Happy Halloween!

Hope your Halloween was as sweet as ours!

When It Snows, It SNOWS!

Wow.

So far in my (admittedly limited) experience living in Denver, I have noticed that when it snows here, it snows!

It snowed here at my house for about 50 hours straight the past couple of days.

It seemed like everything shut down.  Schools, some stores and businesses, even Gerald's campus shut down the second day. 

It took Gerald over 30 minutes to dig the car out of the parking lot.  I guess it's really time to get our garage cleaned out so we can actually park the car in there!

When I stepped out into the snow yesterday afternoon it came up to my knees, and as high as Katelee's waist!  I think that's amazing considering there was no snow on the ground when this started!

Each day we went out in the snow for a few minutes of fun until we were to frozen to enjoy it any more.  Here are a few fun pictures to show of our snow experience!

Brrrrrrrrr!

Katelee's snow angel

My snow angel

Gerald trying to help clear a path for Katelee to walk through.

Katelee was constantly falling in the snow (sometimes on purpose) and she thought it was absolutely hilarious!

In this picture you can see how high the snow was!

We also took a picture of Katelee standing on our patio wall, so you could see how high snow was next to her - up to her waist!

The snow was beautiful.  While traipsing through the snow behind our building with Katelee I took these pictures of the snow-covered trees.

Today the sun is shining and the snow is beginning to melt, but I think we are still in for a cold Halloween!!

Littleton Historical Musuem

Last week we went with some good friends to the Littleton Historical Museum.  I am so glad that we found this place, because it is nearby, very interesting and fun, and best of all - it's free!  We will definitely be visiting again!  They have an indoor museum, complete with a little 'Children's Corner' to play in, and then outside they have two full running farms, modeled after the 1800's.  We had a great time!

Here is Katelee waving hello as she goes into the yard of the cabin.

In the hay bale maze.

Hay!

Katelee took this picture of me.  Other than the finger on the side, I think she did a good job!

This is how Katelee wanted to pose for her picture with the pumpkins.  Funny girl!

Then I asked her to pose the way I wanted her to.  :)

Looking at the sheep - a true cowgirl at heart!

Katelee watching the ducks in the water.

Oh, I love these eyes.

Katelee noticed these two little turtles on a log; 

I hadn't noticed them at all, so I'm glad she saw them!

Katelee loves to walk on things other than the ground.  :)

The sky was so beautiful!

I am in love with this pantry.

Ugh.  Being a pioneer woman is hard work!

What a fun day!

Wacky Weather

A week ago, I showed you pictures of our first major snow fall.

Luckily, by Friday, the snow had mostly melted and it was gorgeous fall weather.  We went to a nearby tourist farm for some fall fun with friends. (More pictures of that to come later).  Here are some picture I took of the vivid blue sky and beautiful fall scenery.  

Unfortunately, the weather didn't last.  We awoke this morning to winter snow storm warnings, and snow dumping from the sky.  It's so  yucky outside, I didn't want to step out there even to snap a picture, so I borrowed this picture from Channel 9 News weather site.  

I just hope the weather changes quickly again, or we might be in a for a COLD Halloween!

New Winter Clothes

Katelee is in need of a few more long-sleeved shirts for winter.  My sister, Melissa, gave me this idea and inspired me by doing this to some of her children's clothes.  I love the idea because it's easy and basically free.  

First you take two shirts.  The green one is a shirt that Katelee wore this summer, but it is a bit too short for her.  The pink and white one is from two years ago and is much too small for her now.  So, you cut off the sleeves of the too-little shirt and add them to the short sleeved shirt to make one shirt that actually fits and is long-sleeved and warm for winter.

The end result:

Katelee loves this new shirt.  

This also happens to be the shirt that she lost when we went visiting teaching and she undressed.  She only wore it for about two hours.  It's still lost, and she is still so sad about it!  Me, too, actually.