In the winter, I stand by my motto that if there's at least one 50 (or even 48) degree day in the forecast, I can make it. So when the forecast indicates it will be 65 degrees on both the weekend days? Well that just makes me want to let out a little WOO-HOO. The weather was gorgeous in the STL this weekend.
We started off our days off by making Valentine's treats. Nate and I have been doing this for as long as I can remember. This year, I did homemade sugar cookies with homemade icing (I was feeling a little Suzy Homemaker, what can I say).
The kids enjoyed icing them and they tasted pretty good too.
They turned out to be more like shortbread cookies because I had to substitute the cream of tartar (guessing), but we liked them anyway. I'll perfect the sugar cookie another day.
After we cleaned up the cookie mess, we walked down to the park. The kids seemed to be dressed very warmly for the weather. Habit I guess. They shed the vests soon after we got there.
She loves a swing. Any swing.
Sunday served up some equally nice weather, so we headed to Forest Park to go on a little hike in the morning.
We saw a male and female Cardinal - always fun to believe this is an omen for the Cardinals to win the World Series in 2015!
Nate enjoyed pointing out all the fungus we saw and explaining to Lila what that is...she didn't get it, but she looked on like a dutiful student anyway.
After the hike, we made the short trip over to Turtle Park. I have never taken Lila there, I think Scott has, and I don't think I've been there since Nate was less than 2 years old. They loved it!
They must have slid down the big turtle 132 times. We love days like this!
We walked down to our park again after rest time and played with lots of friends who were there too. It was a great and fabulous weekend. Outside.
Happy Valentine's Day week!
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A little warm weather goes a long way! I am so glad that you all were able to enjoy it :)
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