Staycation

After Christmas, Josh took the whole week off so that his family could come for a visit. Unfortunately, his mom ended up in the hospital for several days and they obviously could not come (she is doing better now). So we decided to have a little staycation with us all being home. Honestly, whenever Josh has taken off before it is to go somewhere, so it was SO nice to have him home for a whole week! We got to do lots of fun things around town as well. We went to a hockey game, the Cheesecake Factory, did lots of shopping (or browsing mainly), had several playdates with friends from school, went to Medieval Times on New Year's Eve, had a big family day on New Year's Day and we went to Snow Mountain for some tube sledding! Whew! It was so much fun!. As you can see from the picture, Grandmama and Granddady came with us to Medieval Times and we had a great time cheering for our knight and Lorelei even got a flower from our knight- that totally made her night! New Year's Day was spent hanging out at Lala, Pam and Von's house, eating lots of good food and playing with the cousins. Josh got to go to a Hawk's game that evening as well.
The next day we headed over to Snow Mountain with the kids. Yes, we did pick the coldest day of the week- with the highs not getting above 30! We were very cold but hey if you are going to go play in snow it might as well be cold right? Paxton was tall enough to go down the hills on the tubes and it was such a blast, something he probably wouldn't get to experience just being here in the south (although I have felt like I have lived at the North Pole this past week with temps in the teens everyday!) Lorelei got to play in the Little Angels section and go down a mini hill on a sled. Daddy and Lorelei built a cute little snow penguin (not a snowman) while Pax and I went down the hill. It was a lot of fun and very cold, did I mention that yet?

We had such a fun week, it was really hard to let daddy go back to work and now all of us are getting up at the crack of dawn again for school-it's been rough but I think the kids are enjoying being back at school with their friends and teachers.

My Little Snow Angel

Sliding down her mini hill!

That smile says it all!

Our Snow Penguin- pretty good, huh?

New Year's Day with the cousins

Miss Thang showing off her new earrings- gotta love those stickers!

Grandaddy and Paxton reading a new chapter book called Roscoe Riley' Rules. They were each taking turns reading the book. Paxton loves chapter books right now. I am finding all kinds of different series for him to read- I must admit I enjoy them as well!

More pics of our cutie!

Holding her new doll "Pickles". Actually it's Angelica Pickles but she doesn't really know who she is so she just calls her Pickles.