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Happy Birthday Abbie!
Abbie turns 14 today and she's celebrating in style. Her brave parents allowed her to have a slumber with all her friends. There's 11 teenage girls in our basement right now, screaming, giggling and...
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Farewell to the 2016-17 Ski Season
The 2016-17 Ski Season was a fun one for the Raible Family. Abbie and Jack are good enough that they can zoom down the mountain without looking back. Their preferred runs are now blacks and they're no...
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Happy Birthday Abbie!
Abbie turned 15 today. About a month ago, she said she didn't want a birthday party, so we decided we'd surprise her with one. Her mom did most of the work, inviting her friends, gather food and...
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Farewell to the 2017-18 Ski Season
Summertime has arrived in Colorado! Typically, I try to write my "end of ski season" blog post in April or May, but this year it slipped until June. Do I have a good excuse?! Not really. Things got...
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Happy Birthday, Abbie!
OMG. My daughter, Abbie, turned 16 today! We celebrated all weekend with her grandparents in town and lots of smiles. Abbie hosted a birthday party at our house on Saturday night with a bunch of...
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Farewell to the 2018-19 Ski Season
Holy cow! 2018-19 was one of the best ski seasons ever!! It all started in December with some gorgeous powder days and only got better from there. Trish and I took her birthday off (December 17) and...
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A Beautiful Adventure to JBCNConf, Barcelona, and Boston
I love it when school's out for summer. The feeling you have on the last day of school as a kid is like no other. It's a terrific feeling. The feeling of freedom. Our kids graduated from 10th and 8th...
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Happy Birthday, Abbie!
Abbie turns 17 today! It's hard to believe, but true. For those that've followed me since the early 2000s, you might remember I announced her birth on this very same blog. It's crazy to think that I...
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Happy Birthday, Abbie!
Abbie turns 18 today! Our little girl is now an adult. I couldn't be more proud. 🥳 I can't imagine being a high school student right now in these pandemic times, but she's handled it well. She lost...
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Farewell to the 2020-21 Ski Season
This ski season was interesting to say the least. Because of COVID-19, most Colorado ski resorts required reservations in order to ski. This wasn't too painful because we did most of our skiing during...
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Happy Birthday, Abbie!
Our daughter, Abbie, turned 19 this week. She's having a fun freshman year at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She's in the Business and Computer Science Program, has a good attendance record,...
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Farewell to the 2021-2022 Ski Season
I had a lot of fun this ski season, but I didn't make it to the mountains as much as I thought I would. I bought both the Epic and Ikon passes with high hopes at the beginning of the season. The rest...
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Happy Birthday, Abbie!
Our awesome daughter, Abbie, turns 20 today! She's a sophomore at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lives in her sorority house this year. There are around 100 girls living in the house, and...
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Farewell to the 2022-2023 Ski Season
You can tell your Spring is a whirlwind when you don't have time to write your end-of-ski-season post until July! My ski season started way back in October, on Halloween at A-Basin, to be precise. It...
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Happy Birthday, Abbie!
Our oldest child turned 21 today! She's a junior at the University of Colorado in Boulder, living in an apartment with three roommates. Abbie is a joy to be around because she's always smiling and...
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Farewell to the 2023-2024 Ski Season
This year's ski season was delightful! This was largely due to our acquisition of a new condo in the mountains, lots of free time to ski, and some epic powder days with friends. I achieved 30 days of...
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Happy Birthday, Abbie!
Abbie turns 22 today and is thriving through her senior at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Happy Birthday, kiddo! 🥳She's enjoying the Coach Prime Era and has even secured a job after she...
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Life Update: New Job, Same House, and Same Awesome Family!
It's been over eight years since I wrote a life update blog post. At that time (2016), we'd just moved into the "Raible Ranch", the bus was finished, and the kids were in high school. I'd just started...
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