Snow, Snow and More Snow

Well, this desert girl has gotten a taste of a real winter this last week.  WOW!  This all started last week.   The first storm blew in early Thursday morning.  It was dropping 2-3 inches per hour at times.  Matt got up to check everything at 6:30 and said that it had barely started sticking.

this is the picture after about an hour of snow.

This is at about 1-2pm

This first storm dropped about 12 or so inches of snow very quickly.  It pretty much shut things down on Thursday.

I made these Blavaclava's for Matt and Cami.

 The plows came in our parking lot  and cleared our parking lot.  Its great that it is a benefit of living in an apartment style community.  The only bad thing is that I ended up having a 3 1/2 ft snow drift behind my car.  It took me about an hour to dig the car our on Sunday morning. Thanks to our friends the Claycamps for lending us a couple of shovels, since they were sold out all over town.

A little melting happened sunday.  Here is some playing over the weekend

 Our next winter storm came Monday night/Tuesday morning. They were forecasting upwards of 18inches in some parts of the city and possible power outages.  luckily we only got about 10 inches here.  We had a few flickers of power surges, but nothing major.

Here is a bobcat hauling snow into a huge truck and they hauled it away.  

Valentines Day

Happy Valentine's day.  We are so lucky and blessed to have so much LOVE in our life.  Valentine's day was pretty low key.  We had heart shape toast with strawberry jam, made heart shape cookies and we bought the girls a few treats for when they got up in the morning.

grandpa's girl

Reese is grandpa's girl.  She will lean to go to him regardless of who else is holding her and will snuggle and sleep on him...which she does rarely with anyone else.

a break in the cold

Although it has been pretty cold here, we have had a couple of extraordinarily beautiful days.  It has been wonderful to venture outside and enjoy in a little movement and fresh air.

Here are a couple of pictures of the girls at the park.

The day after this it rained all day.  The day after that it only got to about 19 degrees for the high.  It was a dirty trick by old man weather.  He gave us just a taste of spring.

This week we have had a nice day to play outside.  We ventured to a new park.  I didn't take any pictures, but we are anxious to go back and take daddy.

Reese

Reese is a big time mover and shaker.  She definitely keeps me on my toes.  Apparently it is more fun to sit in the upstairs toy basket than to play with the toys.

Ballet, Tap & Tumble

So, for Christmas my mom got Cam ballet lessons.  We have kinda gotten to the point with our kids that they have SO many toys, I have been trying to think of experience type gifts rather than things!  So anyhow...  I came across this 8 week dance lesson package through our county parks and rec dept.  It seemed like the perfect length to try and see if Cami enjoyed it.  We signed up for classes tuesday mornings from 11-11:50.  We thought it'd be a nice break for Cami and allow mommy some good one on one time with Reese to run errands around the dance studio.

So we have been anxiously awaiting the day, we get all dressed and drive over there....and there was no one there (except for 2 other moms with excited 3 year olds).  Apparently there was a miscommunication between the dance studio and parks and rec.  So needless to say we were very disappointed. The next day the dance teacher called and said that Cami could join her Wednesday evening class.  It is the same age group, but an ongoing class.  So away we went.  We have been to 2 classes so far and she has loved it.  She gives us a lesson as soon as we get home.  

Girls Update

I know what you are thinking....'girls update' your blogs are always about your girls.  What can I say.  

Cami will be four in about 3 month. I can't believe it.  She is so smart.  We have opted out of preschool thus far.  We have felt that she is well adjusted that she doesn't need the social part of preschool and I have been working with her on basic stuff as often and we can fit it it.  She recognizes every letter and can tell us the sound each letter makes.  She also can write every letter and numbers 1-10.  She also knows how to write her name, her sisters name, mine and Matt's from memory.  She love make believe play and has the greatest imagination.  We are always playing hotel, restaurant or family where she is the mommy.  She is also showing signs of athleticism.  Several times awake she does batting practice in the basement with dad.  She uses a plastic bat and he pitches a tennis ball to her.  She has been doing so great, so great in fact that we have had to change to a hollow plastic ball as we are afraid she was going to break something.  She recently started dance class (I'll post on that later). We read a lot, and go to the library about once every 10 days or so.  She is kind, very sweet and so tenderhearted.  She loves her sister and is a great big sister.

Reese is a pistol.  She is adventurous and fearless.  She thinks she can do everything her sister does.  She is a speed crawler and speed cruiser, but no walking yet.  She is 10 1/2 months old and still has no teeth, so that has been frustrating for her and exhausting for us.  Her fine motor skills are remarkable.  She can pick up and ball rolled to her and throw it back.  She gets into everything and we've already had to put up the baby gate up to keep her in one place (something we didn't have to do with Cami until closer to her 1st birthday).  She is an eating machine!  Matt and I are counting down the days until she can have cows milk because she is eating us out of house and home with all the formula she is going through.  

Here is a side by side of Reese and Cam about the same age