We started off the weekend at the Disney Live Rockin' Road Show in Denver. All of the girls favorite characters were there. It took them a while to figure the whole thing out, but by the second half of the show they were up and dancing in the aisles.
The girls at intermission
Nova bouncing to the Tigger song
Juneau thinks that if you really, really like a song you should clap above your head. She really really liked the Tigger song too!
After the show we spent a few hours in the car driving to the little ski town of Steamboat Springs! This weekend is the winter festival (which turned out to be both good, and bad). The local high school students had carved ice sculptures all along the main street.
Catching snow on their tongues!
June-bug was really into trying to catch the snow flakes. She walked all around town with her tongue hanging out.
For the festival the town actually brings in tons and tons of snow to cover main street. then they shovel it out each night, and do it again the next day! Here you can see Main Street is sut down, and completely covered with snow.
The primary event of the day was Skijoring, which basically means the contestant gets pulled around on skis. I was hoping they would be using Sled Dogs to pull the kids, but they used horses for this competion. Nova and Juneau both loved being right up close to the action when the horses came running by pulling the kids behind them!
After hanging out on Main Street we headed up to the natural Hot Springs that are located downtown. This was clearly the best days of Nova's little 21 months of life. Her original best day was when we found the perfect curly slide while traveling from California to Colorado. I think the hot springs might have actually topped the curly slide. The springs are 102 degrees, and they have built a wonderful pool (with waterslides and a rock climbing wall) around the springs. It was so weird to be in swimming suits and playing in the pool while snow was literally falling all around us.
most of these pictures look a little blurry due to all the steam coming off the water
Nova's favorite part was the Hot Tub that had built in waterfalls
She loved every single second of the Hot Springs!
My big plan for the weekend was to go tubing in the afternoon after the hot springs. However, due to the festival in town, the tubing company was shut down for the afternoon. i had already promised the girls we were going to play in the snow, so instead of tubing we spent a bunch of time outside throwing snowballs and running around in the snow.
"Fubu" isn't Nova's normal style, but i guess that's what you get when your momma buys your snow suit at a garage sale! :)
The girls had soooo much fun playing in the snow! Here they are making snowballs to try to throw at Daddy
Snowballs!
The little ski hill and Tubing area
Snow Angels!
Juneau wanted to be completely covered up in snow. After we covered her up she told us she was just going to lay there and go to sleep...she is our little Husky.
she really couldn't get enough of the snow!
Nova was quite pleased when she discovered you could actually eat snow
most of these pictures look a little blurry due to all the steam coming off the water
Nova's favorite part was the Hot Tub that had built in waterfalls
She loved every single second of the Hot Springs!
My big plan for the weekend was to go tubing in the afternoon after the hot springs. However, due to the festival in town, the tubing company was shut down for the afternoon. i had already promised the girls we were going to play in the snow, so instead of tubing we spent a bunch of time outside throwing snowballs and running around in the snow.
"Fubu" isn't Nova's normal style, but i guess that's what you get when your momma buys your snow suit at a garage sale! :)
The girls had soooo much fun playing in the snow! Here they are making snowballs to try to throw at Daddy
Snowballs!
The little ski hill and Tubing area
Snow Angels!
Juneau wanted to be completely covered up in snow. After we covered her up she told us she was just going to lay there and go to sleep...she is our little Husky.
she really couldn't get enough of the snow!
Nova was quite pleased when she discovered you could actually eat snow
mmmmm.....delicious
Dad and Bug
Dad and the girls
of course we had to have a picture of Cris skipping stones on this trip....except with no stones to be found he had to skip a snowball.
Dad and Bug
Dad and the girls
of course we had to have a picture of Cris skipping stones on this trip....except with no stones to be found he had to skip a snowball.
he got 4 skips out of it :)
After running around in the snow for a while we decided to make an all-out baby day, and took the girls to the McDonald's Playplace.
After running around in the snow for a while we decided to make an all-out baby day, and took the girls to the McDonald's Playplace. 
Daddy even slid down the slide with them!
The girls loved making a "choo-choo train" to ride down the slide with daddy.
So, i guess you could say we are learning to have fun in the snow! The weather has been very beautiful, and it hasn't been to cold. Tomorrow is the big even of the weekend when we try our skills at Mushing! I think we are all going to love the Dog Sled trip!
So, i guess you could say we are learning to have fun in the snow! The weather has been very beautiful, and it hasn't been to cold. Tomorrow is the big even of the weekend when we try our skills at Mushing! I think we are all going to love the Dog Sled trip!
1 comment:
OMG, we are green with envy!! I love Steamboat too; it's one of my favorite towns. That festival looks like a blast, and I'm bummed we couldn't go with you guys. Let's touch base this week. We're still considering the winter festival in Cripple Creek in 2 weeks, so if you aren't all "winter festivaled out"...but either way, I'd love to get our families together soon.
Post a Comment