Winter Fun!

 We had a very warm November/December and first part of January and then it got super cold and snowy for few weeks mid January.  It was subzero and freezing and we broke like a 100 year record for the most snow fall in one week.  During that time we had some friends who had had to leave town for a family tragedy and were going to be coming home to a driveway full of feet and feet of snow so we bundled everyone up as warm as possible on one of the coldest sundays of the year and went and shoveled out their driveway for them with a couple of other famillies.  It was seriously freezing cold but we all toughed it out and finished the job!  It was good to see the kids working hard to help others!  

Jon also managed some fun for our kids during some of the "less cold" days with tons of snow.  He snowplowed a bunch of snow around our playset tower and the kids dug themselves a pretty fun snow fort!  We also managed some sledding down our back deck stairs when it was super snowy 😂

I had wanted to take our kids snow tubing for the first time for my birthday weekend but I was worried it was going to be way too cold.  As it got closer to my birthday the forecast showed it was actually going to be too warm!  My birthday forecast was 50 degrees and rainy so we planned my birthday tubing adventure for the weekend before my birthday.  We went night tubing and apart from it being a long drive late at night, we all had a great time!  The weather was not too cold or warm and the runs were fast and fun!  It was a great family activity to do together and I look forward to doing it again next year!