Monday, February 25, 2013

New Years Eve



This post is a little old...
We usually go out with friends a day or two before New Years Eve.
We went to Las Velas Mexican Restaraunt downtown.  Very yummy.

Then we we saw all of the Christmas lights and went ice skating.  The rink is nice but they are the worst skates ever!!!


We also checked out the gingerbread house competition.


On New Years Eve our friends came over and we had appetizers, chicken lasagna, and sheet cake.

We planned on playing the kinect but didn't get around to it.  There was some target shooting (poor amelia's toys) with a B.B. gun and q-tips.  Don't ask.



Hayden stayed up until close to 10 and we had a fake countdown for him since he wanted to stay up until midnight.

Overall a fun time.














Thursday, February 14, 2013

Mineral Springs Waterfall


It got warm and all of our snow started to melt.  So we knew it would be good waterfall weather.   So we made the short trip to Racoon State Park to see Mineral Springs Waterfall.

The weather was warm but there was still a lot of snow and ice in the park.  It was also foggy so our pictures aren't too great.  But the waterfall had a ton of water.  Hayden liked taking pictures and trying to knock over the huge icicles.  













Saturday, February 9, 2013

Snow Days


Hayden loves playing in the snow.  He begs to go out and help shovel the driveway.  He loves to do anything that adult men do (shoveling, hammering, etc).

He has really enjoyed sled riding.  We bought him a tube to use now.  He loves it.


Amelia is hit or miss. Some days she will play outside for a long time and others she is done one minute later.


Funny story about Amelia:  She has pink snow pants and boots a girly coat, etc.  But I had saved Hayden's blue, waterproof gloves.  She refuses to wear them.  She will scream and throw them at you and go get her little pair of pink knitted/cost a dollar mittens.  Then she is happy until she goes outside and her hands are cold.  So I looked everywhere and finally found her a pink pair of waterproof mittens.  She is happy now!

We have built a snow man a few times.


We invited the cousins over to sled ride.  Look at Kennedy's face.  Ha ha


Mike loves to make the track.  He gets way into it.  We have to build a pile of snow to crash into to slow you down or else you wreck into the house!

Mike and Eric build a jump.  The kids loved riding over the jump.  Hayden would go flying.


Mommy did it too



Mike and Eric decided to "jump" over each other. 













Amelia and Brady wanted none of that and happily sat on the stairs eating home made chocolate chip cookies.











Everyone has been enjoying the snow...except on Friday.  It was so cold and snowed so they didn't salt the roads because it wouldn't have worked.  I was at work when the snow hit and left around lunch time.  It was so bad.  My 15 minute commute took me over 2 hours.  Traffic was horrible on the parkway from Moon.  People were stuck everywhere.  I made to my exit but got stuck a little more then halfway up the small hill to the park.  Of course my phone was dying too.  I swear I willed the van up the hill (seriously only like 30 yards).  It took me 40 minutes of wiggling up but I made it and went home and took a long bath!

Some more pictures are below:

































Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Valley Falls WV


We took a road trip to visit Mike's Grandpa.  On the way we stopped at Valley Falls in Fairmont, WV. It was a little out of the way but we had been locked up in our house sick for a few weeks so we were itching to get out.

Unfortunately the road down into the park was closed and there was no way around it.  The road is about a mile.  So we walked.  Not too bad on the way down but on the way back it is a mile straight up hill.  It was rough carrying the kids back.  We had to hurry because we were already late to visit Grandpa.


The park was nice and we hope to visit again when the road is open and the weather is a little warmer.




Sunday, January 27, 2013

Rest of our vacation


Here is the rest of our vacation pictures.

The kids loved swimming.  The weather was perfect for swimming, esp. for December.  We have never really swimmed on our other December trips.  It was always too cold.  Most days it got into the low 80's so it felt good to swim.



Here is a shot of our hotel...All Star Sports.



it had a mini football field that hayden liked playing on.


The kids had a blast in the arcade.  Amelia loved driving cars.  No money needed for her.
Our room was a little crowded but we did ok.  Amelia would just trash the place every night!

We went to downtown disney one night.  We ate at Wolfgang Puck Express and did some shopping.

Kids liked the lego store.  The big incredible hulk out of legos was cool.


So was Woody and Buzz
We had a blast this trip.  Hayden still talks about it.  Amelia likes to look at pictures. If she sees a princess one she scream "rella" (for Cinderella).  She loves to see the castle pics and mickey, minnie, and donald pictures.

A few more Misc pics: