Maudie's visit

Maudie, Auntie Marcie, Marz, Mawjie...she answers to any of them, but I don't care what she is called as long as she is here! It was so much fun to have my sweet sister come to visit. Oh lucky us, we got to have her for 5 awesome days. I'm not sure we stopped once she got here. We had a really fun day with the kiddos the day she got here, and then on Friday we got to go have a fun girls day together and then meet back up with Matt and the kiddos to have some yummy Italian food at Oregano's. Colby was so excited for her to come, he remembers how much fun she was the last time she had come to visit just a little bit before Brody was born, and she was not disappointing this time either. I think what he loved most was when she showed him her Ninja moves on the trampoline out back for about 45 minutes. He just laughed and laughed and she wore him out pretty good. Brody, loved being chased and cuddled by his Auntie, and when she left at the airport he cried and kept reaching for her with his hands. It took me a while to figure out what he was doing because he had everything he needed, movie, snacks, sippy, bear bear, then I realized and I cried to.

On Saturday we went up to the cabin and the timing was perfect. It had snowed a ton the week before and it stayed cold enough to leave most of the snow on the ground. It was beginning to melt Saturday, but it was just soft enough to make a perfect snow man, and to throw.

Are you twins? Happens every time. No matter where we go. We had at least one person ask everywhere we went. I never get tired of it. We always laugh, only because we get asked so much, and we are 3 years apart. Well, we both must be doing something right, although right about now after having 2 bambinos and loving my late night treats, I am wishing I had the couple of inches in height she has on me, and her long skinny legs.

We didn't have to go far to sled, the snow was deeper than I have ever seen it before behind the cabin, so we just made our own shoot and away we went. By Sunday morning we had extended it even further so we were able to sled from the hill next to the neighbors cabin, almost all the way down and into the driveway of our cabin. It was so much fun.

Brody was such a little adventurer. He was so excited to go sledding over-and-over. He loved it. He screamed "weeeee" all the way down, and said "fun" at the end. He had a really hard time walking in the deep, deep snow, but he was such a trooper.

We went into Pine to eat lunch and finally ate at the Nifty Fifty Diner. It was really good and fast, and I am glad we did it. We took the boys back to the cabin and then headed back down to the antique shops. That was so much fun. I have been waiting to take Marcie there for a few months now. I found these bins of old jewelry at this one place and had sent her a few pieces to remake. Of course she made them so beautiful and fun, so we had a blast digging through all the bins and finding total scores for nothing. I can't wait to see what she does with them. She has been doing a lot with her seed jewelry, but over the last several months now aside from her Aveda orders, she has shifted focus to recreating heirloom pieces for friends and other people who have been referred to her, and every piece has been stunning.

The pictures didn't quite do the sledding justice so here is our sledding videos. They are super short.

Monday before she left, we walked to Power Ranch and fed the ducks. Oh, poor ducks, I wasn't willing to give them my bread because it wasn't old enough, so they got left over pancakes. FYI...they don't really like pancakes....:) but some of them ate it and the fish did acquire a taste for them.

The best thing about the visit, was honestly just having her here. We could have done nothing but the day to day and sat around my house and I would have loved it just as much. It was so awesome to just be able to stay up late chatting, do our toes together, and have her around. I love you Maudie!! Miss you.