We Heart Valentine's Day

My girls LOVE Valentines Day! I guess its all the pink, hearts and candy. We really get into it around here. For some reason, Ava's school decided they we not going to do a party this year. This upset Ava. I can kind of see their point. Parties at her school are very chaotic and every parent has to show up a the school. It does prohibit any academics from happening! So we decided to have a little get together here. After planning our little "party" I found out the both girls were still having out Valentines and having a special snack. They just weren't calling it a party! Oh well. It was still fun to have some kiddos over!

Happy Valentine's Day

Cold Days

We have had record cold temperatures this week. That's why we were off school. -30 with the wind chill. I guess the buses wouldn't run so all of the Denver area schools were closed. One day is fun but two? Going a little crazy! When do I get my snow day? I am realizing that it is easier to have them in school. All the running gets me out of the house at least! And now I realize that the school district didn't account of snow days in the planning so we have to make up these days! We are now going to be in school until June! Now that I write this, I realized that I was just complaining about having two days off, why am I complaining about having school two more days into the summer. How am I going to survive the summer? So we really haven't done much these past two days... stayed in our jammies, watched a LOT of movies, and had hot chocolate. The girls did do some Valentine crafts today and so I got out my camera. Can't wait for school tomorrow!

Cowgirl

Since the Stock Show has been in town, Molly's preschool class has been learning all about it and about all the animals. On Tuesday, they got to meet, and pet an real horse named Sundance. On Thursday, they had a Chuckwagon breakfast. They got to make pancakes and have sausage at school. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful preschool for our girls. They have the best teachers and find creative ways to teach fun things!

The Pool

So, I have been wanting to take the girls swimming for a while now. They did so well over the summer that I don't want them to forget how to swim. I didn't know how it would go. Especially with Rachel. With an indoor pool. Would she get cold? Would she have enough to do? So, I ventured to the pool last week. And I was so pleasantly surprised! The girls did GREAT! Rachel loved the water! Molly remembered all her techniques and was even diving underwater! Ava met a friend and took the test to go down the BIG slide! She took off with and played with her most of the morning! I got a glimpse of what my life will be like in a few years when my kids are grown and go off by themselves! Can't complain about that!
My kids ALWAYS prove me wrong. I have learned to NEVER have high expectations because you never know what you will get! I just wish I didn't wait until the LAST day of break to go! We will be spending a lot of time there this winter!

Sledding

On Sunday, we took Rachel sledding for the first time. She loved the snow when she didn't have to walk very far. She would rather have crawled everywhere!! The older girls loved using their sleds. It was the perfect sunny day. I think we may over dressed.. we got hot and ended up taking off our hats and gloves. Rachel preferred resting/sleeping on the swings!!

2011

We rang in the new year with a family party. So much fun ringing in the new year with great friends!! It was chaos when the 10 kids were given noise makers! So we pushed up the countdown to 8:15ish. The adults had champagne and the kids had sparkling cider. The girls had so much fun and Rachel is still going around saying Happy New Year! We wish you health, love and happiness in 2011!!