Come With Me To An Ice Castle

I am going to take you to one of the

few ice castles in the United States

and since you are going to be royalty

for a day I made you some royal slippers 

and a crown to celebrate.

There are only three ice castles in

the United States and we have one right

here in Utah just up the canyon in Midway.

The ice castles are made by hand and contain

over 20,000,000 pounds of ice.

We went on a warm sunny day

with my favorite royalty,

Hannah, Miss Utah County

and Kylie, Little Miss Utah County.

They dressed in their icy blue

and capes and naturally

they were mistaken for Elsa

our favorite queen from Frozen,

Disney's new movie.

Who happened to just come along

with us for the photo shoot

and we also found

our favorite snowman, Olaf there!

Actually, we brought that Olaf with

 us for baby sister to hold but we

did find this huge Olaf there.

It was a beautiful sunny day there

and the majesty of the ice is

just unimaginable.

There are arches and tunnels

and mazes to explore.

You don't want to wear your princess 

slippers as you are walking

through quite a bit of snow but

I just had to make some

royal cookies to celebrate our adventure.

For complete instructions on

making cookies like these

click here.

How appropriate as they use

ROYAL ICING!

I made these and brought them over

to Hannah as she had come down

with a cold.

These ice figures remind you of 

the top of a castle.

It was definitely a fun event to go

to, a fabulous place to take

photos, and it was really fun to 

be there with ROYALTY!

Hannah and her mother had

given me both of these

cookie cutters so it was

fun to give a little something back.

I will be posting with

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Miss Utah County and Her Little Miss

I am so thrilled to announce that my dear, dear friend

Hannah Harkness,

a piano performance major at BYU

won the title of

Miss Utah County this

past Saturday

and my oldest granddaughter

Kylie was her Little Miss.

Hannah was stunning in her gold gown that was

absolutely perfect on her.

She played Flight of the Bumblebee

which she told us is a 90 second

performance with 1, 197 notes

performed during the minute and a half.

Here she is flanked by her attendants.

Kylie had told me one day while we were 

driving down the road that she only had two

dreams in life, one Hannah had already made

come true by asking her to be her Little Miss

and the other was to go to Paris!

After Hannah's title was announced 

Kylie yelled out, "I did it!"  We all had

a big laugh at that.

What a character!!!

Congratulations to Hannah

There isn't a sweeter girl that could have

been awarded the crown, nor a more

talented one that I know.