Monday, January 11, 2016

Flagstaff Family Time

We booked a friend of a friend's cabin for a weekend and guess what?!  The night before and the day we drove up it snowed a massive amount of snow!  How lucky was that??!
Trevor could hardly contain his excitement for snow.  He LOVES snow for some odd reason!
 Toby wasn't so sure!  Mama and Ashley either ;)
 But the boys loved it and couldn't wait to start the fireplace up!
 The next morning they got to shoveling...
 ...and making a sledding path!
 Weeeeeee!
Once it was set the girls joined outside!
 Which is where we spent the rest of the time until lunch!





 Hot chocolate to warm up!
While Ashley napped the boys went to the main sledding hill of the resort.  Snow ball fight?
Our friends the McCormick's (well part of the family anyway) came up too!
Toby and Mama stayed nice and warm inside while Ashley slept!
When the boys came back they warmed up in front of the fire!
Toby apparently needed a blanket too LOL
 When Ashley got up we all put on our suits and went in the hot tub on the balcony! 
Some electronic battle ship then bed!

The next day we all went to the big sledding hill and you can see by the smiles we couldn't leave for a long, long time!










 Snow angels!
 Eating snow!
 Kisses for sister!
 Ashley did a good job of walking up the hill each time but after a few hours she started getting shoulders from Daddy!
It's so pretty in Flagstaff after a snow!!
Ahhhh...heat!
 On Sunday we headed home and found it interesting how many people stopped on the side of the highway and sledded down the slopes.
 Our kids weren't interested.  Only because they didn't know because they were sleeping!!
 And how about this guy?  Hope the snow doesn't melt by the time he gets to where he is going!
So thankful we are able to take these mini-vacations with the kiddos.  We all had a blast and we know the kids will remember this trip for a long time!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Big Girl Bed

After not even allowing her new to her toddler bed (thanks Stella!) in her room she finally said she wanted her crib to go to someone else and she was ready for her big girl bed!  She napped in it yesterday and slept in it last night no problems at all!  Yay!  Way to go Ashley!!

Friday, January 1, 2016

New Year's!

On New Year's Eve day Nana and Trevor were out for a walk/scooter ride..
Guess what they saw coming down the road?
Lots of charter buses which could only mean one thing!  That The Ohio State Football team was practicing at Pinnacle High School right by us!  So they tracked them down and yep!  They were right!  They watched for a bit before heading home for evening festivities!
It was time for NYE!  The Feather's hosted Friend's New Years!  They are always so gracious in hosting and their house is set up perfect for it so a big thank you, thank you!
 
 Gracie and Ashley said no more pics to the paparazzi! 
At this year's party it wasn't just any ball drop at kids' midnight!  Nope!  We had a gender reveal for the McCormick's who are having their 4th!  It's a boy!!
 That makes 3 boys and 1 girl!  Congratulations!!
 After the ball drop, Mr. Brian put on another great fireworks show!
 Then it was photo booth time!
Silly kids!
 Trevor was far too busy being Mr. Social than taking a picture with his family so we took one without him!
And of course we would have a friends pic!!
 Caught Trevor dancing with his girlfriend Claire! :)
 When people were leaving we brought our kids home to sleep (Nana and Papa Steve were still there) and then we headed back to the Feathers to help clean up.  We were done just before the real midnight so we got to ring in the new year with our great friends!  Happy New Year!!