Winter Fun

Winter is not my favorite season! Especially the last couple days when it has been WAY cold! Yesterday morning it was -33 degrees. Yes.....that's BELOW zero. Brrrrr! Right now the temperature has risen to a whole -8. Luckily we are supposed to be up to the mid 30's (above zero!) by the weekend.

One good thing about winter is that there are lots of things to do outside that the kids love! One of their favorite things is to have Dave hook all the sleds up behind the 3 wheeler and get pulled around the yard. The beg to be able to do this! Something new to our farm this winter is an ice skating rink. Dave has worked hard to get the ice as smooth and even as possible. So we are in the process of teaching the kids how to ice skate. This has been quite funny. Out of all of them, Chris seems to be doing the best. Even Debbie gave it a try with the double bladed skates we have. Jacob and Benji love to play hockey. Jacob has had some pretty impressive wipe-outs. Benji has yet to try skating with a pair of skates with only one blade, but he's wanting to try it later today. Clara is doing really good also, but gets really tired of falling. They think that Dave and I are the coolest things ever because we can skate.....without falling. They were really impressed when I showed them that I could even skate backwards. It's fun to be cool every once in a while.