all the things to do

I need this.
To get my life all straightened out and in order.
It's a bonus that it's cute to look at and it would help me remember all the little things
that always make their way to the back burner.
Boring things like getting my tires rotated.
I usually don't need to be reminded of the fun things in life.
That's where the problem starts.
You can also get it in app for your i phone
if your extra cool like that.
I think I'll go make that dentist apt. now that I have been putting off.
It' nice to accomplish at least one important boring thing a day. :)

I saw red hair coming out of his helmet

Shane and Ellie dialed my digits from their snowboard date.
Basically to brag that they saw the flying tomato showing his stuff in the PC half pipe.

We basically had the exact same conversation on the phone
that these owls had in this commercial.
So when I saw it on the tube a couple days later I laughed pretty hard.

Is this what everyone says when they see a ginger going bigger than life in the pipe?
It must be.
Canyon and I took the afternoon shift later in the day.
We were too late to see the red headed wonder.
Maybe next time.

It's her favorite spot in the house.

She makes herself a little bed with a pillow and her favorite blanket
about 10 times a day.
She reads
hangs her socks out to dry
stares at the ceiling
wants to eat every meal {but can't}
watches movies
naps
lays out every stuffed animal
does puzzles
colors
and pretty much anything possible
in this spot.
It is her absolute most favorite place in the house
and she is always warm. :)

winter weekends

We had a 4 night 4 day weekend. It kind of felt like we were back on Christmas break again. Ok...ok...a little less magical no glittery tree, fudge for breakfast, or a jolly old man but still it included the same loungy mornings, ski afternoons, and slumber party evenings. We added a little football watching in between it all. We wore our Christmas break wardrobes for 4 days straight which includes slippers, ski thermals and pajamas. A tornado went through my house and built GIANT blanket forts, strewn art supplies about, left ski paraphernalia in every place possible and ate popcorn in every.single.room. Lucy had happy glued on her face because she got to sleep in in her princess tent with Ellie for 3 nights in a row. On the 4th night they set up a movie theater in Canyons bed and slept in there like 3 peas in a pod. 4 nights! Could life get any better!?! Imagine the let down when the 5th night came around and it was back to the typical bed time routine. :( It was tragic. Sometimes to the really enjoy the cozy winter weekends you gotta let everything go and let imaginative, creative tornado's turn your house upside down while you sit on the couch watch a good movie and pretend it's not happening. If we do this for enough weekends maybe dreary January will finally come to an end. Hasn't it been January for at least 100 days already? It seems like it. Can we please start making Valentines already?

{Friend Ski day}

{Giant blanket fort}

{Weekend artwork. Ellie and Lucy were the artists. They did not leave the table until every last picture was done. I think it took them about 1,000 hours.}

{Sleeping Headquarters. With every blanket in the entire house. Blankets somehow surfaced that I didn't even know still existed, they really shouldn't, I wish they didn't}

{Daddy,Daughter Snowboard day.}
{Mother, Son day not photographed. :( }

skiing X country style.

I went cross country skiing today for the first time. Unless of course you count that one time when I had braces, a neon ski suit, and pushed myself up a partially snowy road. Did you know that cross country ski courses had black diamond trails? I didn't either but my friends are hardcore like that and took me up one called the roller coaster. When you are cross country skiing black diamonds mean extreme uphill instead of down. I was nervous I wouldn't make it up the hills in my slippery long skis or I would fall on my face on the way down. To my surprise neither occurred. I was a miracle. I'm am pretty sure I looked like a total nut in form and style sporting snowboarding pants instead of spandex but I played it cool hoping no one would notice. {thankfully there were only kids out there!} There is a reason for that spandex you know. It is quite the workout! You work up a sweat like no man's business! It was great to spend an afternoon outside in the sunshine and it was such a nice alternative to my original plan for the day which required deep cleaning. So Thankful for fun adventurous friends and living in the mountains!

into the new year 2011

We are well into the new year and here is how we wrapped up 2010.
* getting the house all holiday'd out.
* eating way to much food {were talking fudge for breakfast} it got that bad.
* holiday parties
* Sleeping in
* Tangled
* not blogging....and for that matter I wasn't very friendly with the computer at all. To much internet shopping burnt me out. I was pretty much absent from all things computer.
* hanging out with family and friends from near and far.
*Santa came!! You should have seen the look on Lucy's face when Ellie told her he was coming down our chimney. "MOM!!! santa is gonna get burned!! {with much anxiety}
* Canyon and the Mr. got the Christmas Eve stomach flu. {saddest holiday event} I had to help him open his Christmas Eve pj's. Luckily he felt better by the morning. He had a lot of helicopter flying and wii playing to do.
* baking yummy treats.
* getting really bad bowling scores.
* getting really bad Kinect scores.
* Flying remote control helicopters.
* Lots and lots of days snowboarding.
* Lucy has discovered the thrill of skiing...there is no slowing her down. {I had a slight heart attack.}
* Ellie getting her snowboarding on a little more. {She has been a skier}
* Canyon is all about it...it's his favorite sport. It's fun!
* A giant snowstorm
* Fireworks
* And then a giant ball dropped from the sky and that meant the new year was here and my holiday was over. :(



Next year.
* I will blog more. Because I look back and this and this, oh! and this and I am sort of sad I don't have a lot of those little things I'm so thankful for documented this year.

HOPE EVERYONE HAD A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!