More Snow!!

For Weston, there is nothing better than waking up to snow...

I generally like shoveling, but it is a bit tougher pregnant. So while Eric is in Vail enjoying this fresh snow today, I was not excited to go shovel so that we could get out of our house. However, I was pretty set on getting out of the house today so I managed to shovel:) Weston was so happy to be out there and wanted to play in the backyard so bad.

It turns out it is a bit harder to build a snowman than I thought...


Trying to get a picture of all of us...

A little snow tee-ball:


When I took my hat back as we were packing up to go inside, Weston insisted that our snowman needed hair and then that I take a picture of him:

The after-snow look:

Swim Lessons!

Weston's been taking swim lessons and loving it! Before he started he was really nervous to put his face into the water and now he's all about it! There are four kids in the class and they all sit on the stairs listening to there teach and then take turns trying it out.

Weston loves his teacher, Daniel! We'll be driving to the rec. center and Weston will say, "Mom, do you think Daniel's getting his swimming suit on right now? Do you think he's driving there too?" In class he jumps all over him and lucky Daniel is very patient:) Today was his last lesson in this set and I think he might be devastated if Daniel isn't his teacher the next time around!

Valentine-A-thon

We had a great Valentine's week! (And I can't believe I'm actually posting within a couple days of the event!!)

FRIDAY-

The Friday before Valentine's I decided to have a little party with some of Weston's friends. It absolutely tore our house apart, but I think they had fun:) We played games with hearts and balloons, made valentines, had an indoor Pick Nick, and painted/frosted cookies!







SATURDAY- (not Valentines, but more celebration!)

Our friends Ellen and Jason had tickets to Cirque du Soleil so we both dropped off our kids with their grandma and grandpas and headed out to celebrate Jason's birthday with Dinner and a Show! It was so fun to get out on a date with friends. Thanks to Ellen and Jason for letting us celebrate his birthday with them!!

A note from Saturday morning- When ever I ask Weston what he wants to eat he just looks around and says something like "car," "table," etc. He thinks he's hilarious so in true Weston fashion when I asked him what he wanted for breakfast Saturday morning he said "A beautiful rainbow" thinking he was funny, but I guess I was in a good mood because I decided to make a rainbow:


Pancakes and Fruit...it was actually really good and he ate almost that entire plate:)

Monday-

Eric planned a surprise for us to do as a family for Valentine's Day and Weston could not stand the idea of surprise, but I love the idea of surprises! He just told me we'd have to leave our house by 3:30.


He did not disappoint us. We left at 3:30 and drove up to Breckenridge, CO for a sleigh ride up the ski slope and dinner! Weston has been telling me once or twice a day since, "Mom, I really liked Dad's surprise."


TUESDAY-

I don't have pictures from the actual Valentine's Day, but we did our usual thing. Weston and I made heart shaped strawberry pancakes for breakfast and we ordered a heart shaped pizza for dinner! The heart shaped pizza for Valentine's has been a tradition ever since we got married. Our first year married, I surprised Eric with it and he loved it so much that it has turned into one of the only real traditions we have!

It was a great Valentine's Day!!

Snow Storm!

It has been a fairly mild winter this year, but a couple weeks ago we got about 18 inches of snow in 24 hours. I think most everyone took a snow day. The plows don't come down our street and I think I saw one set of car tracks the entire day. We shoveled twice the first day and again the next morning. Weston was in HEAVEN!

Weston and Danger enjoying the snow. (Actually Danger was pretty freaked out!)


Trying out his sled-


He was threatening to throw a snowball at me if I took anymore pictures-

This was after shoveling twice earlier in the day-


We had a lot of fun and Eric was also in HEAVEN! He can't stand it just being cold without snow. He's probably one of the few people that loved how horrible the roads were.

Happy New Year 2011!

We celebrated New Year's Eve this year with some Ice Skating and dinner downtown. We headed down early around 5 and we're luck to have no traffic, no problem parking, and not much of a wait for dinner.

I'm not the most confident ice skater so for the sake of the baby girl I decided to just take pictures. Weston had so much fun. His favorite was for Eric to just hold him up and he would move his feet back and forth on the ice as fast as he could. All was going great for about 30 minutes until somehow they ended up on the ice and Eric landed on top of Weston. There was some blood and crying for a few minutes until a horse and carriage walked by and he was completely distracted. We ended up heading home around 8:30. We didn't even make it for the 9pm fireworks, but Weston was asleep within 2 minutes of getting to the car and we enjoyed a movie at home:)









Showing off his smashed up face...at least he's still smiling!

Happy 29th Eric!!

Happy Birthday to a GREAT husband! Between Christmas and January Eric was with us or home for about 5 out of 6 weeks. It was fantastic! We had fun, got a lot done, and just got to hang out a bunch!

When we came home from Utah after Christmas, Eric went down to his office to find it had received a make-over! I framed his diplomas and some pictures he's bought in his travels and my family came over and did all the painting and put everything together while we were out of town! I think he was pretty excited about it:)

On his birthday, my family came over to celebrate with Pizza and Kinect, and a little hopper ball.

Weston got Eric a hopper ball just like his for Christmas and was pretty excited to get it pumped up. The kid is amazing on his hopper ball and legitimately won all of us in a race:

We're expanding!!

We're so excited to be expecting a little girl coming this June!!



The day we found out she was a girl, Weston kept saying, "but I wanted a boy." over and over.

Since then he's been pretty excited for her to come. Every baby thing he sees he tells me we need to get one for the baby and he's always telling me the things she's not going to be able to do (that he can do). He usually follows it up with an offer to teach her.

I'm a little nervous about being a mom of two as I'm still trying to get down just Weston, but I couldn't be more excited for her to come!