Christmas Fun at the Pool

This last weekend we took a last minute trip up to the Dells. We got a really good rate on a condo, took up food for dinner and breakfast and spent Friday and Saturday swimming away. Here are some pictures.

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Finally Snow

It's been unseasonably warm in Wisconsin. In fact, November was one of those record warm Novembers. We did have a little snow just before Thanksgiving, but it was gone awful fast. The kids put out a bowl to catch snow for snow cream, but we didn't get enough. Well last week we got our first real snow fall... okay a snow fall enough for snow cream and for Ben to get paid to shovel our walk. However, on Monday Ben was complaining about how little snow there was 'cause he wanted to play in it.
Fast forward to today. More snow when we woke up. Snow cream again. But it's supposed to really wail on us this afternoon and all day tomorrow. The kids can't wait for the snow plow to plow the dead end street. It usually packs it up into a huge hill and the kids have a snow fort in it all winter long. Until then they've been sledding down our sloped lawn.
Rachel bundled up Moroni and took him out to play. He really likes and tolerates being out in the cold. Most two year olds I have will go out for about 5 minutes and then want back in.
I was helping Sam into snow pants and snowboots and a coat. Then I steered him back to the garage to go get some gloves. He said, "Do I really need all this stuff?" Yeah, Sam, ya do!