Christmas, New Year’s, Birthdays, and Valentine’s day all seemed to blur together this year. We had an enjoyable and relatively low key holiday season spending time at home and with family. Much to my dismay, we’ve had plenty of cold but no snow to go with it. Each time it snowed, it would melt right away so our snow activities have been much more limited than last year. Thankfully, we were able to go sledding once.
After the holidays were over we celebrated Jacob’s fourth birthday, where Elise delighted the boys with her Olaf cake.
Soon after, it was time to make our yearly trek up to Deep Portage (Hackensack, MN) for a fun weekend getaway over Valentine’s Day. Despite the cold (a high of -4° with lots of wind), we were able to get outside a few times. Of course, there were fun things to do indoors as well:
It’s now the end of February, and we’re *hopefully* wrapping up a few weeks of sickness that seems to be affecting almost everyone we know. We’ll see whether or not spring is going to arrive soon, or if we should keep the shovels prepped into May.
