Snow Fun

We just concluded a great weekend with Will, Sandy and Anders. All of this wonderful snow created lots of opportunities for play. Anders and I started out with a short snowshoe trip. I like the tiny snowshoes his dad made for him.

When we walked by the garage, Anders asked what the building was for. I told him we stored our boat there during the winter, so he wanted to see it. Of course, this included his wanting to try out the driver's seat and steering wheel. He said his boat at his lake is smaller (a canoe).

We made a snow house by tunneling into one of the larger piles of snow that resulted from various plowing and shoveling activities.

He liked climbing on top too.

Next, we smoothed an area for some sliding. Grandma had found a deeply discounted saucer sled when we were in snowless Minneapolis. Up here, there was ample opportunity to use it.

The stairs made getting back to the top quite easy.

Naturally, some falling off the sled is necessary at the bottom of the run.

Kelso and Tighe played and played and played some more. In the evenings, they were generally pretty wiped out.

Sandy, Kathie and I worked on a couple of picture puzzles.

Anders took a bath and then tried out grandma's sweatshirt as a bath robe.

On Sunday, we went for a long outing on the lake.

Anders wasn't sure whether he wanted to ride in the toboggan, ski, or snowshoe. He did some of each.

Kelso even got to ride part of the way. We probably did about 3.5 miles on the lake, and that little guy surely got a little worn out trying to walk through the deeper snow.

Anders is good at lifting his snowshoes.

Just a boy and his dogs out snowshoeing across the lake.

Kathie got this shot of us approaching the cabin from far across the lake.

Eventually, Anders was too tired to keep going on his own.

His grandpa also slowed and brought up the rear.

When we finally made it back, Anders was either asleep or faking it in hopes that his dad would carry him up to the warm cabin and some hot cocoa. Of course, his dad welcomed the opportunity to do just that.