Snowy Days, but a few miles away.

Have I mentioned how much I love the area we live? We get hot summers, cool winters, and are only 10 minutes away from the mountains. This year, Kingman didn't get any snow. I think maybe we got a small dusting of it in the middle of the night, but I am so not counting that. But only 10 minutes up the road from our home, the tempature drops about 20 degrees. Last Sunday after church, we decided to keep the girls awake by bundling up and using our $10 plastic snow sleds to play around with in the snow.

Needless to say, the girls were STOKED! They think snow is the coolest thing ever. They tried building a snowman, but the snow wouldn't pack at all. We couldn't even pack it enough to make a little snowball. Perfect snow for snow-angels though!

There was a lot of sledding....


A TON of eating....


And lots and lots of fun!
I am so glad we went.


And the best part? A short 10 minute drive home to our snow-free roads!

Children's Museum

*These next few posts are going to be a chronological mess. January has been crazy busy and just full of fun stuff. Sadly, posting about it has been put on the backburner. I will correct dates at a later time!*

Last Saturday, Corky and I had some things to do in Las Vegas. My mom planned on meeting us there to spend the day. We ran our errands and got somethings done, then we went straight to Lied Discovery Children Museum. We spent a good 3 hours there. Gracey and Emily had a blast!

I took so many pictures, and I am sure I could talk about every last one of them, but I will spare you. We had a great time though, and if I lived in Las Vegas I would definitely purchase an annual pass.














As you can see, fun was had by all!

Look Who's Dancing

This morning was Miss Emily's first day of dance class, EVER! She was so excited to finally be able to be old enough to do what Gracey loves so much. As you can see, it was all fun and excitement before we left for class.



Emily is in the class right before Gracey. As convenient it would be to have them be dancing together (less driving) I am so glad to have Emily doing something of her very own. Her and Gracey are only 2 years apart, and the older they get the less that age gap seems to matter. Emily follows Gracey around for everything, and as much as they both seem to love that, I think it will be great to also have some things that they do on their own.

This is what we will call the "Frankenstein" pose! The other move, Emily is holding her imaginary beach ball!

Round 2

Corky is currently baking another cake! Wish us all luck!

Do you remember the great cake disaster of 2009?

It looks promising that it will be better this time around. It's the frosting part that is always tricky though! Stay tuned...

*Update* It was so good. No pictures, we dug in too quickly! Just believe me.