Blast from the Past: July 2012

Nothing like being a year behind on your blog!  Here's a look back at July 2012 and all the fun we had...

Blast from the Past: Slippery Slope

On January 21, 2013 the snow fairies came to Cary, NC to make snow for us to sled on. It's an annual event at Bond Park that sells out fast (it was full when we tried to get tickets last year). Luckily this year we snagged tickets and were able to go with our friends Danny and Derek to enjoy some sledding. It was a pretty warm day that day and the snow quickly melted to form a huge mud puddle at the bottom of the sledding hill. In the eyes of the kids, that made it even better! We were filthy dirty when we headed back to our car, but it was a great time (and the only real snow we got this year).

Blast From the Past: Happy Birthday to Me!

I was treated to my favorite dinner that Doug makes, spaghetti and meatballs, on my birthday again this year - yum!  As Hannah said, "Mom, you even get sides." So it was a pretty fancy affair.  A delicious Whole Foods chocolate cake topped off the meal.  What a lucky gal I am.

Tooth Fairy!

Hannah lost her first tooth on Jan. 20th on the way home from the grocery store. The tooth fairy visited her that night and left her a gold dollar. Since, she lost (and swallowed) a second tooth. We wrote the tooth fairy a note explaining what happened and she left another gold dollar! This is quite a money-making scheme we've got going here.

Winter Wonderland

In January we took our second annual trip to Copper Mountain to visit uncle Greg and do a little skiing and tubing.  We were so glad to see Greg's girlfriend Sarah too.  She arranged for us to go on a nighttime sleigh ride and she braved frigid temperatures to come tubing with us.  It was a cold, but very fun trip.  On the way home we made a pit stop in Denver to visit the aquarium and then drove on to Fort Collins, CO (FoCo as the locals call it).  We were so lucky to be able to visit some wonderful friends there that we hadn't seen in awhile - the Circoras!  Hannah had a sleepover with her old friends Nico and Gianna (and baby Drew) while mom and dad laughed with Jenn and Ben about old times.  What a treat!