Happy Birthday Sierra!

It was a fun filled day yesterday for Sierra's Bday Party. We went Ice Skating in the afternoon in a open pavilion in Longmont. A little windy out there, but the above average temp of 50 degree's made it not so bad. Everyone had a great time skating, even Thalia now is going at it with a cool little device that helps keep her balance on the ice.

After skating we came back home and cooked up a proper Italian meal for everyone(per Sierra's Bday dinner request). I can still taste the garlic this am, which is not soo much fun but it sure was good going down.

OK, we couldn't find the candles so she had to settle for one...one little candle the girls made in a class!

She can be one again, I'm fine with that...

Mo is watching the Zamboni going by...totally memorized by it

Climbing with Savannah and Sophia

I'm using a new lens and film for my Hipstamatic App. Its supposed to be for food photography, but I liked the blurred edges(kinda like tilt-shift lens) so I couldn't resist spending 99 cents on it. I used today to capture Savannah and Sophia's time at the BRC Climbing Gym with me.

They both had a great time, I'm not sure if they enjoyed the slide or actually climbing more. The slide is used for those that climb up the boulder wall and reach the top, and "Top out". Then they can just take the slide down to the bottom instead of walking all the way around, down the stairs and back to the bouldering area.

Sophia, almost to the top

Savannah trying a rock problem in a small chute or chimney

Sophia swinging and bouncing as the Auto Belay device lowers her down

More sledding fun

More fun this afternoon! This time I saw in our storage room a Kelty Camping Mat as I reached for my snowboard. Hmmmmmmmmm...yep were giving it a go! It worked great! See below some antics with it. Even Momma took it for a spin! Woot!

It started getting dark and so these next few are getting blurry, but the good old hipstamatic app on my phone still make them look pretty cool..

Merry Christmas from the Milam Goats!

Grape and her little girl saying Merry Christmas!

ROOSTER SAYS MERRY-A-DOOLDOL- DOOOOOOO!!!!

Merry Christmas!

Here are a few shots before we broke out all the presents. This year we did something completely different and didn't buy a tree. The kids and I bought materials and made 2 trees! Ok, they are small and it might seem a little silly but what prompted this originally was our little one year old, Mosiah(A.K.A. Mr. Mo). We knew he'd end up pulling the tree down on himself so we just kept putting off getting one. Christmas Eve arrived and still no tree in the house. Then the idea came to us to just make a tree this year, post it on the wall and put the presents/stockings around it.

Merry Christmas to all, may we all remember the real reason for this time of year.

This is one of my favorite scriptures...it doesn't directly have a lot to do with Jesus Christ's birth per say, but does speak about service, the kind of service that Christ demonstrated in his life.

Isaiah 58: 10-12

Snow Day

Well,
I'm off for "Staycation" this week. After the most recent storm, it finally cleared out and it was bright and crisp today....but beautiful. Here are some fun pics from today's activities. We went over to the local sports park and found a hill to have fun on.

 This property we are on is a heritage house(behind the sports park) that the kids worked at this fall a few times. There is a great trail and a barn across the way. Very picturesque in the winter and spring.