Linda Rokos Watts

The balance of being healthy and being sick is a very fine line. Something so simple as a tooth can wreck your entire system. Who knew?.......I didn't, until now!!   For about the last month and a half I've been having some pretty insane headaches, loss in appetite, not sleeping, and feeling awful. Fighting through the first month thinking maybe I just had the flu something like that, by was I wrong. The last few weeks have been pretty miserable. I've never really had headaches in my life and to go from that to blinding, wanting to gouge my eyes out....SUCKS! I finally broke down and thought I'd start at the dentist, because the other option was to go check to see if I had a brain tumor.....a bit dramatic but that's seriously how bad it was.   The verdict....total face infection, stemming from my #11 k-9 tooth being dead. Apparently a few years ago when I fell and chipped that tooth it started to slowly die from the impact. Some steroids, antibiotics, and a s...

Stella and I drove to Steamboat this weekend for a speed-element camp, which turned into a powder camp....... soooooooo much snow (it was pretty awesome)! We drove over Friday afternoon in some white-out conditions. I was half way up Rabbit Ears when I realized I forgot to pack my ski boots and skis, major BOOOOOO (it was a bit of a crazy week leading up to leaving on Friday)! According to some of the other parents I missed out on some pretty great skiing. Grrrrrrrrr As long as we followed the car in front of us and as long as they didn't drive off the road (because we would have followed them) we were all good!  Not many pictures from the weekend because I didn't ski and all the skiing took place in the trees. The best I have was from the girls getting ready for a tubbing party at Howelsen. Temporary tat stashes! Woot!  Hope you all had a fantastic weekend. 

This weekend Stella had her first race on her home hill at Loveland. We had some super highs and some super lows. Saturday started off with two top 10 finishes and lots of smiles. Stella has made leaps and bounds from last year and all her hard work this pre-season has paid off and has made a huge difference. I think she saw that and I could tell that it clicked. It was awesome!  Saturday first run on the pitch. I have TONS of pics but I'll keep it short and sweet.  We got tons of fresh snow Friday night so Saturday morning there was a lot of corse prep before the kids could start racing!  Stella second run on Saturday down on the flats carrying some speed! Woot!! It didn't go too great after this pic. Big fall but all good!  It was -10 and super windy, second run Stella came down with a white nose and a smile!  *sigh*, yeah I'm one proud mama.  Marta on the left won a few runs this weekend, Maddie (center) had some top 10'...

Aaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!  What a spectacular, awesome, fantastic year. SO much to be thankful for but looking ahead I'm ready to kick some booty in 2014.  We got the chance to spend the holidays with family and I hope you all got to do the same! We've been on the go-go-go schedule so it was nice to slow things down a bit and enjoy each others company. I feel like there is so much to catch up on in the last few weeks but it seems like it's best to just move forward!!! Lots to look forward to in the next few weeks of the new year, Stella has her first race coming up this weekend, a race the following weekend and to add to the mix I have two of our largest shows of the year coming up for work. Flying by the seat of our pants..........Woot! Christmas Day skiing has turned into one of my most favorite family traditions!!   ....and of course Christmas Eve with the family is always great too!!!! It's so rare that we end up at the same mountain (not on a race ...