Romantic Dinner

Nothing says "Valentine's Day" like a romantic dinner out -- plus one!

Happy Valentine's Weekend

Even though Valentine's Day is an over-the-top Hallmark holiday, it's still fun to eat all the candy and tell your special someones how wonderful they are. Anderson and I started off the weekend getting valentine doughnuts at Dunkin. How tasty!! I really thought this would be a leisurely activity where we would sit and munch doughnuts. Wrong. Anderson ate his half a doughnut lickity-split and we were out of there in like 15min. After that we went and visited dad at work and then ran off all that sugar at the Community Building toddler open gym. Later that afternoon we made our valentines -- Anderson thought they were super tasty! What a way to start off the weekend!

Helping mom

Anderson really enjoys moving things from one place to another -- his item of choice, clothes. Frequently I can enter his room to find his drawer open and empty and all of his clothes have been placed behind the rocking chair. His stuffed animals have been moved from their basket to the clothes hamper. While I'm trying to do laundry it's no different. The dirty clothes get strung out all over the basement and the clean ones I'm trying to fold are transferred to his car. Hopefully in all this movin' and shakin' clothes don't start disappearing!

look mom, I'm helping!

wait, these don't go here???

ok, I'll drive them home

Ski Trip

At the end of January we went skiing with my entire family. We were celebrating my parent's 30th wedding anniversary -- only like 7mo late! What an awesome time! Anderson loved all the attention he got from his uncles and soon-to-be aunts. I mean, what's better than constant smiles and cheers for everything you do?! He went sledding, checked out downtown Breckenridge and played at the resort daycare. To see the rest of our skiing adventure, see the slideshow on the side.

Snow fun

We finally got a chance to play out in the snow! Between the freezing temps and the snow melting we had a small window to get Anderson out there. We also had to test out our bibs and snow boots since we're going skiing next week! Anderson thought the snow was great! Especially when dad would throw it in the air and it went 'splat' on the sidewalk.



After all that snow fun we decided it was a good time to go swimming!! I turned Anderson's pool into a ball pit, and man did he have fun!!

Winter Safari

What do you do with a 13mo old inside for days on end because it is too cold to venture outdoors?? Well, you go on a safari inside, of course! How you do this you might ask -- well, here's our little adventure.

First you climb the mountain to see where the trail takes us

then you slide down the mountain just because its fun

load up in your car

oh wow a lion! and he walked right up to our car!

wait a minute, what kind of safari is this anyway???

Happy Holidays

Now that we finally made it through the holiday season, it's time to have a recap. Anderson had a great time with all his grandparents and uncles. He pretty much loved the wrapping paper once it was off the presents. These pictures pretty much sum it up!!