Winter Schenanagans

This week has seen a serious amount of snow melt around here. As of this morning, I can finally see over the snowbank at the end of my driveway in my tiny little car! Woohoo! There has been a lot of hate circulating towards the extreme cold and snow we've had the last few months. When I moved here, I chose winter so I really do my best not to complain about it. I really do. And I think of all years, I've had to take that to heart the most this year. We found lots of ways to enjoy the snow. But, I will say the end of winter is a mixed bag of feelings for me. I am very much looking forward to the arrival of spring, warmer temps, more sun, and reclaiming our world from the snow. However, I'm also a little sad because I feel like we've just really gotten to the meat of our ski season only to see it abruptly coming to an end.

To celebrate the end of winter, I wanted to share with you some of the beauty\fun of it that we experienced the last couple of weekends. Mostly they were glorious weekends because, although everything was still covered in lots and lots of snow, we were finally given a break from freezing temps which made it enjoyable to go out in. You'd be amazed at what 40 feels like after enduring the temperatures we've had. It was like summer!

Beautiful Cardinal Against the White Snowy Background

Cade In Snowshoes

Dylan and His Snowshoes

My boys have become quite adept at getting around in their snowshoes. Probably because they've had LOTS of practice because that has been the only way to access our backyard. I haven't been out to the backyard since last Sunday, and there's been lots of melting since, but I certainly found it much easier then to get around in my snowshoes....and we haven't had snow in weeks!

Of course, we've been enjoying the winter fun in NH as well.

Snow On Our Mountain View

Me and Dylan

And Mike's Gloved Hand Made the Pic Too

Dylan Graduated to Runs Accessed By a Lift
He's really improved a ton this year.

Even though we certainly have had lots of snow, we really haven't had many snowman making opportunities. For one, most of the snow we got from the storms was really light and fluffy. It made for easier shoveling, but it didn't stick together well for snowmen or snowballs. Plus, getting dumped on repeatedly created a lot of work for the grownups to try and prevent home damage and do a lot of snow removal (even with the plow guy doing the bulk of it). Last weekend, we took our stale, sticky snow and made ourselves some snowmen!

Cade wanted the snowman to have feet, hence the single monster foot on this one.

I dug a pit for the boys. See how deep the snow still is after weeks of settling and melting!

This snowman was bait to capture the Joker in the pit (obviously).
Complete with spooky eyes and horns.

Dylan had a thriving frozen pizza business going.

The kids have been great. We have made sure they got outside to play in any way possible as often as possible. Their good spirits and active imaginations have made for lots of fun snow play. They may be sad to see it go too...especially when our yard turns into a mud pit for (potentially) months. Should be an interesting spring!