1 week in.....

.... to the New Year already! I have a feeling this one in gonna fly by just like 2011 did! I must say, it's been a good week so far! We started the New Year off with a ski trip on NYE to Mt. Hood. It was both Casey and I's first time on skis :-) It was an absolute blast, from the first run to the last! Ringing in the New Year with great friends, my brother & sister was the icing on the cake.

The kids went back to school this week, which I have mixed feelings about. I really do love having them home with me but, they've been doing a little bickering lately and there's been a little sibling rivalry that makes me seriously bonkers! So with Norah in school all week and the boy at preschool a couple days, I think it's been a little better. I now know why it drove my parents crazy when me and my sibs fought growing up!!!

We have had a fabulous first weekend of 2012 too! I was off work, which always makes the weekends nicer. Friday night I got to have some girly time with some of the fabulous ladies that I work with and my sis joined us :) It was Chopstix (a dueling piano bar) followed by a little walk down 6th ave to another bar! Fun times were had by all, I really love my work friends! While we were out friday night my friend Kim told me about a snow shoe demo day at Snoqualmie Pass that her and her hubby were gonna check out. So, I told Casey about it(at 2am Sunday morning) and when we woke up we bundled up, packed some snacks, piled in the car and we took the kids for their first snowshoeing adventure! It was a blast and both kids had a super fun day, especially Norah. With a little help from Daddy she made it all the way to the top! I was super impressed by her. We got home, quickly showered and I made some cookies and it was off to one of our favorite friends' houses for a last minute get together. We played homemade( aka ghetto ;)) pictionary, which was highly entertaining! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Today has been relaxing, yay. It consisted of sleeping in for the whole family, whole wheat homemade pancakes, a trip to the gym and a long trip to the park! It was lovely. Now my handy hubby is saving us hundreds of dollars I'm sure, in repair bills. Our dishwasher was leaking and he diagnosed the problem and is now fixing it!!! So thankful he is good at that kind of stuff.


I snapped this at the park today with my phone and I just thought it was really neat how mine and the kids shadows looked. They got a kick out of it and started doing some funny posing too, I wish I would have kept my phone out and caught some of their silliness!