Ecclectic Erin

Life is SNOW Fun
January 16th-22nd

The Frozen family of 3 longed for an adventure. The wife wanted a "warm" escape (between 30 and 32 degrees Fahrenheit.) The husband wanted a quick, thrifty trip. They finally compromised and settled on Arches National Polar Park. Perfect.

My week has been quite great. We had Martin Luther King day off. Katie Jones, Maddy Keaton, and I explored IKEA. I decided that a great date would be going to IKEA for a cheap dinner, then sitting in the chairs and people watching. Quite enjoyable.

A set up at IKEA. It had the sewing machine behind the couch so that Mom can watch TV too. That's how our mom participated in family movie night while growing up :)

The rest of the night was spent going to yoga and FHE.

Friday night (no pictures) was quite fun as well. My friend Katie Albrecht invited me over for dinner where we made breakfast burritos. We then went to the BYU gymnastics match against Utah State and ended up losing by .1 points!!! I was wondering the entire time what it would feel like knowing that I would probably peak as a freshman if I were a gymnast. Interesting thought for sure.

Saturday I babysat Conrad and Nolie while the others went to southern Idaho to buy couches from Cassie's mom. We had a blast!! We did chores, played in the snow, shoveled LOTS of snow (it snowed 18 inches in 24 hours), went swimming, and drank hot chocolate.

I buried Nolie in the snow

... completely in the snow

We lacked cucumbers for Nolie's snow day at the spa so we had to settle for pieces of lettuce to get the whole "Spa" experience.

Don't tell Drew, but Bullet the cat made an appearance outside too.

My specialty was making 3 mini snowmen and an arch.

The hot chocolate that I made for the kids was quite fantastic. It had both mint and cookies and cream hot chocolate, cream, and a scoop of chocolate peanut butter ice cream to cool it. Yeah, a heavy treat, but they liked it :)