Sweet Readers (all 9 of you, HA!)... it's been awhile. It's not that we've been too busy. We've been up to lots of things. Cooper went ice skating sat on the ice with his preschool. Olivia started dance class where she mostly wants to be held, which is of course the opposite of when she's at home. We had friends and family come to visit. Olivia wore pigtails for the first time, it lasted at least 2 minutes. We celebrated Valentine's Day, we lost a portion of a tooth, we had a birthday. We had snow, we had sun! We had a beautiful winter. What's that you say... you want to hear about the broken tooth? So do we, but she can't talk yet. We didn't even take our eyes off of Olivia. We were in the same room, the same five foot vicinity, the same breathing space, and somehow Olivia broke a portion of her tooth. We may start calling her 'Snaggletooth' but we're not sure yet how that might affect her in the future.

A couple weekends ago Ryan and I went up to the mountain for our first snowboarding trip since we lived here. Only it was less of a snowboarding trip and more of a really long drive to the snow. It was blowing forty mile per hour winds and for a good portion of our drive up the mountain we couldn't see anything. I really love snowboarding, but I don't enjoy paying money to spend my whole day miserable due to wind and vertigo like conditions. Ryan, being the good man he is just drove back down the mountain. We stopped for some pictures which didn't really make up for it.

For my birthday last weekend, I got to hang out with the family. We had great food all weekend. We took some good walks around the neighborhood and we got to go on a great hike. It was almost two miles and Cooper did the whole thing by himself. It was an awesome weekend. On our walk to get ice cream on Sunday night, we were both saying what a perfect weekend it was. There is an ice cream place by our house that mixes the craziest flavors together, one that comes to mind is pear and blue cheese. They have some more normal ones (things like caramel, etc) so I can appreciate the place as well. The one I tried on Sunday night? It was a rainbow sherbet, invented by a local second grade class. I tried it because the rainbow of flavors was that of my favorite candy... Skittles... TASTE THE RAINBOW. Ya, it was good.

Here are a bunch of pictures from the last few months.

I'll try not to stay away so long next time.

~Ahna