C-C-C-OLD Weather!

As I write this it is 26 degrees out and feels warmer than it has for at least a week. We were down in the single digits for days on end, and thankfully, got some snow to show for it as well=) So the kids bundled up this week and went outside....it didn't last too long as cheeks soon got red and noses began to run and toes started to go numb! Just the same we did have fun for the little bit of time we ventured out, most of the time!
As usual my kids were quite the fashion statements in their layers of hand me downs....Jesse is wearing Alana's old boots, Alana is wearing Logan's, Logan is wearing Zach's (!), Zach is wearing his dad's, Monica is wearing mine. Yay! Another year of not having to buy everybody boots=)

Posing for pictures wasn't the only thing that went on outside....Since installing our wood stove (given to us by the Bergs and recently installed in our basement) there is a new chore around our house that involves chopping, stacking, and hauling wood.Then of course there's throwing snowballs=)And hauling your younger siblings around in a sled....except, for some reason, it was really heavy to pull and while Monica started off strong....
she didn't make it that far!Logan was the next to make an attempt -but he didn't make it very far either=)

So we called in the big guns and Alana and Jesse got one turn around the yard courtesy of Daddy=)
It was lots of fun!

The kids weren't the only ones to have fun - Boomer is made for the snow and loves to be out in it, especially if the kids are out there with him.

We love our new puppy!

So, by tomorrow I think we will venture up above freezing and probably in another day or two the snow will melt and it will be brown and muddy for a week=) Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!