Snow Over It

Yep. This post deserves a corny title. I am SO over the snow/ice here in Texas.  I know my friends elsewhere will laugh at this-but most of you know the ice skating rink that our roads become. 

Last week we had snow/ice days Monday-Wednesday, and Friday-Saturday. Add in the stomach bug that we had on Thursday, and it was a l-o-n-g week! 

Alas, here are a few cute pictures of the few moments we did run outside to play! 

The excitement was real on snow day 1! (It was all ice, but we pretended!)

A picture of the girls was even tweeted by the local news station!

After that, we spent a LOT of time cuddling and watching too much tv!

And we may have taken a few selfies as well ;)

The next day there was real snow. We made a snowman (and ate him!)

Followed by...more cuddles of course!

We went to my moms Thursday night. My stepdad watched the girls while my mom and I went to a consignment sale.  We were not expecting bad weather, and intended to go to Arlington to see Mark's family on Friday. The weather ended up getting bad pretty quickly. We ended up staying at my moms until lunchtime Saturday when we could safely drive home!

Gator played Hungry Hippos for a while!

Gaga made the girls "snow" cones and they loved them!

Now that it is March, I thought we would for sure be past winter weather...but now they are saying there may be another round coming tomorrow. Crossing my fingers that it is nothing!

Ballet

We decided this semester was a good time to enroll Ashlynn in her first "activity". She turned 3, and can participate in a variety of classes.  We had originally wanted to sign her up for soccer, but did not want to go to an 8 am soccer game each Saturday. (Sorry Ash...I will pay for counseling related to that remark someday I am sure!) Instead, we decided to sign her up for dance, with her "best" Addie!

This is Ashlynn before her first class!

And here she is in class!

Here she is getting ready for another class!

It has been a fun experience to join our first class. We will probably try out something a little faster paced (I found a weekday soccer class!) in the fall, but it has been a good experience so far!

Headed home & the girls

On our last day, we woke up, headed to the airport and flew home! Poor Mark was NOT feeling well, and sleep the entire 5 hour flight home :/

We had a few special visitors when we got to the airport!

And speaking of the girlies, they were well taken care of while we were gone! They got to spend the week at Gator & Gaga's! Here are a few pictures we got while we were gone:

Ashlynn watched an episode of Peppa right before we left where Peppa had a sleepover and they did facials. She told my mom that she couldn't come for a sleepover unless they did masks ;)

The girls had such a great time, and we were (are) so thankful that my mom and Arthur watched them and loved them while we were gone! 

Puerto Rico Day 5

We spent the day of day 4 hiking in the rainforest. It was beautiful, and not near as hot or rainy as we expected!

There was a waterfall, where you could sit on rocks and go for a swim.  We stopped there for lunch.

That afternoon, we went to McDonald's (Again!) and then got ready for our Bio Bay Tour. Getting to the parking area for our tour was The.Most.Stressful. car drive of my life. Praise the Lord we made it in one piece (although a little late!)

When we signed up for a bio bay kayak tour, for some reason I was anticipating that it would be a quick kayak out into the ocean, and then the water would glow. Not so much! We kayaked through a tunnel of mangrove trees and into a lagoon.  On the way out it was pitch black, and you only knew which way to go based on the  glow stick on the kayak in front of you!! I am SO thankful that Mark is patient, and was willing to kayak most of the time, because I was nervous!

After our tour, we went to a great restaurant with a patio. It was such a great ending to our trip!!