Sushi Night!

This weekend we had a fun sushi night with our friends/neighbors, Drew, Bethany, and Quinn. When Bethany and I were thinking of what to make for dinner, we came up with the idea of sushi...little did we know what we were getting ourselves into!! Bethany and I had a great time making homemade wontons and sushi, but boy was it time consuming! Being beginners, we were a little unsure as to what we were doing, but luckily a few years ago my mom sent me a sushi book and DVD! One would think that we would have read it or watched the DVD, but we had confidence in our skills and we went for it after looking briefly at the pictures...oops! Needless to say, our rolls were not the most beautiful masterpieces, but boy were they yummy and fresh! After 3 hours of sushi making, we had 3 platters full and 4 very hungry people. It was finally time for our patient husbands to eat..at 900pm...the time we promised :) It was all worth it however as we sat by the fire, listening to music, eating sushi and enjoying wine. We had a great night with our friends and will definitely do it again...except next time Bethany and I might read the Sushi book a little more carefully :)

Quinn and Madison love to play together

A neat picture with the camera of our yummy avocado

I guess we weren't supposed to spread the rice to the end of the paper (we used soy paper instad of seaweed) but the picture is neat!

We even made homemade ice cream in addition to all the sushi...we are such little homemakers!! You can only imagine the mess we had made in the kitchen :)

A spicy tuna roll

Yummy!

We did it!! The Japanese Goddesses are done!!

We're ready to eat!

Spicy salmon and avocado

Another fun picture with the camera of our yummy rolls

Pant-less and Lovin' It!

Today for the Superbowl, our friends Lucas, Lindsay and Piper came over. Piper and Madison are both in the stage where they do not like getting dressed, especially putting pants back on after a diaper change. They both try to fight it and today, it was a battle that none of us were willing to fight, so hence...our Pant-less Girls! :) It was too cute! (Bad photo quality again since they were done with my camera phone...our regular camera's battery was dead today and I couldn't find the charger...its charging now though...I can't live too long without my camera!!)

Yogurt Girl

Madison LOVES yogurt, especially feeding it to herself! It gets a little messy, but she's working on it :)

Sledding Fun!

Last night when we went to bed it was snowing, and this morning we woke up to LOTS of snow! It was a BEAUTIFUL morning and not too cold, so we decided to bundle up, go sledding, and take a walk. The pictures are not such great quality because I took them with my cell phone, but the weather was great and the sky even turned blue while we were outside. We had a great snowy day!!

While sledding, we saw our friends Aidan and Glennis (Glennis and her mom Tracy are pictured with Madison. Glennis and Madison go to Kiki together)

We went sledding with our friends Elliot (pictured) and Casey. They even let us borrow their sled because when we went this morning to buy one they were out!!

"WEE!!"

Here she goes! Mommy was at the bottom to catch her and the hill was really not as steep as it looked :)

Taking a ride

Casey pulling Elliot

Daddy and Madison

Posing with Mommy

What a face!

The sledding field. The day was much nicer than it looks on my camera phone

Ellie wanted to play too!

Happy boy Elliot!!

"Oops I fell over!"

Standing in the snow...we got a few good inches!

Sweater!!

For Christmas, Miss Kiki (Madison's Daycare Provider), knitted this sweater for her!! Amazing!! Since the weather is SO bitter cold in Colorado today (in the negatives!), we thought it was a perfect day to wear this sweater. Madison had the perfect pair of purple pants to go with it and she just looked too cute! Miss Kiki loved seeing it on her as well :)

Posing in her sweater

Waiting at the top of the stairs for me to come up :) Every time we come up the stairs, she puts her lips through the bars to give us a kiss...she is so sweet!

Friday at the Park!

Yesterday we went to the park with our friends Anderson and Melissa. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the kids had so much fun (even though in many of the pictures Madison is not smiling)! Anderson and Madison are 3 months apart and had a great time playing together! We are so fortunate to have the occasional warm winter day in Colorado!

Watching Anderson get out of the car

The greeting :)

"Let's go play!"

Climbing up to the slide

At first Madison seemed a little unsure and in a daze :) She warmed up quickly though and loved the slide!

She kept wanting to go up the slide :)

Playing in the tunnel...I could't get a great picture of this but its a "u" shaped tunnel and Madison loved playing Peek-A-Boo on either side

Hanging out with Anderson in the tunnel

Swing time!

On the big swing together...it was so cute how they kept rocking back and forth trying to get it to move...then they kept giving each other hugs :)

A Family Trip to the Butterfly Pavillion!

Today we went to the breakfast then to the Butterfly Pavillion and had a great time seeing all the bugs! Now that Madison is down to one solid, good nap a day we have the whole first part of the day to do fun activities...it's great! We all had a fun time learning and exploring! It was a great day!

Ready to learn about bugs!

Looking at the bugs with daddy

Reading about the cockroach

"You want me to do WHAT lady?!? You're crazy!"

Madison was a lot less fearful than I was and actually pointed to "Rosie" the tarantula...daddy was no where to be found! He is TERRIFIED of spiders :)

Madison the trantula head!

This picture is out of order, but I still wanted to share it...one of the things that Madison LOVED doing in the outside pavillion area was crossing the bridges. Now that she is a professional walker she is daring by climbing up and down slopes :)

A neat picture with our new camera (well, Christmas new...)

A little clown fish

Madison loved following the fish while they swam

A HUGE starfish!

Madison got to touch one of the starfish

She really wanted to splash in the water, but she couldn't...

Having fun with our camera...

The different colors were amazing!

There were SO many different kinds of butterflies! It was neat to see how many different ones we could count

Madison of course found a drain cover to play with...

"What?!? Isn't this a toy?"

A walkin' girl!

A cute pose :)

Looks like a dragon!

We had a great family day and thought that the Butterfly Pavillion was a fun place to visit!