HOPE FAITH GRACE: Chillin' after Christmas

After Christmas, we just spent some quality time around the house letting the girls play with their new toys and the adults playing some Wii Mario Kart (of course the girls tried too!) We braved the cold air on Monday, the 29th, to go up to the snow.

Caitlin doing her Ellen dance (for those who watch Ellen show)

Mikayla playing Wii with Daddy - racing against Delilah (she says she is too little to do it by herself)

Delilah and Terris. Delilah has tried by herself and she did complete one lap before the others finished three!

Terris and Caitlin (Terris getting Caitlin used to people in scrubs for her one-year appointment)

Caitlin playing on Popcorns bed

So no place is safe anymore from Caitlin. She crawls and climbs onto everything by herself. The girls used to have a hiding place behind a chair in the play room where they would play with "chokeable" toys...but she has now climbed over the ottoman to get back there. So guess I will be getting a big playyard for the girls to play in!!

Caitlin climbing into the girls' princess chair...

and standing up in it her own self!

On Monday, we headed up to the snow. The plan was to go to a sno-park. However, as we were exiting the freeway, there was a very long wait just to get into the parking lot. So Michael headed on to the next exit which was a gas station and a restaraunt that was closed. The parking lot was full of sledding families but as we were pulling in, two cars were pulling out leaving us a very comfortable parallel parking spot!! Only problem with going to just anywhere... we saw this un-used field of snow and Michael said 'hey let's go over there'. As we were walking thinking "wow - we are going to be the first ones over there - wonder why no one else has gone over there" I looked down in the snow. I asked Michael to punch his hand down far into the snow - and he did - and he hit WATER!! Needless to say, we headed back to the crowded hills of sledders. Hiking up one of the hills, Mikayla slipped and hit her cheek on a hard mound of snow. I think you might have heard her scream from wherever you were on Monday afternoon!