Snow, Ice & Puddles

 Snow

It has been such a mild winter, which has been wonderful for me.  Staying at home, I sort of, kind of (really do) dread the freezing cold and snowy winters.  It is hard to get out and let's just say it is not my shining season for car driving.  So far this is my kind of winter.  Mild but a little bit of snow here and there to make things festive :)  Layla really wanted snow so she has made the most of it with sledding, snowmen, snow angels and now snow forts.  In the pictures below, she is playing in her snow fort....with gardening tools?

Ice

Last week, Cassie and I took Layla and Shea to Disney on Ice.  I scored a really good deal with a coupon code (who knew you could find coupon codes for TicketMaster?) so we decided to try it out.  Cassie and I loved it.  The ice skating and stunts were really good.  Shea would have liked to see a bit more Mickey and Minnie and a little less princess action.  Layla loved the Cinderella portion of the show and her very favorite part was the grand finale where all of the prince and princesses came out.  Layla gets really nervous with anything even mildly scary so some of the parts were a bit much for her.  Layla has actually never seen a Disney movie, but we have read many of the books so she is familiar with the princesses and story lines.  But when we read the books, Ryan and I skip anything scary so she was a bit taken aback by the show.  I hope to show her a couple of the shows soon (with me doing some fast forwarding....I can't quite imagine Layla watching Ursala in The Little Mermaid).  Even with the scarier parts, she has been talking non-stop about the show since last week.  I am really glad we went.

Princess Layla?

One of my favorite parts, Cinderella in her carriage.

Puddles

Today was the last day of January and it was 55 degrees outside this afternoon.  It feels like spring is right around the corner.  Come on, groundhog!!