Thursday, February 21, 2013

Warm Winter Weather

This winter has been amazingly mild here in Colorado. Last weekend we once again saw 50 and 60 degree days!  Sorry for all the sideways pictures, Blogger isn't cooperating today.  Honestly, no matter if pictures are taken with the camera or my phone, they orient themselves as they please when I upload them to this site with no option of rotating them-so maddening!!

 




'Looking for friends' on a walk

Enjoying his Xmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa Koski





Clearly we need to invest in some dress-up clothes since it seems to be her favorite activity lately!

Ellis loves to carry around to broom!

Our budding painter

I guess we don'y have to worry about stocking up on quarters for horsie rides!


A trip to the library last Friday with Ellie.



Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Mountains

MLK weekend we were lucky to have Claire and Jason come visit.  Even luckier was to have a friend's 3 bedroom condo to stay at in Breckenridge! 

First order of business-sledding!  And with quite a view!






Staredown...

Enjoying the view




The next day, Claire and Jason watched Ellis while the rest of us did a couple of ski runs.  Nora did great, it was very fun for me to be able to go along!

A video of Nora skiing:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmKZH-8yBro





A weekend in the mountains wouldn't be complete without some R&R at the condo!

Sure was fun playing Headbandz!



Ellis.  He's a mischievous fellow-loves to pull everything out of the pantry, play with the wine bottles in the buffet, and most of all play in the bathroom.  If the toilet seat is open, he'll dig right in...(I didn't take the time to grab the camera and document it!)


Loves to wave!


Loving the play kitchen
Nora.  She wants to read more than anything and was sounding out two letter words when I picked her up from school the other day.  She also likes to practice writing letters and typing them on the computer, real or not.



When she's not being studious, she's being a princess.  She loved the dress up clothes at Ellie's birthday party!  She also likes to put on her 'ballerina' dress and have dance parties in the basement.  The best is when she wants Jeff to ballerina dance with her!


No blog update would be complete without a photo with the wrong orientation...
So there you have it-a week (or three) in the life of the Koski's.   Add in a weekend in Green Bay for Shannon and Ellis and a weekend in Minneapolis for Jeff, and that's what we've been up to the past month!  I know, we never have anything going on...

Monday, February 4, 2013

Then and Now

Some things never change.

Ellis, last night

Nora, 13 months
p.s.  I am working on a proper update, wading through pictures from Breckenridge from a few weeks ago.  I got sidetracked though, seeing that picture of Ellis just reminded me of the one of Nora :)