Winter Carnival

Today was the last day of the Winter Carnival in McCall. We usually go every year, but haven't been in a few years and decided to would go today. McCall is about 2 hours away. We have had icky fog and cloudy days for weeks, but when we got out of the valley and into the mountains, the sky turned a beautiful shade of blue. Look at that!!

At Winter Carnival there are snow sculpture contests. Mylie loved posing by all of them.

We had to play in the snow a little bit.

Oh how I love these three!

This was a marvelous sculpture of a bathroom. Mylie was excited to sit on the snow toilet and get her picture taken.

And take a bath in the snow bathtub.

Then we went on a wagon ride pulled by mules. Blake was very serious at first and then I put him up in the front. About 5 minutes later he noticed the mules (although I had tried to point them out to him multiple times). He got super excited!

It was a fabulous day. It was simply a gorgeous drive and the blue skies were so refreshing. Mylie and I totally had a concert in the car on the way home. Our water bottles became our microphones and we sang our little hearts out. She said that our band name should be the Princesses. She totally picks up on song lyrics and her newest sing along favorites include selections from Abba, Sugarland, Josh Turner, Kid Rock, Barenaked Ladies, and Dierks Bentley. My personal favorite is when she sings "Come a Little Closer" by Dierks Bentley and makes her voice go really low when she sings the chorus. What a fun little girl she is!

We came home, Jeff made dinner (and a pineapple cake) and watched the Superbowl. After that I set up our new Blu-Ray DVD player that we got yesterday (happy anniversary to us). I've had our old DVD player for probably 11 years or so and it now has some definite technical difficulties. We were just going to replace it with a regular DVD player. Jeff has been replacing all of his James Bond movies on DVD (he had them all on VHS). He was down to only 2 that he couldn't' find so I was looking for them on Amazon and one of them was no longer available in DVD, just in Blu-Ray, that was the clincher! We found a great deal on a Blu-Ray player at Costco, picked up "Get Smart" on Blu-Ray for a whopping $12. We watched the movie tonight, I graded papers (and more papers).

I love the weekends. Friday night I went to a 7 hour scrapbook crop that was simply lovely. It was such fun. Saturday we ran some errands and went to dinner at Goodwood (yummy!) with Jeff's parents to celebrate Blake's birthday.

But I'm not ready for tomorrow to get here. The first few days of the week are so busy that I just don't look forward to Mondays. We have only a few weeks until we leave for Disneyland. I am so excited! I know that we have so much to do between now and then and the weeks are going to fly by!!! I'm so glad that we always spend our weekends hanging out together.