'I AM A COLLABERATIVE WORKER AT GLACIER PARK"

Yesterday afternoon when Mimi came home from school, I noticed she was wearing a stick-on nametag and was going to ask her about it but she was already upstairs changing for her gymnastic class. Then I forgot all about it. It wasn't until she was getting into bed when she asked "Mom, what is a corra-ber-ator? Cora-ber-ative? Well......anyways, I'm one of those people." We then talked about it. I'm so proud of my little chili pepper. This is definetly going into her scrapbook for sure.

SPLISH, SPLASH

Nothing like splashing in the puddles on the way home from school.
Thank goodness for rain boots.

I'M KING OF THE HILL!!!

When the lessons were done, Blake went home with his mom and Bailey. Mimi and I went down to a place called "The Pancake House" for lunch and wait for dad. By the time dad met up with us, we were through with lunch and ordered dessert. I love cheesecake (just not the baked kind nor with the cinnamon in the crust) and thought that I would try theirs out and wouldn't you know it. Baked and cinnamon. I ate anyways while Mimi polished off a big bowl of vanilla ice cream. Our favorite. Dad eats slow. Always has and always will I guess and Mimi was getting ansy just waiting so outside we went to play in the snow.

HITTING THE SLOPES

It did not occur to me until I thought about it when I was sitting in the lodge waiting for Mimi to finish her ski lessons that she has accually been taking lessons for the past four years. Even when we were living in Southern California. Two years ago when we first moved up here, Mimi and Blake took lessons together. However, Mimi continued with her lessons last year and Blake did not. It is amazing how missing one year of lessons makes a huge difference. While Mimi was speeding along poor ole Blake was having some difficulties. I think that he ended up in a beginner class again. He was feeling quite discouraged. We were trying to encourage him not to give up. I do hope that he continues with the class and not quit.

SKI LESSONS

Although Mimi and dad had hit the slopes and couple of times earlier in the season, this past Sunday was the first lesson. Here they are just hanging around waiting for the class to start. Mimi almost looks like a Japanese Ninja if you ask me. She was always complaining that her face would get cold so dad bought her a face mask.

FOOD FIGHT

Taken just before Mimi's 7th birthday party this past Saturday. Dad went to CJ's to pick up the birthday cupcakes and he made the mistake of carrying the box on its side so therefore a couple of the cupcakes were smooshed together. Fortunately we had a couple extra cupcakes in the box. With the cupcake that was damaged, I thought that it would be fun to have a food fight. At first Mimi did not know what to think, but she caught on quickly and the game was on!

RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY

The nice weather is gone and now we are back to the torrential heavy
rain and later this afternoon we are to experience 40 mph winds or so
they say.