Snow Days

We have become quite the snow bunnies here in Colorado. The weather here is very different from Arizona. It can be a warm sunny 68 degrees one day and two days later it's 3 degrees and snowing. After a good snow storm the kids are itching to go out and play...

I shoveld our driveway and the kids and I piled the snow to make a snowman. It took us a good 30 minutes to get it piled and shaped into this little midget. Then Crew says to me, "Now can we make the mom and dad snowman?" HA! I told him to go right ahead!

There's our little house in the midst of the snow... I think two or three days later we got plowed with another 7 inches...it was crazy!

There was lots and lots of powdery snow coming down since the tempurature was way below zero. It covered everything in this wonderful white fluff. This is the tree just outside our trailer... beautiful!

We took the kids sledding at a hill just by our place and it was so much fun. Here is Emma standing up! She is thisclose to being a full time walker (finally)!! She stands up and takes a few steps on her own, it's so cute.

Emma and Dad after a ride down the hill. Emma loves the snow!

Here is Crew and me about to go down. Notice his eyes shut tight? He was excited to go down, and even went down two times all by himself, but every time his eyes were shut tight!

The night before all this I made some jalapeno poppers and stupidly used my fingers to de-seed the peppers. It took 3 days for the oils of pepper to get out of my fingers and I couldn't put my contacts in, hence the goofy glasses...

Kaylee took Crew down the hill a couple of times, and they both went flying each time! They plowed into the snow, got up, smiled, laughed, and walked back up the hill. They are troopers!

Emma's favorite thing is getting a sled ride on her tummy.

Xtreme Kids

Last month I took the kids to St. George so I could go on a cruise with Tasha. While I was there the kids spent alot of time with Elyza and Cohen. They got to test ride their new bikes that they got for Christmas.

Kaylee was super excited to ride. They got all geared up and rode around Becca and Alan's backyard.

It took Kaylee a little getting used to it, but she finally got the hang of it, and loved riding the motorcycle.

Crew was dying to ride. I was a little too nervous to let him ride the motorcycle since we haven't taken him officially off training wheels yet, so I let him ride the quad.

This kid is nuts behind the wheel! I couldn't stop laughing because he rides just like his dad, reckless! Alan nearly dove on top of Crew to try and stop him from driving full speed into the side of the house, but Crew turned the wheel last minute and saved it, and acted like it was no big deal... just like dad...

Emma just watched on the sidelines, no riding for her. This picture was actually taken at the park near our house here in Colorado... she's so dirty, but you gotta love the girl!

Christmas 2010

I know Christmas was awhile ago, so I am way behind on a few posts. I just wanted to let you know that although we are living in cramped quarters, we still managed to have a very Merry Christmas! I was only able to bring along a small 3 foot LED optical-lit Christmas tree, but we sure rocked it!

I didn't bring along our stockings, so the kids put out some fun socks of mine... (they were clean) Emma sure enjoyed getting a few little candies and her first tooth-brush!

Have you ever seen footage of a trailer park after a tornado has struck? Well that's basically what it looked like inside our trailer after the kids went nuts on their Christmas presents.

We were swimming in tissue and wrapping paper. It was a blast, and everyone got some cool stuff. Crew and Kaylee got some sweet scooters, and Emma got a new baby doll and stroller. Chris got a few gift cards, and a new Xbox game. I got an awesome new camera that I LOVE!

We had a simple breakfast of cereal and got all geared up to go sledding in the snow. There wasn't much snow around us so we headed to the mountains. We were so excited to use our new gear that we got for Christmas!

Here are the kiddos all ready to head out. We packed up a few sandwiches, crackers, cheese, some fruit and of course a lot of hot chocolate. We hit the road not really knowing where we were going. And 4 and a half hours later we decided we didn't plan properly and we would attempt to find snow another time... but it was a great car trip! We just enjoyed seeing parts of Colorado we hadn't seen yet, singing songs, and joking around in the car. It was a great Christmas!