Last time it snowed (about 2-3 weeks ago), we got like 2 feet (60 cm) of snow. The snow came predicted on Thursday evening and the news stations said, we will get a LOT of snow....so schools got closed on Friday, Papa worked from home and it still snowed all day long on Friday.

It was such a blizzard that even the biggest mall in Colorado, Park Meadows, closed its doors at 5 pm (instead of 10 pm) to ensure that everybody makes it home safely.

IKEA closed at 5, libraries did not even open that day...it was CRAZY!

our trashcans at the side of the yard coverd in snow...the thing on the right leaning against the Aspen tree is a wheelbarrow (Schubkarre)

Papa shoveling the street free, so that his car does not get stuck from getting out of the garage into the street...we had that once, don't need to have this again...

Of course, on Saturday the sun came out, we had the most beautiful weather and the kids wanted to go sledding. I took my good camera with me and got some nice shots of Jonah.

Olivia was not feeling so well (at this time our 3 week long sickness started) and we were only in the snow for about 40 minutes before heading back home.

But Jonah surely enjoyed the time he had with his sled!

I already shoveled once a path for the dogs in the backyard earlier that day but needed to do it again just in a few couples of hours. So that you have a better idea of how much snow we got, a short video from Tobi and Popcorn playing in the snow...

Olivia reading

In her half year report card it states that Olivia reads better than her class average! Here a proof of her very good reading!!

After all the Christmas decoration taken down I - of course - re-arranged furniture once again.

Chris bought me a nice art picture in a very nice home decoration store. We still need to hang it up on the wall over the fire place, for now it just sits on the mantle.

I grabbed the tables from the entry room and exchanged them with our family room. I actually like the outcome, everything seems to be a little more put-together now. Oh, the lanterns are from this home deco store, too.

and this is now how the living room looks like. The couch got moved from the window to the wall in exchange for the ottoman that sat between the shelves. Re-arranging furniture keeps me away from buying new ones, lol!

Roller skating

Olivia got invited to a birthday party of her two classmates, Faith and Reagan. The party was in Skatecity in Aurora and Olivia loved roller skating this time!

We tried it once last year and Olivia fell down on her bum the first time she stepped onto the ring because she did not know that it was THAT slippery. From that moment on she cried and was frustrated so we needed to go home within the first 20 min after spending like $30 entrance fee.

But not this time! Every time she fell she just got up again and tried it again! For the entire 2 hours we where there I think she spend 1 h 20 min on the ring - around and around and around. This is what I call 'determination'!