Candy.

Today I took a long lunch break to take Elena on a little field trip to Cero's candy shop.

We go to learn all about how they make candy and watch all the steps too!

She liked this giant mixer that mixes the chocolate. (Note that it is empty or there would be no way to let her get this close to it! Ha!)

Look at all those boxes of chocolates!

Hmmm....which ones should we try?

Happily waiting in line for her chocolates!

We got a nice little sampling of chocolates and headed over to share them with Grandpa!! :)

Snow Ice Cream!

My friend Linds gave me this great idea to make snow ice cream with Elena today! All you need is milk, sugar, vanilla, salt and what else...SNOW! :) Elena just doesn't understand why we can't go out and play in the snow when it looks so nice out, if only she understood what a -10 degree wind chill means! This was a perfect chance to let her BRIEFLY go outside and play in the snow. We needed 5 cups of snow so I gave her a measuring cup and a bowl and let her do it all by herself!

Then we brought the bowl back in with our other ingredients.

We then slowly added 1/2 cup of milk and stirred until it was a firm sherbet texture.

Next we added 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla and a dash of salt and stirred again.

And there you have it!

It was pretty yummy! Elena and I both loved it! :)

A warm break.

As we are watching the snow come down already this evening it doesn't even seem possible that this past weekend it was almost 70 degrees outside!! We used the nice break from the cold to enjoy being outside as much as we could!

I may have created a picture monster...every time we go outside Elena runs to the porch and yells - "Take a picture of me Momma!" But it is so cute I will take all the picture posing I can get! :)

We even got to enjoy a wonderful day at the zoo!

Lots of animals were out enjoying the weather!

We are so ready for the spring!!

A weekend of firsts.

We did some fun new things this weekend! First off, we took Elena bowling for the first time! She had a blast - and so did we!! :)

Even the lightest ball was still a bit heavy for her so we had them bring out the ramp to help her with throwing it down the alley. After that she was golden - she even got a strike!!

The next day we took her to see her first movie - Tangled!

So excited to have the tickets!! :)

I want this, and this, and this... lol!

She did really well during the movie! We were both a little nervous on how she would do but she did great! She was totally into it for the first hour, then we had to take a potty break and when we got back she was a little more distracted. She did get a little loud at pointing things out to us during the movie - look a butterfly! - a horse! - a frog! - Daddy gave me an M&M!, etc... :) But for a 2 year old I think she did fantastic! Oh and the movie was really cute too!

Nothing better than watching a princess movie with our little princess!!

Later that day my parents watched Elena so that Robert and I could try something new too - the new IMAX theatre!! We went and watched the Green Hornet in 3D! Very cool - even though we look like we are ready to go skiing in these cool glasses! Ha ha!

We had a great weekend experiencing new things together!