Faux Snow

Winter is officially here! The temperatures have started to dip, days are still somewhat warm but mornings and nights are very cold. On a cold winter night my husband and I decided to get one last visit from our seasons passes to Knottts Berry Farm. We went with the intent of dinning, walking and watching the shows. I must say the shows have really stepped up their game. We saw a total of three shows and I honestly liked all three. They were all very charming and truly entertaining. Definitely worth a visit.  I think my favorite show was the Ice skating.  Towards the ended of the night we headed to toward the front of the park and enjoyed a little faux snow. I always feel like there is so much more to a theme park than roller coasters. 

Big Bear Diary

My sister in law normally works weekends but this this past weekend she finally had the weekend off. She wanted to take advantage of her weekend and treat her kids to something fun and special. She invited my husband and I to tag along. Her top pick was a snow day! We live in Southern California and we are fortunate to have mountains two hours away. But because it's Southern California it was warm and the only snow to play with was man made. We didn't know this until we arrived but we didn't let this stop us.

 



 

 

We drove around and found a place where we were able to go snow tubing. It was a little busy but we made our way through the crowd and went into the park. Now, I've said this before and I'm not ashamed to say it again, "I'm a big chicken!"  As soon as we saw the slope my sister in law asked if I was really going to do the tubing? I took a good look and said "yes, it's not that high." She asked me because she is also a little bit of a chicken and figured if I backed out she can back out too. We collected our tubes and made our way up the slope.

 

 

 

This photo was taken by my husband.

 

 

Once on top there was even more people so I didn't really get a good look down until I was about to slide down. It was finally my turn and my husband decided to slide down with me. We each had our own donut but he held on to mine and we went down together. OH MY GOD! It was a lot scarier than I thought and as we were going down those were the exact same words I screamed out loud!  It was so scary but so much fun! We laughed so much but lets just say I stayed in the baby slope for the rest of the day.

 

 

After spending most of the day snow tubing, slipping, falling, and laughing we decided to call it a day and headed to the lake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While at the lake we entertained ourselves taking pictures, throwing rocks into the lake and taking in the beautiful sights.   Once we were all tired we decided to head home and grab some pizza.  Our drive home did not disappoint, the sunset was beautiful.

 

 

 

It was so much fun to get out of the routine for a day and laugh so hard all day. I'm still laughing at some of the falls we had.

 

Winter Blooms

 

 

 

When I think of winter I think of dry bare trees, making the city look old and dirty. But if you look closely you'd be surprised to find beautiful bright flowers that spruce up the city. To be honest when I was younger I would never take time to notice these beautiful trees or smell the roses. So one day I finally decided to take notice.

 

Everyday I go to work I pass a factory that has white trees lining their parking lot and in one corner a big orange tree. So one warm Saturday I finally decided to stop and take a closer look. I fell in love with the colors, flowers and size of these trees.  Now all I need to know, what are the names of these beautiful trees?


A Hot Winter's Day

 

 

 

 

On February 7, 2016, it was 88 degrees.