Fur Rondevouz

Fur Rondy Snow Sculptures

Kyla with the winning snow sculpture

A big bull moose we saw near the dog sled race

Fur Rondy Dog Sled Races

Grandma and Kyla watching the dogs

Kermit dog mushing

More Dog Mushers

Our out of town visitors Linda and Patty watching the races with us

Nearing the finish

The weather was really cold this year during Fur Rondy so we did not get out and do as much as we did last year. We ended up skipping the Parade and Carnival and only went to the final day of the dog sled races and to see the snow sculptures downtown.

Alyeska Ski Weekend

Taking a ski break in the lodge

Mommy and Kyla on the bunny hill

Kyla's first ski day with just Mommy

Kyla did a great job skiing

Having a great time at Alyeska

The prettiest girl on the hill

Having lots of fun

Mommy and Kyla on the Magic Carpet

Kyla's first time on the chairlift!

Worn out from a long day of skiing

We spent the night playing puzzles and games in the hotel room

We had a great weekend at the Alyeska Hotel! Jon, Kyla and I had a weekend full of skiing and eating out at good restaurants. Kyla did really well skiing and it was the first time that she has skiied with me. Usually she skis with Jon and he skis down backwards in front of her. I do not ski backwards so I was skiing next to her and she was doing great. Our first day skiing the weather was really nice so we were able to do several runs, but the second day was really cold and we spent more time in the lodge taking ski breaks. On day 2 of skiing Jon decided he wanted to take Kyla on the chairlift! They ended up skiing two runs on the lift. She liked going on the lift, but the runs were much longer and had much steeper spots on them so she had to ski down between Daddys legs for part of it.

Kyla also got to visit with her friend Eli at Alyeska and meet his new little sister Ali. She has not seen him in several months and after we left she said "where is my other frind Eli?", I told her that this was her only friend named Eli. She was still convinced that this was not the same Eli and said "He must be on the mountain skiing". Her friend Eli is not even 3 yet and was riding the tram and to the top of the mountain and skiing down the entire mountain mostly by himself. Kyla will no longer be able to ski with him until she gets a lot more practice.

Games, Games and More Games

Playing Dora Memory

A Match!!!

Hi-Ho Cherry-O


So Happy!!!!

Yeah, Good Spin!

Soooooo Cute!!!

So scared that she will be the one to spill the beans while playing Don't Spill the Beans

Mommy spilled the beans!

So Excited to get the Ice Cream Card!

Candyland

Chutes and Ladders

Hullaballoo

Playing hullaballoo with Daddy

Bingo!!!

Concentrating hard on Bingo

Kyla Won!

Playing Uno Moo

So Fun!

Sequence for kids

Kyla loves her games!

Kyla loves to play games so much, every night is now family game night! Kyla first started playing Candyland, Chutes and Ladders and Hi-Ho Cherry-O. She actually gets how to play them and they are all really good games for practicing her numbers and colors. She gets so excited to play all of them. In Candyland she is thrilled everytime that she gets one of the cards with the pictures to go to the candy cane, ice cream, lollypop... She does not care if it means she has to go backwards. She just stars screaming and jumping with excitement. In Chutes and Ladders it is the same thing with going up the ladders and down the chutes, she thinks it is so much fun to send her princess down the slide.

After getting a bit tired of always playing the same three games I went and bought her several new games, and she loves them all and now we just play games for even longer since if we play one game she has to play them all! She loves playing Hullabaloo, Sequence for kids, Uno Moo, Bingo and Don't Spill the Beans. She really picks up how to play them really quickly and they are all pretty educational. I loved playing games as a kid and still so it has been a lot of fun playing all of these games with Kyla. I now keep thinking of other games that I really liked as a kid and am going to need to by her more and more games.

Kyla's Art Projects

Hand Prints at Art Class

Messy hands and feet!

Kyla really likes art class

Pretty Painting

Hard at Work!

Coloring with chalk at art class with her friend

Proud of her art work displayed on the fridge

Kyla's collage

Another collage from art class

Making an Alaska collage at home the next day

So Pretty!

Kyla loves to play with glue

Kyla is really enjoying art class now. The last two weeks we have colored with chalk, painted with hands and feet and made collages. We have just signed her up for the next art session that will have many more new fun art projects.