WE HAVE A BABY!

This is Sarah Beard posting for Matt and Jodi. Just wanted to give everone a little peek into the hospital. John Andrew Turnbough was born today, July 28th, at 2:45. He weighs 7lbs 6oz. and 19 inches long.

Over a foot of snow!!

So today is a beautiful day because we have gotten over a foot of snow! To make it even better, we have a forecast that is calling for 12-20 more inches tonight! The resort and mountains look beautiful. I only had to work a 4 hour day today so I am sitting in Starbucks, enjoying the view and the smell of coffee. It is amazing how God can paint a beautiful picture with the snow. One thing I haven't talked much about is the simplicity of a mountain town. Things are so slow paced and simple. People dress for warmth, not necessarily looks and it seems that everyone is smiling. I am convinced that it is because people get to see God's artwork, the mountains, each and every day. It is almost seems that when you are up on the mountain you are just that much closer to God. What a beautiful place!

Colorado...still no snow!

Winter Park Resort...at the base. They are making snow and grooming it to open more lifts and runs.

A beautiful sunset sky taken off of our deck.

The start of our first official snow...we ended up geting around 4 in.

A visit to Grand Lake...beautiful!

Matt at work...isn't he cute in his work vest!

16th Street Mall in Denver...a pedestrian street that is lined with stores and restaurants.

While in Denver, we found a new coffee shop, Daz Bog. It was yummy!

Matt having some tasty Russian brewed coffee!

Hello everyone! As you can see from the pictures above, we are having a good time out here. Colorado is still beautiful but we barely have any snow. They are saying that we should be getting snow starting tonight and lasting through the week, but we'll believe it when it happens. Our jobs are going well and we are still liking them. The people we work with are really nice. We tried out a church on Sunday night and it was nice. As soon as we get a lot of snow...we'll get pictures on the site.

Mike and Mary

One thing I forgot to mention in my last blog was about Mike and Mary Bartram. They are friends of ours that helped set us up with this house. They also traveled out here with us to move our stuff in and get settled. Anyway, they left on Friday morning. It was kind of sad because after they left, we were really on our own. We would like to share with everyone how grateful we are to them. They really did help us settle into our new neighborhood. They left us numbers to call around the community and introduced us to some people. Mary cooked us all of our meals while she was here and Mike helped get the house ready for our stuff. They helped stock our kitchen with some standard goods. We feel very blessed to be able to call them our friends. Thank you Mike and Mary!!!

Sightseeing in Grand County, CO

Hello everyone. Sorry I haven't blogged the last few days. We have moved up into our house and we don't have internet or cable yet. We are down here at Pete's house watching Broncos vs. Chiefs game so we have internet! The last few days have been busy with getting the house unpacked and seeing what there is to see in Grand County. Below are the great things we have found:
ALCO - awesome store that you can buy things cheaply! We bought cereal, a coffee maker, two trash cans, dishwashing detergent, toothpaste, and something else I can't think of...for $25!!! YES!
Rocky Mountain Coffee - Awesome local coffee...I would say that I would put it right up there with Starbucks...
Grand Lake - little resort town that is booming especially in the summer time. Mom and Barb...little stores that you will love!! Dad...perfect fishing place! It is a cute little town that has tons of little shops along their Main Street. It is about 25 miles from here.
City Market - every $100 you spend, you get 10 cents off per gallon on your gas!! Gas is 3.09 up here and 3.19 in some places. We already got our Thanksgiving turkey... 12lb for $8.00....yes...I love sales!
Safeway - another grocery shop that has fresh bread everyday at 5:00 p.m.
Church of the Eternal Hills - cute little mountain church that we went to this morning. Our neighbors, Stan and Susan, invited us to go with them. Super nice people and actually we met a few people that were from MO. There was one guy that went to SMS and was a part of Icthus 1988-1992. Crazy huh???
Pearl Dragon - we have found a Chinese restraunt up here in Granby!!! It isn't quite as good as Springfield chinese food, but comparable. YUM YUM
Little Chapel in Winter Park - we haven't actually visited this place yet, but we have been told that they serve dinner to mountain workers every other Friday (the Fridays we don't get paid). Isn't that awesome!!! I love free food.

Okay I think that is it... as you can tell we are learning the ropes around here and really starting to feel at home. I am loving living in a small town again where you see faces over and over again. I don't have the camera down here at this house so I can't put pictures up of Grand Lake. As soon as I have the pics on teh computer I will post them.
Hope all is well with everyone.

Mondays and Tuesdays!

Well...we have found out that we have Mondays and Tuesdays off during the season! YIPPEE! These will be perfect days to hit the slopes...no one will be there! Today we found out that I will be working in the Children's area and Matt will be working in the downstairs ticket office. It was a beautiful day out here today...in the lower 50's. We are suppose to get snow Sunday and Monday. We are hoping for it because the mountain is looking a littel bare. Copper is open already, so we are thinking we might go skiing on Monday or Tuesday. Things are going great out here and we are loving the people that we work with at the mountain. Hope everyone is doing well!

1st day of training

Today was great. We got to meet the people we will be working with throughout the season. They are a great group of people...all different ages and different backgrounds. Our boss, Nancy, is a really nice lady and easy to work with. We found out we get 50% off at the Starbucks at the mountain...I was so excited! It was beautiful here all day! We started to unpack our boxes and trying to get comfortable here in Colorado. I have learned that layers is a key here....lots of layers! Mike and Mary have been great and it has been nice having them here to help us get settled. Hope eveyone is doing great!