Baby's First Plane Ride

Jeanie and I took a quick long weekend to Colorado to visit Joel and his 3 girls, so the girls could have some cousin time. And so I could see my brother!

Off bright and early! I was so nervous about the flight, but we thankfully were seated next to a dad with young kids and Jeanie took a nap, so it went pretty well!

Joel picked us up and we went for lunch to Cafe Mexicali, yum.

Tengo hambre!

We enjoyed the beautiful Colorado sunshine.

Jeanie had fun exploring crawling around and eating the crumbs off a different home's floor.

With cousin Ellie, this girl loves babies, but she kept saying "when I grow up I'm going to have no cat, no dog, no babies, just a husband." So funny! We shall see little girl :)

She loved holding her.

Molina had her 'class mascot' for the weekend so we took pictures of Spirit doing different things for the class journal. He made waffles, went in a fort, played the piano, and met cousin Jeanie :)

All the girls, this was post-nap, so some were crabby. 

Flying home!

She cried a little more on the way home because it was so late and she was fighting sleep, but this girl was a champ and did super well overall. And I even discovered a new tooth when we got home.

Meanwhile at home, Doug was potty-training August, the morning I left he had tarped the play area, and while I was off having fun he was taking him to the potty every 15 minutes, so we are well on our way to down to one babe in diapers! Woohoo!

Valentine's day

We had a nice family day before I worked the weekend. And my dad came over on the 13th too to watch the kids while we went out for dinner, so that was awesome!

Wagon ride earlier in the week

Doug gave me a valentine every day this week. 

I used to sleep with my butt up in the air too :)

10 months old!!!

My Valentine.

Family sledding walk around the neighborhood

Valentine's heart shaped pizza, never gets old. 

 And out for ice cream!

snowboarding

My friend told me about a deal that several ski resorts in Michigan partnered with McDonalds to get people out doing winter sports. An hour lesson skiing or snowboarding, equipment rental, and lift ticket for $35. What a steal!! I have asked Doug almost every winter to go snowboard with me and he always told me the same thing "I can't turn left", so I signed us up for the lesson so we could move past that :)

I learned to snowboard years ago out in Colorado by an old friend/boyfriend that I would always date when I was out babysitting for a wealthy family who had a house in Aspen, anyway, long story, but needless to say I hadn't been snowboarding in 5+ years so the lesson wasn't wasted on me. 

It was snowing, but wasn't super cold, it was beautiful!

Turns out we had a couple friend out that evening too so met up with them for a couple minutes. It was a fun evening. We didn't stay too long because we had to pick up the kiddos from Doug's parents, but I was glad we could go.

Then this week I saw on facebook that Mickey Mouse was coming to a local bar and grill. A couple friends had been wanting to meet up for dinner so we met there. It was pretty much a guy dressed up like Mickey Mouse making rounds to the tables but it was pretty neat. I don't know why, but August LOVES Mickey Mouse. For the past year or so he spots him wherever we go, on the Huggies diapers, on a cereal box, on other kids' clothes, on the top of someone's car antenna. So I thought that would be fun. He came and visited our table 3 times. 

Dinner with our friends and seeing Mickey Mouse and saved hundreds by not going to Disney, priceless! :)