pics from the weekend

there has been tons of free kids activities around town with the holidays this month.  we've been trying to take advantage of all of them.  friday night there was a showing of charlie brown's christmas or a christmas music event at our church.  we picked the event at our church even though it wasn't free but it was for a good cause.  our church collaborated with the boulder symphony for a fun holiday music show.  in my mind i thought it was "jingle, bells" and "santa's coming to town" which right now lucys favorite song is jingle bells.  it turned out to be traditional christmas songs and hymns.  still very beautiful and lucy sat through the entire hour and forty-five minutes of.  halfway through nate and i looked at each other and both thought the same thing, should've picked charlie brown! lol!  afterwards we walked down the street for our favorite nutella desert.

the next day lucy got to see santa on pearl street.  she literally ran up to santa and had the biggest grin sitting there in his lap.  that evening she got to see santas reindeers and santa again at macys.  what a treat to be able to see santa twice in one day!

we skipped church sunday and decided to head to denver to the museum of nature and science.  now why haven't we been there sooner?  awesome place!

we had a fun filled weekend.

she can't get enough of her gingerbread house.

"o christmas tree, o christmas tree forever green your branches…"  at least let's hope so this year.  we picked the coldest day of the year to go get our tree.  it was single digits and lucy was shivering the whole time.  sometimes we fail miserably at putting proper clothes on our child.  we thought she'd be warm?? fail.  she was still pretty excited about it though.  leading up to the day she kept talking about decorating the tree with "O-NA-MENTS" and putting purple lights up (her favorite color).  she never stops talking about her favorite color or pointing out whatever "PU-PLE" (silent r) thing she spots.  she was pretty excited to find santa at the tree farm too!  she had her first taste of a candy cane.  we picked out a pretty tree and they roped it to our roof and we hurried home to get it into water.  we are having way better luck this year and the tree is still looking pretty good.  last year our tree died within a few days.  we've always had fake trees until we moved to boulder and didn't bring our tree, not that it would have fit anywhere its 14'.  i've enjoyed the real trees the last two years.  they sure do smell good!  and doesn't require as many O-NA-MENTS to decorate!  

there's been lots of christmas activity around here lately.  lucy's constantly talking about going to see santa.  fortunately santa is down on pearl street every saturday.  and we've spotted santa quite a few times lately here and there.  we were downtown for the parade of lights last weekend and despite the single digit temps we had a lot of fun.  lucy enjoyed it quite a bit and didn't want to leave.  tonight we went to the library and watched a free holiday dance show.  did i mention i love our library! 

i can't believe it's two weeks 'till christmas!

look at the three little ornaments lucy put up all right next to each other, so cute

gingerbread we decorated at church for advent brunch

first christmas gift under the tree! it lasted 5minutes.  we are NOT putting any more presents under the tree until lucy goes to bed on dec. 24th

there is nothing like the feeling of being on the chairlift headed up for your first run of the season.  we decided to spend thanksgiving at beaver creek since we have no family around.  it was their opening weekend and there were plenty of festivities that were great for lucy too.  lucy actually looked forward to "mountain school" everyday.  we called daycare "mountain school" to drum it up a bit.

we had a lot of fun checking out beaver creek, our goal is to visit all the different mountains and find our favorite.  beaver creek is a great mountain for kids, they sure know how to spoil kids!  chefs in white hats handed out warm chocolate chip cookies everyday at the bottom of the runs at closing time.  there was free smores at our hotel every night right after the cookies and every morning we walked down to hot chocolate in the lobby.  needless to say lucy loved it!  we'll definitely consider beaver creek next year when lucy begins ski school.  the way ski school is set up is super convenient for parents and they have a dedicated gondola for little ones to get up the bunny slope.  pretty clever so they don't have to tackle getting on and off a lift just yet.  all in all we were spoiled and had a great time over thanksgiving.  of course as soon as we got home they got hit with a foot of snow!  looks like we'll just have to get back up there sometime soon.

all my iPhone pics are acting funny here on blogger.  blurry.  probably from me sending too many pics at once.  oh well.  

she really like these frogs, she wanted to take pics with them everyday

hotubbing

trying to get lucy to make snow angels

she's got her own little season pass!

i think this might be the first time lucy's made a snowman? well at least with me.  hmmm, i need to step up my game here.  we need to get outside more!  today was one of those glorious winter days in colorado!  sun out, warm outside despite the thermometer saying 50. 50 degrees in colorado is like 60+ back home.  something to do with the humidity and elevation i think?  i saw kids out with t-shirts.

i forgot to bring her mittens, and she still kept wanting to make snowmans.  that snow is definitely snowman and snowball making snow.

"super cute shirt auntie sun sun got me, i love the heart!"

we ran around town this weekend, trying to find a place that would service our boards.  little did we know everyone else had the same idea.  we planned a trip up to beaver creek over thanksgiving next week.  we couldn't get our snowboards in anywhere, you'd think in a town with probably over 10 ski shops or more we'd find somewhere.  oh well our boards are fine really nothing major.  nate and i really don't need to be going too fast anyways with both of our left knees not in the best conditions.

we also popped into the new h&m.  man there clothes are cheap, not the greatest quality though.  while waiting for nate in the dressing room i had a flashback of when me and all the girls were at h&m shopping for melissa's bachelorette party.  and sunara's pregnancy announcement there.  fun night fun times!  

we went down to pearl street last night for the lighting and santa clause.  lucy didn't seem as thrilled as she was last year at seeing santa.  she's feeling a little under the weather can't blame her.

what's going on with your hair lucy?