we had an awesome time. the whole trip was fabulous & much too short. there are 50 pictures in this post... that's WAY widdled down. i apologize. but really, i don't because it was that amazing & worthy.
finn lasted quite a while before we brought out the touch so he could watch a movie. we had planned to stop at the out of africa wildlife park on the way up but it was raining & pretty nasty & we were the only cars in the parking lot. bryan went in to see if they were even open & they were nice enough to replace our groupon (which was expiring that day) with 2 free tickets! no expiration date, so we have ourselves a fun day trip in the near future.
it was definitely chilly & a lil bit snowy. they forcasted 8-12 inches, starting that evening.
we get to the hotel & the first thing bryan does is turn on the t.v. sometimes we do miss it.
& then it was time to put on our pajama's & head to the train station. this is finn watching the train pull up... love this. can't you feel his anticipation!
yeah!
come on dad... let's go!
i love this one. with my whole heart.
:)
oh yeah, we're on the polo spress. (that's how he says it. out of context i can't understand that at all. he said it for days afterwards & for some reason it never dawned on me what he was saying. i was so desperate to figure it out i called jenn, my friend who watched him at her daycare... she knew immediately what he was saying!)
maya all bundled up.
it started getting a little toastier so we could get down to our jammies. my mom bought this sweet outfit for maya.
cookies!!!!!!! (what you thought we were excited about santa?! nah. those cookies were awesome.)
wait, is he coming?!
yep it's him! i was suprised he was so willing to hug the weird dude in red, but he was. not shy at all.
totally into his bell. still is.
maya wasn't so sure about him. she's all "what in the hell do you think you're doing. get me away from this guy."
:)
leaving the north pole looking for wolves.
we posed real quick with santa. the "professional" picture was adorable but they wanted something like $45 for the small one. i got one frame fired off before she yelled at me. we bought a hand painted train ornament instead.
shu nelly, the snow started up once we got off the train.
the car with a light dusting!
our drive to the hotel which luckily was only like 10 minutes.
the next morning we woke up to lots & lots of snow! the hotel was great about plowing the parking lot but the awesome little hill behind us was perfect for finn to romp around in the white stuff for the first time! our friends sharon & joe gave us their daughters snow shoes & snow bib so finn was set!
we bundled ms maya up & put her in her carseat at the edge of the hill. she fell asleep within a few minutes.
trying to catch snow flakes.
daddy bulldozing a place to slide down. such a good daddy.
occasionally he'd get grumpy if he fell down...
or if he got it on his hands.
:) so beautiful.
they did this probably 10 times.
& then we taught him how to make snowballs.
bryan got him good!
supposedly this was a heated pool. i saw the steam rising but have no idea where the heat was... because it was COLLLLLLD. so cold bryan wussed out & didn't get in.
cute lil teeth chattering.
our drive home was beautiful. the gray, cold, lovely winter beauty. perhaps only a phoenician could love this sort of weather.
ah happy pola esspressin!
