Please ignore the crazy mom in the background. I was a wee bit excited
She was SO excited...as were we.
She was close at the end of last summer. It's hard at our house for her to ride with all the hills. So, it took one night at this flat track and she got it. Needless to say, she is way into it now. It's very exciting.
It brought back a lot of memories for me when I learned how to ride. Do you remember how freeing it was? I was re-living all that while watching her.
Next up was Valentines Day. Erik and I celebrated the weekend before at my mom's lakehouse for the weekend. I am glad we chose that weekend because it was gorgeous!!! Perfect weather, relaxing time, good company.
Once lakeside selfie to commemorate the weekend.
Valentines Day weekend, Elaina's friend Laurel stayed the weekend with us. They made Valentines oreo cake pops..
As usual when Laurel comes over, they love to make us breakfast. This was on Valentines Day so it was a celebratory breakfast. This time (unlike last time) they made the coffee and tea last so it wasn't cold :) Laurel said "my daddy told me that next time we do it we should make the coffee and tea last."
They even rolled the silverware up in napkins
Next up for the day...they delivered their oreo cake pops to the neighbors.
It was so nice. They were able to pass out a few to the neighbors. Elaina kept saying "let's go sell these." I had to remind her several times that we were GIVING them away. Lol
And, then sometime during the days following Valentines Day, we got a lot of snow.....and ice....and some more snow. Like last year, school was called off a lot. It was nice...and at times not so convenient because I was out of town for some of those days which makes it hard on Erik
Anyways...on to the snow...
Erik showing off his photography skills...very nice!
There was lots of playing in the snow but it was always short lived...it was COLD!
snow angel
Her friend, Katherine, came over one day - can you see the love?
Icicles
Yum!
And we did some sledding one of the days... this is the best video from the day. There were lots. I must say, we have a pretty great sledding driveway.
Ginormous icicle
And finally...while I was out of town Erik took this picture of Elaina (I mean, Elsa) in the snow. Aunt Kate's idea....Cute. You can see how cold she looks, I mean frozen - Ha!
