Cabin Weekend

We spent a very cold and snowy weekend up at the cabin. There was a ton of fresh snow and we enjoyed playing outside, sledding, having icicle and snowball fights, watching James ski and playing games inside by the fire. A perfect and very relaxing family weekend!

Although I love the snow up in the mountains, I am ready for spring at home! Come on warm weather!!

St Patrick's Day

I've always loved holidays, but having kids who love holidays makes me get even more excited about them. We love to go all out for every holiday around here, and St. Patrick's Day is no exception! We decorated for St. Patrick's Day this year and have been having fun reading books, drawing rainbows and leprechauns and hiding gold for each other since the beginning of the month. On Friday night we spent the night in Denver and had the perfect view for the (World's longest) St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday morning. It went right by our condo, so we got to enjoy the show from the comforts of the living room instead of sitting on a cold sidewalk. That is my kind of parade! (We left Denver 4 1/2 hours after the parade began and it was still going strong!)

Our St Patrick's Day flair:

We came home Saturday afternoon and James immediately went into high gear looking for evidence of leprechauns, making up songs about leprechauns, and finding all his gold from last year's leprechaun hunt.

 The boys woke up this morning to little leprechaun Lego mini figues and were delighted to see little green footprints on the toilet, as well as green leprechaun pee inside the toilet. There is nothing more funny than potty jokes to these two, and a certain dad I know does nothing to discourage it.

 My attempt at a shamrock shaped waffle for breakfast.

We met our friends in the park for our 2nd annual leprechaun hunt after breakfast. James had really been hoping that another sneaky leprechaun would leave some gold for him this year, and he was not disappointed.

 The kids were all thrilled to find their share of leprechaun gold. Every single piece that Mac found, he would hold up and yell, "Gold! Look mama! Leprechaun Gold!"

 Almost our whole leprechaun hunting crew.

 After finding gold, the kids got to work creating their own leprechaun traps.

James filled his trap with gold, and later green food, and hung it from a tree.

 We had a green feast for the kids and a rainbow fruit and veggie tray-isn't it pretty?!

 Mac chowing down on his green lunch.

I am feeling pretty lucky that these two little crazy, funny, boys are mine. Potty jokes and all.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Eldorables

This week James finished his ski school, Eldorables. It was a 5 week program and I can't believe the progress that he made in 5 weeks! He did it with his friend from school, Will, and we took turns driving the boys to Eldora each Wednesday after school. James really, really enjoyed it. I can't think of another activity that he has done where he has been this excited, he genuinely looked forward to going each week.

James mastered getting on and off the lift by himself and can ski down any green run just fine by himself. I am super proud of him! Here are James and Will the first time they rode up the lift without an instructor-

 James and Will ready to ski-

 Coming down a green run-

 James with the 3 other kids in his class. It was great having such a small group, he really learned a lot.

 Riding up the lift with Will and his instructor his last lesson.

James and Will after their last lesson with stuffed polar bears they got from their instructor. 

 Nyla, Linley, Instructor Jenny, Will and James.

I am so happy that James had the chance to be in Eldorables. He is now a confident skier and we are exicted to be able to ski with him!