Today was a most beautiful spring day; blue sky, light breeze, temperatures in the 70”s, blossoms on the trees outside my window. It even smelled beautiful outside. Winter is basically over and I’m glad, but I don’t think any of us in the west have much room to complain when it comes to this winter. It’s been extra mild this year. I think it’s still snowing back east as of today, but I promise I’m not trying to rub it in east-coasters.
I haven’t blogged much about our winter activities this year. I thought for recording purposes I would just recap some things from our winter so we can file away the memories and jump into spring (my favorite season).
Reflection pool at Temple Square
Christmas was lovely (and busy). So busy in fact, that I didn’t record hardly any of it. I barely even used a camera. We did have a lovely holiday season though. We did all the traditional things…temple square, neighborhood bonfire, MoTab Christmas concert (with the boys this year), Christmas Eve at my parents, etc. On Christmas day we attempted to travel up north to visit family, but a winter storm forced us to turn around so we went back home and made chicken noodle soup for those family who are close by.
Christmas Eve PJ’s
Santa came
At the beginning of December the kids had a piano recital. They worked like crazy on their songs. The boys did a duet; a version of Jingle Bells. They quite hate duets, but I quite love watching them play together so I force them to do one every once in a awhile. MK even did a duet with her teacher…an amazing version of Chop Sticks which included some fancy moves and running around the piano bench.
I already did a blog post about MK’s play and about skiing, but they are worth mention again because both were activities that filled up much of our winter and brought lots of fun times and memories with them. Mike took the kids skiing last Saturday and I’m pretty sure it will be their last ski of the season.
Wizard of Oz songs and references have been heard at our house all winter long
February was crazy busy, but I managed to pull off our family Valentine’s Day dinner, and we made sure to find time for love notes. These notes are what has made Valentine’s Day my new favorite holiday. I love when my kids are sweet to each other.
The boys will be 11 years old in two weeks (what the??) and they finished the requirements for their Arrow of Light award just in time. They have officially moved on to 11 year old Scouts. They have loved Cub Scouts and have been lucky to have great leaders who have helped them along the way (since their mother isn’t much use in this area). Now Mike is their Scout leader and they couldn’t be happier about that.
A couple weeks ago, Mike and I celebrated our 19th anniversary. We took a quick trip down south to Escalante (Calf Creek Falls), Capital Reef National Park and ate at Hell’s Backbone Grill. We’ve done this trip before for our anniversary and liked it so much we went for a repeat. Maybe we’ll make it a tradition. Southern Utah is perfect in March! (Thanks to Mom and Dad for coming down and entertaining the kids while we were gone)
These were the major highlights of our winter. It really was a pleasant one. My walking partner Heidi and I walked outside most of the season, only having to resort to the track a handful of times. I tried to soak in all the sunshine while it was around. That’s what I’m trying to do in life right now, just trying to soak in all that is good and calm, because life is good.
2 comments:
What a wonderful winter it's been!
That's a good winter! I'm glad someone had a good winter- ours seemed to be filled with sickness, snow, more snow, too much snow, and cold weather. Or maybe I need to adjust my attitude. No, our winter stunk. I like your winter.
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