Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2016

Sledding and Science

The big girls don't have school on Wednesdays, so it is our "wide open" day, when we're not worried about schedules. Sometimes we stay in our pjs till noon. Sometimes we leave the house early and stay out until late in the afternoon.

On this beautiful snowy Wednesday in November, we spend the morning sledding and the afternoon experimenting.

We woke up to the most snow we'd had yet, so the kids immediately requested to get bundled up and go out in it. The first thing Emily did when she got out there was to plop down and start a snow angel.

Elizabeth was super excited to be out in the snow, but she was not a big fan of being cold, so she didn't last long.

Addie wanted to get right on the sled.

After a few minutes of cold fingers, Elizabeth had had enough and went running for the door. Her reaction reminded me quite a lot of the last picture in this post.

The big girls REALLY wanted to bring the sled to the pool park hill, and on a day like this one, I just couldn't say no.

Emily was the first one to head up the hill. She was heading up practically at a run, she was so excited to zoom down.

Addie wasn't far behind.

The girls took several runs down before we decided it was time to head home for some hot cocoa.




After hot cocoa and lunch, we decided to have some science time. We started out using droppers to add vinegar to our colored baking soda, and we ooooed and ahhhhed over the fizzy results.





Then we decided to throw caution to the wind and we put aside our droppers and just began to POUR the vinegar. These results were giggle and squeal-inducing and we went through the entire bottle of vinegar in no time.



What a fun day with these three snow bunny scientists!

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Holidays!

Seeing as I'm about half a year behind on the blog, I'm just going to lump all the holidays that have occurred in the last six months here in this post. I apologize (to those of you who read the blog in real time, and to myself, Chris, and the kids for future reading) for getting so incredibly behind. It's one of those projects that snowballs in its intimidation as time goes on. The more time that passes, the more pictures we take, and the more overwhelming "work on the blog" becomes. It moves to the bottom of the to-do list, because it just seems too daunting. But I'm not ready to give up entirely, so here we go...

The Fourth of July














Here come the Fire Trucks!




Halloween







We left the jack-o-lanterns and babysitter DeeDee behind to go trick-or-treat through the neighborhood.













Thanksgiving

With the Nicolls


















With the Hicks'















Christmas

Christmas Eve



Booger the cat





Elizabeth was spellbound watching Callie paint her toenails







Cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer

Christmas Day





Midway through opening presents, Addie thought to go check out Santa's plate, and came running back with it to show us that only a few crumbs were left!





Addie and Emily each got to go to the toystore with me to pick out presents for each other. I took Addie first and she chose the pink unicorn for Emily, and then asked me to make sure that's what Emily got for her, too. When I took Emily shopping, she browsed around for a bit, but eventually landed on the pink unicorn for Addison.



Enjoying presents

And then, it came...our wonderful, beautiful, perfect Christmas Snow!





Christmas in Michigan

When we landed in Michigan, there was surprisingly very little (no) snow, but it was still plenty cold for our Colorado bones.
Chris and Elizabeth with the wedding tree


Sally Cat!


Joey!

Michigan Cousins...Johnny with Ezra, our three, Hannah, Heidi, Joey, and Annabelle



Emily really got into writing on this trip

Ask Emily what she wants to be when she grows up and she'll tell you, "A dentist like Uncle Eric." She loves this guy.

A big Christmas dinner

A beautiful sunrise over the lake

Chris caught this shimmering rainbow spot in the sky...

...and its reflection in the lake

Grandma CeeCee

Mr. Joe

Dance Party!

The. Best. Fort. Ever. Thanks Uncle Eric!



Ezra James


Stickers on PopPop's face!

Emily practiced and practiced writing her name

Addie took on the role of Teacher almost every day

Elizabeth enjoyed having a high chair eating-mate