Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Mom's Visit

We are having such a great time with my mom here. The kids are loving having someone to play with all day long. Saga sleeps with her every night out in the cabin. She even asks if it time to go to bed, which is VERY unusual for her. Today we went swimming and yesterday we went and had lunch at Axel's Grandma's house. Tomorrow we are going into town for a little shopping. The snow is falling and everything is exactly like it's suppose to be around Christmas. Calm and cozy with a fire going. I'm lucky to have such a wonderful helpful mother that enjoys my family and me. We sure love having her here.
Took a little trip on the snowmobile.
Saga took a little trip behind the dogs on the sled, FUN!

Our tree after grandma had her way with it.  When she showed up it had about 8 ornaments on it and some lights, now it's lovely.
Sixten waiting his turn for the snowmobile.  He loves to ride on it.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Winter Wonderland

It's interesting how the weather is so very important to our lives. While we lived in Bellingham Axel would often comment on the lack of seasons and how he missed the intensity of winter/summer. I never understood what he meant, it gets cold in Bellingham and hot in the summer. It makes sense now. Life is driven but the weather, it's so important to us. Makes us connected to nature and life. I love it! The snow has finally fallen and not lightly. We get to play and everything is so much lighter outside. BEAUTIFUL!
My first attempt at baking cinnamon rolls, tasted pretty good!
The kids playing outside and building a snowman.
We were going to do this experiment I saw on someone else's blog.  Milk, food coloring, and soap.  The colors were supposed dance around.


It all went so fast, looked pretty for a few seconds then it was just light blue.  Nobody was very impressed.