Family Day

Today we had just about my ideal family day. We spent the night in Denver last night and this morning took the boys to the museum. We hadn't been since I was pregnant with Mac, so James was super excited to see the dinosaurs and the outer space exhibit. I tried to re-create some of our wedding pictures while we were there. Except with James in them instead of me, and he wasn't wearing a wedding dress.

James' themed outfit was totally unintentional, but I loved that he matched the space exhibit, so I made him pose under this astronaut, which he was clearly thrilled about.

 Another wedding photo re-creation.

There weren't any random strangers up on the balcony that I could ask to take a photo of all 4 of us, so I settled for this instead.

 Mac hated and loved every exhibit. He hated the darkness of the space exhibit, but loved the astronaut bear in the play area.

 He hated the big dinosaurs, but loved any button he could press or flap he could lift up in the dinosaur exhibit.

On our way back from the museum, we went to Tattered Cover and spent about an hour reading books in the children's section. I stayed strong and resisted the temptation to buy the boys any books. I sure miss living by a bookstore! This last picture has nothing to do with anything. I just love Mac's monster outfit, and it shows my Valentine flair on our mantle. The living room looked pretty empty after we un-decorated from Christmas, so I went a little overboard with decorating for Valentine's Day a month early.

                                            
We ended our day playing Disney Headbandz together at home, which if you are a fan of Disney movies, is a lot of fun. What a great start to our long weekend :)

Just pictures

Mountains

We went up to the cabin on Friday night after Tim got off work. James has had a Lego gift card burning a hole in his pocket since October when Lego Disney sent it to him as consolation after Lego Hulk cut his head open. We stopped by the Lego store on the way to the mountains and James had so much fun deciding what to spend his gift card on. The cabin is under construction and not very accomodating at the moment, so we went straight to bed when we got up there and headed outside as soon as we woke up on Saturday morning. We have hardly had any snow this winter, so the boys loved having lots of deep snow to play in.

Keystone has a bunch of free activities for kids the whole ski season, and right now they have a hands on Lego exhibit going on. Clearly the perfect thing for both of our Lego maniacs. James with Lego Santa!

We took both boys to the bunny hill at Keystone and let them go up the magic carpet a few times. 

All geared up and ready to hit the slopes. 

Heading up the magic carpet lift.

 Mac was 110% excited about his helmet and goggles. His excitement ended there. When we took James skiing at this same age, he LOVED it. Mac, not so much. He went down twice and was over it. But he did wear his helmet and goggles for the remainder of the day. Literally, he didn't take them off until bedtime.

 James did pretty well, as long as you don't count following directions. He just wants to point his skis straight down the mountain and go. Tim and I have realized we are not good at teaching James to do anything. He is about as stubborn as they come and listens to almost nothing we say. So as long as we just let him do what he wants, he does just fine :)

James starts a 5 week session of ski lessons in February. So we are hopeful he will be able to go up a lift and get down easy runs with us by the end of the season.