Breaking in a new board??

This Christmas Sommer put together an amazing present for me.  The Rice and King families pitched in and got me a new snowboard and new bindings!  Our camera is charging so I'll put up a couple shots from my phone.  I was a little worried at first when I kinda pieced together the mystery of what I was getting for my birthday and Christmas (thanks to Mom spilling the beans that it was a snowboard)  that Sommer had picked a board without me being directly involved.  Over the last couple months I had been teetering between which two boards I liked. My favorite changed every time I looked at snowboards but was consistent between two boards:

The Burton Custom (left) and The Burton Supermodel X (right)

Looking back at it I feel like a little boy in the candy isle that can't make up his mind, but I figure a 500 dollar investment is one of those things where it's still ok to have that outlook with.  Anyway, I was back and forth between these two boards but it was only day dreaming.  I wasn't planning on getting either this season even though these two boards are from last season.  We even found the supermodel x new in a shop from last season and it was 50% off, I admit I druled a little.

Twenty and Four Years Later

I guess I'm 24 now.

So for my birthday i downloaded the old Tron from 1982 so i could get the back story and then we went with Julie and Bonnie to see the brand new one.  It was real fun and I really liked the way the two stories tied together.

Sommer and I had a nice relaxing day.  We cleaned up a little and got our house a little more organized.  Lately Sommer has had a lot of Deck Out My Home projects and it's made the house a bit of a mess, but it also gave us a ton more furniture and drawers so we have more places to put things, yahoo! Sommer and Julie made fun cupcakes for my birthday cake, as you can see from the post before this (chronologically).  Bonnie even came out just for my birthday...and to pick up Julie  :)  It was a nice day.  After we saw the new Tron movie I gave Sommer a couple bucks and she and Julie played a game they really like.  It's called "Pump it Up!"  Its like Dance Dance Revolution but by Korea or something.  Here's a couple fun videos of them, I think in one of the games Sommer won.

Chris' Birthday Cupcakes

For Chris' birthday Julie and I made Winter Wonderland Cupcakes. I don't think he loved them as much as we thought he would.... but he thought the leftover unfrosted cupcakes were tasty.