Snow day = sledding fun!

Last night it started snowing and didn't stop until late afternoon today... almost 10 inches later we decided to take the boys sledding for the first time. And it was Rich's first time too!!!! Both boys had a blast- there were a lot of tears on the way home because these cold snow bunnies did NOT want to stop playing. We made sure to warm them up with hot chocolate by the fire when we got home :)

Dex looks like a starfish here. We had SO many layers on them!

He had his giant grin on his face each time he went down the hill

Until he face planted, but that didn't even stop him- he just wanted more.

Our boys first snowball fight... although it was more just throwing snow in each other's general direction-


Hi cutie!

And Rich's first sledding experience... This hill was for the adults only.

His sled went off the path and he got COVERED in snow

Me after the giant hill. We were going so fast Rich was afraid he's sled right onto Grand.

Clark was actually pulling Dex in the sled here... so cute!

Sledding together

Apparently we have more snow coming, so maybe we'll get to do this again over the weekend!

Here I Go Again!!!

I have officially signed up to run my next full marathon: the San Diego Rock N Roll Marathon on June 5th. I will be training through Team in Training again in honor of sweet little Aubrey Rae Deno. I know if you're friends with me on Facebook you're probably familiar with her story... but just in case. One of my friend's little girls was diagnosed with ALL last summer. She went into remission the day before we left for San Fran but is now fighting for her life because of complications from the chemo.

CLICK HERE if you want to follow her CaringBridge page. And her Dad Dustin is on the board at a charity that is in the running to be awarded $250,000 that will go towards Leukemia research.

CLICK HERE if you want to vote for his idea (you can vote once per day).

My two running partners and I decided that this time we wanted to be mentors for our team. While that makes our personal fundraising goals smaller we are responsible for ensuring our entire team reaches theirs. The only reason I was successful last time was the amazing and generous support of our friends and family, and I am asking you guys to help me once again. CLICK HERE to see my personal fundraising page, and I've also added it to a tile on the side of this blog. Thank you for your help, and I will keep you guys posted on my fundraising, running and above all sweet little Aubrey!

Snow Ice Cream

Yesterday was a snow day here in STL. We got enough to make the roads bad and shut down all the schools, so we decided to make the best of it. After the boys woke up from their naps we made some snow cream. YUM. I found a bunch of recipes online but we used: a big bowl of fresh snow (gathered real carefully :) sugar, milk, vanilla extract and some white chocolate chips. I wish we had regular ones, but these were good too... The boys had so much fun!

Here they are stirring up the snow, we used the dining room table since I was in the process of making chili in the kitchen and it was a mess :) OH, and these are cell phone pics... hence the terrible quality!

The finished product...

And eating it of course!

After some messy bites the boys decided drinking it was a faster snow cream delivery system. HA.

Playground fun

One of the beautiful sunny days we were in FL we headed to the park for some playtime with Grandma, Grandpa & Cousin Bella. Just looking at these pictures makes me miss this weather... right now it's snowing outside!

Everybody was a big fan of the swings... Clark likes to go "real high" on the big boy swings.

Bella had the best time crawling all over the playground bridge-

Dex liked going down the slide head first to "Great Gram" which is what he started calling Grandma half way through the trip?!? Great Gram of course became Great Great Gram, haha.

Hey buddy!

Clark loved going down the slide holding Bella's hand

And Dex was able to climb all by himself!

Brothers

Bubble time

Uncle Joe

The boys think Uncle Joe has the coolest job ever, and LOVE to visit him at work. This time they got to "drive" the truck, climb on top and play with the ladder, and make the hose work... and then of course, splash in the puddles. AND, this firehouse is right next to train tracks, which makes it the coolest place ever for this pair of dudes, they were in awe of the train going by.

Hanging out on top of the truck

Yes, Clark was trying to spray Dex with the hose.

Playing with Grandpa

The boys LOVED playing with their Grandpa (or Papa as Dex calls him) while we were in FL. They raced cars, had glow-stick parties once the sun set, played dinos and choo-choos too.

Miss you guys!!! After the 19 degree weather we had here this morning, we miss being able to play outside too...