Here is what it looks like when your 3 1/2 year old helps you shovel the driveway.  He sure is a hard worker!  After all that effort he needed an easy (?) way to eat some fresh snow.  

Emma and her friend crack me up.  Every time she comes over they have a list of things they want to do – pretty much the same things every time.  Today was fairly typical – here is what was on their agenda: *Mail (making art and sending it to each other in the mailbox I…

Yep, it was as fun – and as crazy – as it looks.  Happy birthday Zach!  (It appears, as Zach's all-or-nothing personality goes, that this will be the year of Lego Ninjago.  Apparently, Star Wars is so last year.  :)

Apparently not Zach.  The frigid (in the low twenties) temperatures and the snow on the "field" didn't stop him from a little time with the pitchback – he'd just shovel a path to wherever he needed to go.  

snow!  preschool frog (at our house this week) had to get all his gear on.  yay!

Meg pulls herself up Carter creates sea art and an awesome octopus at preschool; as well as a very big, very cool (and unfortunately very fragile, this smile didn't last long) lego airplane. Steph breaks out the flip flops in early January, since Minnesota is seeing record temps in the 50's! And Zach commences giving…

In January.  In Minnesota.   it.  was.  heaven. (yeah, leave your coat unzipped while you search for pirate treasure at Silver Lake Park kind of heaven!)

This picture is a couple of years old but it is one of my favorites.  We are lucky.  Life is good.

We took a trip to the ice rink during the break, and Carter had his first experience with skates! He did a great job, and gave Nate and I quite a workout! He felt super cool in Zach's hockey helmet…  

We finally had some snow – and some wind – and the kids (home for winter break) picked that day to ride their bikes in the cul dec sac. It was short lived, but they thought it was quite the adventure. Here is Zach helping out Carter, who was stuck on the ice.