100's Day Can Drive

100's day is one of my favorite things that we celebrate in Kindergarten! Besides dressing up like we are 100 years old (hysterical!), we also hold a can drive to try and collect 100 cans for the 100 days!

We ended up collecting over 250 cans and when I delivered it to the Food Bank of the Rockies, it weighed in at 327 pounds!

I love this project because it is a simple, inexpensive project for the families and a fun activity for the kids to watch the can pile grow larger and larger each day!

Love my job,

Laura



Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing you a day filled with the ones you love...

{besties}

{family}

{the hubster}

I love love,

Laura

P.S. Interested in the history of Valentine's Day? Click here...

Strawberry Hot Springs

Steamboat Springs is easily one of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite, place in Colorado.

About twenty minutes outside of Steamboat is an amazing little wonderland, Strawberry Hot Springs.

We have been there in the summer and winter and both times the scenery was breathtaking, the atmosphere serene and the water was so relaxing!

I love how the snow and steam from the hot springs makes the trees look!

Check it out!

Everything is more fun when your best friend comes too,

Laura

Valentine's for Kiddos

Loving these ideas for Valentine's to give to my students...

I "Wheelie" Like You



Stache and Lips

I Dig You

You Make My Heart Glow

This time of year is so fun!

I think I will go with the glowsticks,

Laura

Ice Castles

We spend most of our weekends in the mountains- snow-shoeing, skiing and visiting ice castles, of course.

Silverthorne, Colorado has made an incomparable display of ice that I highly recommend checking out! The entire castle area is made completely of ice with no support underneath. There is an icicle "farm" there, as well, where the icicles are "grown" on nets and then taken into the castle at night to be joined to the existing structures.

We talked with one of the men after our visit that goes in at night to climb the structures and attach icicles vertically and then horizontally the next night. When we were there, the castles were about 30 feet tall and they will be open until March, when they hope they will be 50 feet tall!

At night, the ice is lit up and it really is a humbling and beautiful sight! The $10 admission price is a little steep for a short visit but a small price to pay for a unique experience!

On a side note, drinks are not allowed in the ice castle so, hypothetically, if you and your friends went out of the way to go to Starbucks and buy grande warm drinks to slowly sip while you perused the ice castles and then after paying your admission cost they told you that you couldn't take drinks in...you'd have to chug them and burn your tongue. Hypothetical, of course.

Check it out!

Still bitter about chugging my hot chocolate,
Laura