Monday, February 16, 2009

MOPS Retreat

What a beautiful view!  For our MOPS retreat, we went to a cabin in Gatlinburg for 2 nights.  This was the view when the sun was coming up on Saturday morning.  It was so nice to get away with some wonderful friends.  We had a great time just shopping, hanging out, eating, playing cards, and watching movies.  Thanks for a short break from reality girls!

Snowman!

Jarett & Kate rolling her snowman together.
Kate standing on top of the bottom ball.
Kate & Daddy posing for Mommy.  I love this picture!
Kate & Daddy with the snowman finished!  The next day, Clay & Paul brought over a scarf and hat for the snowman.  Kate LOVED her snowman!  She was so excited that Daddy got home from work early on the snow day and they got to go outside and build a snowman.  She also got to have hot chocolate afterwards.  What a great day for her!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Winter trip to Nashville

Kate & Ava with their self portraits.  We took the girls to Cheekwood Art & Gardens in Nashville.  They have a free art project for kids on Saturday's so we took the girls.  The project on that day was to create a self portrait (interesting).  It was really more of a Mommy project.  But they had fun and really enjoyed it.  (They loved wearing matching shirts too -- so cute).
Ava & Kate watching "Fly to the Moon" after a busy day (and no nap for either of them).  Ava was an LSU cheerleader and Kate was Cinderella.  They were pretty much in costume at any point that we were at Shannon's house.  They had such a great time.  And Kate loved the movie (although she really didn't want to watch it).  So sweet when they are calm!
On Sunday, we took the girls to the park because the weather was so beautiful!  Ava & Kate loved swinging and stayed in the swings for most of the time.
Kate & I went to Nashville for the weekend while Jarett had inventory at work.  I knew he'd be working most all weekend so I figured it would be more fun for us to go visit Shannon, Greg, & Ava.  We had a great trip.  It came at a good time for the Meadow's also.  One of their sweet dogs, Minnie, had to be put to sleep Thursday night before we came.  She had a very aggressive form of cancer.  So it was good to give them a distraction for the weekend also.  Thank you Shannon, Greg, & Ava for letting us come visit!  We had a great time!  

Kate throwing snowballs with Daddy

It was really cold by the time Daddy got home and we ate dinner.  So Kate got all bundled up to go outside and was sooooo excited!
Most of our snow had melted that day by the time they got to play but she didn't care.  She just loved being outside and throwing some snow at her Daddy!  Kate loves the snow and we don't get much of it.  This was the first year she's really had any snow to see at all!  (This was the snow from my last post in January).