Decided to have a little family adventure this morning - there was a dusting of snow in Reno, so we decided to drive down to Carson City, visit the grandparents and deliver Valentine's cookies, then find some place to sled. Sofia, of course, had to wear a pretty dress until the last possible moment. This is a dress that Grandma Gail made for her. She totally loves the dress, but was not so happy about the matching hair ribbon this morning...
We visited with Mich's grandparent, and Uncle Bob, who was in town. Here's julien pulling a face while at their place:
We then continued onto visit "regular Nanny" (as opposed to Great-Nanny) and "Grandpa Toast" (long story). Mich's mom was using her new oven to bake a pie, which was smelling awesome. Might have to do that myself this afternoon. Julien and Grandpa got to dissect the
owl puke that they got for Christmas. Interesting. Not super exciting, but - a science moment, anyway...
Getting the kids ready for sleddong, then. Sofia was loath to take off her pretty dress and put on snow stuff. We eventually talked her into it, but not without some tears:
We decided to head all the way out to
Markleeville - some good snow there, but we weren't able to find a very good hill. The sledding experience kind of degenerated into a big family snowball fight, which was pretty fun anyway. Sofia had a good time once she got out there:
We had lunch at the grocery store/deli in
Woodfords, and came home. Nice morning.
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