Last weekend we took a trip over to the Ice Fest in Leavenworth, WA. We had a great time even though there wasn't much snow to play in it. The picture of her in the sled above is at Steven's Pass, and no, she is not on top of a cliff, just a snow pile in the parking lot that was on a slight incline. I made Greg leave at 6:30 am on Saturday so we could get over there early to enjoy the day. I think it worked out really well but I wasn't the one who had to drive over the pass after waking up at 5 am. We were able to go out for breakfast at the Waffle haus and then take the sled down the short hill. Hailey wasn't too sure about it at first but by the afternoon when we did it again, she kept asking to "go again mommy"
We did run into a slight obstacle on the way over though... 
Luckily no one was hurt in this incident but it did cause us to take a 30 min detour through a town called Plain. It was a pretty detour at least. I wish we could have seen this rock that was the size of a bus, but they blocked the road. This was a picture that we found on the local news webpage.
The Ice Fest is something new that Leavenworth is putting on, they have a variety of snow type activies for adults and kids, we let Hailey do the kid activities and she had a great time. Here she is doing the ice cube scramble, picking up colored ice cubes with little trinkets in them. It took her a few min to realize that she was supposed to pick them up and put them in the bag but once we started singing the "clean up" song she started picking them up.
She then did the snowball toss. There wasn't any snow to actually make the snowballs so they had wiffle balls instead. It does look like a snowball though doesn't it?
Here she is enjoying a snack of a yummy homemade peanut butter and butterscotch cookie.
Hailey and "Ma" waiting for us to make up our mind as to what to do next.
Stephanie and Madeleine enjoying a dog sled ride. This was fun to watch, the dogs were amazing and gorgeous.
That evening we went out with the entire group to a very cool bowling ally/pizza restaurant. I unfortunally didn't get any good pictures, the lighting was not working and all the pics for some reason turned out really dark. But I had to show a picture of the first time that Hailey bowled with Daddy. She loved it, she would swing her arms with the ball, wait for it to go all the way down the ally, once it knocked over some pins she would put her arms up in the air and shoot "hooray! I did it" it was pretty cute.
Hailey and I walked to Starbucks the next morning as it was just down the road from our hotel, she is enjoying her "chocat milk" Everytime we drive by or see a Starbucks, she says "mommy's coffee" she has even been known to say "are you happy now" once I have one. WOW - I don't even have words...
I was told I had to take this picture, Hailey was ready to go home as she kept pulling my hand and walking me to the car so she is not very happy with me in that I made her stand under this sign on a bench to take this picture of her at the "Munchen Haus" Next time we will get a cute one - there was also people right behind me that wouldn't move so I couldn't get far enough away. 
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