Friday Favorites: Winter is not over yet

 We had a pretty good week despite some pretty cold temperatures and another snowstorm. 

Friday Evan, Ian, and I met up with our friends for a hike around purgatory chasm.  It was pretty icy and snowy still but we had fun crunching through the snow and we all made it through our 45 minute hike without any mishaps.  

My nice warm hiking outfit-- lined hiking pants with turtleneck & wool sweater

Saturday after Alec's karate class Alec and I headed out roller skating with some friends of his.  I brought my skates too and skated for nearly the whole 2 hours.  The rink was packed and I was so happy to have made it through the whole open skate time without any falls or injuries.  

I spent most of my day on Sunday working on some scrapbook pages. I hadn't used my Cricut in awhile and I was thrilled to see that there is now an "offset" button which I can use to put a background on all the words/titles I cut out.  I used to have to use a different program to do that and it took me forever. I managed to get 8 page titles done in just a couple of hours. 

We had my mother in law over for dinner Sunday night.  We grilled steaks, played cards, and ate ice cream sundaes.  It was wonderful.  

I wore one of my favorite sweaters on Sunday-- I just love both the color and the style of this sweater.

Monday Evan and I headed out on a nice long walk. The temps were in the mid-50's and I didn't even need to wear a coat!  Most of the ice and snow was melted on the wide open airline trail so we walked for an hour; dodging what ice and snow there was. 

We tried walking a different airline trail on Tuesday too but barely made it 25 minutes-- it took us 8 minutes out and 17 minutes back.  The wind was blowing so bad my eyes would not stop watering and it was so cold they were starting to freeze my eyes!  Not a favorite but man did we make a ton of jokes on our way home. 

Evan's recheck with the ENT went great.  This latest MRI shows zero changes from last year's so we don't have to go back again unless something new crops up.  They've determined the pulsating in his ears is do a congenital thing that he "should" outgrow completely and since he is already noticing improvements in hearing the sound less we are all taking this as a good sign. 

 Ian had no school on Wednesday and Alec only a 1/2 cay dur to the snowstorm. I am so over the snow by this point in the year but I do love how quiet and pretty it makes everything while it's coming down.  It didn't hurt that we woke to a beautiful snow covered world with bright blue skies and sunshine.  I ended walking around our property for nearly 40 minutes after dropping Alec off at school on Thursday to take photos before all the snow melted. Scenes like these are always my favorites!!

I did my nails a new fun color! I am digging this deep blue.  And in prep for our winter storm on Wednesday I pulled out this dark blue sweater (and turtleneck) outfit to go with them. And another deep blue sweater for our (slightly) warmer weather on Thursday. 

It warmed up into the 50's by lunchtime on Thursday so the boys and I met my mom at the river trail for a nice long walk.  We walked for an hour and half and Ian even took off his sweatshirt to walk in his short sleeved shirt.  Most of the snow was melted and we had a nice time together.

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