Hitting the slopes

Later in January, Matt and I got away again.  This time, instead of sunny Arizona, we headed to Breckenridge, Colorado for a few days of skiing with our good friends Tim and Shelly and their little guy Brayden.  We missed our boys and soon realized that we just might have to take at least Ben next year to get him learning to ski early!

I quickly realized that my life as a stay-at-home mom has not kept me in as good of shape as I probably should have been to go skiing for the first time in 8 years!!!  That did not stop me from skiing most of Friday and doing a pretty good job of keeping up with everyone.  Shelly and I called it quits early enough in the afternoon that the guys were able to get in a few good runs on some blacks. . .something I did not even want to think about trying!

Saturday was a little bit tougher as I ended up fevering all Friday night and woke up feeling quite weak that morning.  I gave it a good go for about two hours and then called it quits for the weeekend . . . not quite the plan but I wasn't haven't the best luck staying upright on the slopes that morning!

Luckily we had some beautiful views from our condo at The Village so it made laying on the couch to recover and reading not so bad!  I also toughed it out enough to walk around downtown Breckenridge by myself for a few hours to do some shopping :)

All three nights we ventured out for a nice supper and I although I missed the boys by the last night, Matt and I thoroughly enjoyed our couple time, only having to share bites of our food with one another!  I'm already looking forward to next season!

His own style

So my oldest has never really cared what he wears each day.  Rare is the occassion that he has opinion about which pants to put with a certain shirt and I love sending him upstairs to get dressed himself because he inevitably grabs the shirt and pair of pants that is at the top of the drawer and puts it on!

Cooper, however, is turning out to be quite the fashionista (not sure if that is a gender-neutral term but it will have to do).  His favorite accessory these days is his rain boots which have also doubled as snow boots this winter!  He wants to wear them ALL THE TIME!!! But only if he sees them.  I keep moving them from place to (more secretive) place and if it spots them, he must put them on.

Luckily they go well with his puppy dog pajamas while playing in the kitchen :)

Fiesta Bowl...

Matt and I started out 2013 by traveling to sunny Arizona to watch our Wildcats in the Fiesta Bowl.  The night before we left, it was -4 degrees in Iowa.  Needless to say, we were anxious to get to sunnier skies and a warmer climate!

The highs were only in the 60's which was apparently "cold" to the natives! Our car rental helper even had gloves on as he handed us the keys to our bright cherry-red convertible (only one of those things is true...!)

We stayed at a resort in Scottsdale and I must say that Matt did an EXCELLENT job booking this one! Since it was still close to Christmas, the palm trees and orange trees were still lit up with beautiful lights along the driveway as we pulled in.

We had a chance to explore Old Town Scottsdale for a few hours before the game and I made my poor husband take a picture next to a cactus. . . we did not notice the STOP sign until afterwards - oh well! Then we were off to the game.

K-State fans were EVERYWHERE and I haven't had that much fun tailgating in a long time!

And even though the game ended up as a total bust for our Wildcats, we had a great time getting away together. . . with 50,000 of our closest friends!

Where does the time go ?

We've had something going most days since Christmas so blogging was the thing that had to go by the wayside for awhile...hoping to catch up now!

My baby boy turned 2 over two weeks ago already!!!  And while the terrible twos are actually in full swing this time around (Ben was easier when he turned two), Cooper is so fun to be around most days! 

We started the big day with a traditional birthday boy breakfast...cinnamon rolls!  It was a busy day overall as we had an extra 2 year old boy I watch on Thursdays, Ben had preschool and I had MOPS.  But being the crazy mom I am, when a friend invited us out to Culvers for lunch...I said yes!  It was four moms and six kids. . . and half of them came with me! 

"I'm TWO"

We then continued another tradition of a having an outdoor "birthday shoot". Last year it was gorgeous outside, this year,there was snow on the ground and it was a bit cooler.  But we only stayed out a few minutes and got a few cute shots!

1st Birthday Shoot - 2012

Luckily everyone took naps that afternoon!  I had also decided that since Matt was gone on a road trip that week that it was up to me to do something special that night since we weren't having the party until the weekend, so. . . I took my boys swimming at our All Seasons Center. (no pictures of this. . . was busy enough making sure two little boys stayed afloat!)

From swimming suits we put on PJs and then came home and enjoyed some yummy cookies for our birthday dessert!

That Saturday we had a small Curious George birthday party with our best friends and just had an enjoyable evening celebrating our two year old! Yes. . . that cake is supposed to be a monkey face, it just didn't turn out quite like the picture I found online.  The cake actually looked more like Cooper than Curious George - oh well!

All in all it was a memorable day.