Archer's team wins states!

Just when everyone else is pleading for winter to have mercy and be done already, at our house we're saying "Already?" Archer's Mount Greylock Regional High School Nordic Ski Team won the state championship for the fourth year in a row! The middle schoolers didn't ski in this one, but got out of school for the whole day to go and cheer them on. Check out number 703 (the guy on the left seems to have number envy). First track and field meeting's today! No rest for the sports-weary (me, not him).

hats off!

Hats for playing "guitar" in the snow

Hats for mimicking hair that won't grow

Hats with pompoms...does this make me look fat?

And a bonus baby with a bonus hat.

amazing arch continued!

Had to post just a couple more pictures of Archer owning the competition. He's just behind the skier in yellow, head down, all business. Sorry, girls, he's only 13.

The Conquering Hero

zzzzoooooooOOOOOM! So fast the shot is blurry! Archer (13) had his first Nordic Ski meet yesterday. For those of you who don't know, Nordic skiing is cross country skiing. It was a five mile race hosted by our junior high/high school, Mount Greylock, which is surrounded by woods and has amazing cross country trails on its property. Archer only started practicing with the team last month, and he had never been on skis before. (His parents had to take out a second mortgage on the house, throw everything we owned of value on eBay, and sell the car in order to buy him equipment, but don't get me started).
This was his first race and he assured me he might be coming in "dead last", but he was 18th out of 54!