nominated.

1. Tami at http://ttmillersandboys.blogspot.com she gave me this award and I'm happy to call her a BFF . Tami was the very first non family member to comment on my blog and we have a lot in common. I love reading her blogs and hearing about her boys and their sports. She also brings a smile to many of my gray days here. Thanks Tami!

2. Joyce at http://perfect-beginning.blogspot.com because she has a quality about here that turns a bad day to good. She always has amazing recipes and looks for the joy in everyday.

3. Somer at http://lovetobreathe.blogspot.com she has the best attitude and spirit for life. I wish to be more like Somer, she radiates positive energy and fun. Her smile is contagious and has the cutest pugs!

4. Ina at http://ina-offret.blogspot.com is one of the kindness blogging buddies I have, she is honest with her opinions, has great taste. I love her attitude and spirit and her love for her pups and family.

If you don't already follow these lovely ladies please check out their blogs and see why I think they are great BFF's!

Collages

Many of you have ask how I've been doing the collages on my post. I use a website called picnik and a lot of it is free. http://www.picnik.com/
I don't have a photo shop or any good photo program on my computer so I joined for $24.95 a year and the limits of what you can do are endless.

Sophie

I was never really a big dog person, until Sophie came along. I think because we have had her since she was a puppy, there is a bond her and I. I love taking pictures of her. I know can you have too many pictures of your dog? NO! Sometimes she is good and poses and other times she is so annoyed. I really love her and can't imagine my life without Sophie.

My baby is sick....

Katelyn stayed home from school today with a stuffy,sniffy head cold....and I played with my zoom lens to my camera. I think she wished she was in school but I was happy to have the company.

How to kill 8 hours on a train......

Riding on a train anywhere in Europe is the only way to travel. Well actually it's our only choice, we don't have a car here. But I recommend it, it's low cost, efficient and painless, well some what painless. Eight hours is a long time to kill, we played cards, read, and listened to music. I tried to improve my Free Cell percentage and Katelyn took many pictures of herself.

We ate snacks, bad coffee and I slept a little. The scenery was amazing and eight hours flew by quickly.

Skiing at SkiWelt Austria

SkiWelt Austria Trip with Keeley Family

Austria Pictures

Kufstein and Ebbs Austria

Austria

Skiing in Austria was amazing and frustrating at the same time. I've always heard that in Europe there isn't the queue in ski lift lines like in the States. I would never believe the chaos getting on the first Gondola every morning. The pushing and shoving, if a gap opened someone would push into the spot. At first I was laughing, like are you kidding me this is stupid. But then I would get pissed and hold my ground and no body was getting past me. The race and fight just to get in the Gondola was even worse, words can't describe what I saw it was embarrassing the behavior and need to go ski was animalistic. I would laugh again and say you obviously need to ski worse than me, go ahead knock your self out!

There are many differences in ski resorts in America compared to Austria. Think America is so sue happy that they have stricter regulations there for the precautions are noticeable. I never saw ski patrol anywhere and limited signs for runs and out of bounds. There were many runs that on one side was a cliff, and in the States it would be fenced off.

Skiwelt is the largest ski resort in Austria, not only were there 91 ski lifts/gondolas but they also had 70 restaurants. Lots of people from many countries, but very few crowded runs. Towards the afternoon you started to see more accidents and out of control skiers due to the large in take of beer being consumed during the day. I think some would ski a run and drink a beer than ski another run etc... lots of drunk singing by days end.

My husband was on cloud nine and daughter too. For them to ski the Alps is a dream come true. Me on the other hand lost count of the falls and started counting the bruises. Sorry to say I never sung "the hills are alive with the sound of music" coming down the ski slopes, I mostly was swearing various combination of swears and made up a few new ones!

I can't walk! But I can shop!

This is where we have been skiing and why I can't walk today, without wincing and swearing! I really have no business being on this mountain and I know it, I just wish my husband knew it! Today I opted to shop instead of ski, I'm much better at that. I never got stuck once, didn't fall twenty times or swear once! Not a tear was shed or muscle failure, no aches and pains, no yelling at snowboarders, no pushing or shoving. The only words that came from my mouth were " do you take Visa?" It was a good day!