Winter is Finally Here:(

We have had such a mild winter here this year that I think Tucson has gotten more snow than us so far. I think this week has changed all that though and gave us a sharp reminder that yes, we do live in Colorado and yes, it is February.  We will get into all of that in a minute.

I had a nice long 4 day weekend and on Monday, mom and I spent the afternoon at Monster Mini Golf.  It is a really cool indoor, glow in the dark mini golf place.  We had an awesome time.  We thought for sure we were going to have a 5 day weekend with a snow day on Tuesday but dang it, we didn't even get a delay.  What we did get was 6" of snow.  I was incredibly disappointed I had to go to school and spent the morning taking it out on mom.  It was a day she was happy to drop me off at school!   The snow was really pretty and we did got a picture of a lone coyote wandering around the open space behind our house.   

I was in a better mood when we got home in the afternoon so mom and I got some snow painting in and besides being bitterly cold, we had fun and made some cool designs.

The rest of the week was pretty quiet but dad and I had a fabulous weekend!  Mom was in a class to learn how to stick needles into people to make them feel better (I don't get it either) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so it was some intense, quality father/daughter time.
On Friday, we went out to dinner and headed to Target to buy another Skylander.
On Saturday, dad and I were going non-stop from sun up to sun down.  We started the morning at Snooze for breakfast and then headed to the Natural History Museum to see the mammoth exhibit.

 (We took this picture in front of the Sonoran Desert diorama for old time's sake)
After that, we headed to Dave and Buster's where I managed to win yet another gigantic snake.  I picked a red one this time.  It goes fabulous with my green one.  We finally got home and everyone collapsed into bed.

Sunday was a quiet day inside watching the blizzard blow in.  We did manage to get in a little sledding but the wind was blowing so much that it got snow in our eyes and we had to turn around.  I think we ended up getting over a foot of snow and it was nice that it was on a Sunday so we could enjoy it.  Mom also didn't mind it so much because it gave her a chance to test out her new Subaru and it was great!  We are still hoping for  snow day on Monday though....

Have a happy, safe week!  Stay warm!