Park Days

In spite of all the snow we did end up getting, we also had some beautiful days in there!  One of those days (actually the day before Valentine's Day), we met some friends at an incredibly fun park!  We enjoyed our time with Miss Pam and Lilly.

Snow Days

At the beginning of January, we all mentioned how much snow we had NOT gotten this year.  Well... we got all that snow we talked about NOT getting.  In spite of it all, we did several fun snow things this year:

Snow Angels

Sledding

And, naturally, snow ice cream

Buttons

In the evenings, Elianna and I read various books.  We recently read a book (thank you, Grammy!) entitled "In Grandma's Attic".  It tells the story of a young girl who asks her grandma to tell her stories from when she was growing up.  Several of the stories involved looking through a button basket and hearing a story based on those buttons.  Elianna enjoyed the button stories the best and was continually asking if the next chapter involved grandma's buttons.

One night I decided to get out my button jar from Grandmother's house.  Elianna thought it was the neatest thing to do.  She sorted and re-sorted and combed through them.  She found 3 buttons she like the very best and asked me to put them on her sweater.  

I wish Grandmother had been there to tell us some of her stories that go with those buttons.