Vanilla Snow Shakes
This past Wednesday we had our first snowfall, this called for celebration! My boys love the snow and they were so excited to be getting a storm. They woke early Wednesday to peak outside… I have never seen them get dressed and ready so fast, they bundled up and headed out. Talk of the coming storm was mentioned on many Facebook pages’. My friend Tom had a comment on his wall talking about Vanilla Creams made with snow. My boys love eating snow (against everything my husband stands for, lol) and I knew they would love to use it in a recipe. We strayed a little from the recipe and…
Snowy Days
One thing I love about Colorado is the balanced seasons. I like the snow but could not live somewhere that was snowy and cold all the time. It was -11 degrees earlier this morning. Too cold for my taste. But snow is amazing, beautiful and fun to play with. The other great thing about Colorado is that sometimes you can experience different seasons all in the same week. I was looking through some recent pictures and remembered it was sunny and 65 degrees the other day.
Snow Much Fun
I have been following a super-cute blog and have been completely inspired, an old flame has been re-light I used to love to do so many creative things but I pushed all that aside at some point… After seeing what this blogger did with a little food coloring and snow – I knew my boys would love it and they completely did! My husband bought the spray bottles, he bought 2 each of 2 different kinds (we found that the full action pump sprayer is better than the one finger pump)… the first time out we mixed red and blue to make purple, red and yellow to make orange, then had…