Road trip survivors

We made it home! 3 days, 1,000 plus miles, lots of rain, 2 winter storm warnings, and a couple of hour delay while I80 was shut down, we're home after Thanksgiving in Chicago. And the craziest part? It was kinda fun :o)

We set up the car so that I could sit in back to keep the girls entertained, allowing for some pictures of activities:

as well as some epic nap shots

We managed to take a reasonable number of breaks. Some at cool sculpture gardens right off the highway (thank you Amy for the tip)

...and some in walmart when it was pouring rain outside and we didn't have any better options.

We even got to play on a really big boot!

All and all, WAY better than anticipated. We're all pretty happy to be back in park city though, even if there was a foot of snow to deal with in the driveway :)

Sunshine and snow

We had some fabulous weather here over the weekend. A little left over snow, plus lots and lots of sunshine. It was excellent for playing both with each other...

...and all by one's self

Morning calisthenics

Sometimes the best fun happens as you're waking up for the day

We have cute girls

Things have been kinda crazy around here and likely won't slow down much until after we get back from Thanksgiving, so here are a couple of recent pictures of the girls to tie us all over. They're still pretty cute :o)

Her own path

Having never been a dancer myself I had never really thought about dance lessons for the girls. But maybe I should be....

We were getting ready for temple last night and I pulled a pair of black dress shoes out of the hand-me-down bin. Out of the blue she goes "tap shoes!", and this is what followed.

Visitors

One last catch up post :o)

Weekend before last Leslie came to visit, and it was awesome.

We helped to set the world record for the world's longest shot ski:

We checked out the Olympic museum at the hill near our house...

...and we caught Leslie up on all the Max and M snuggles she'd been missing.

We're already counting the days until her next visit :o)

Zoo

You might have noticed we frequent the zoo. It's definitely been one of those few memberships you buy where you actually get your money's worth :o) The girls and I had a fabulous visit this past weekend.

The sculptures were a huge hit as always

Especially when the live lions though m looked an awful lot like a tasty treat

Luckily c was there to protect.

And show her the way back to the herbivores.