Snowy beach adventures!

Went to the cottage for the last couple of days of March ... Went for a few walks on the beach with snowshoes! In one of the pictures, you can see someone else's footprint that is sunk way down in the snow... We had that experience last year which is why we knew to bring snowshoes this year!! On the second day it was really warm on the beach with no wind!

Spring Break!

It is the end of March and there is still tonnes of snow!!! So... what should we do?  Stay inside and mope?  Or ....

GO OUTSIDE!!!

Events and fun!

Lots of events and fun lately!

Chinese New Year celebration, Festival du Voyageur, fun outside events like skiing... I love winter!

Also there is a pic of the big boy's school project that he made... Awesome!

Oh... And the little one's archery skills at a bday party! :-)

Outside!

Off we went outside last weekend on a cold day... but we loved it!  I love fresh, cold air!  I mean, I love summer too... but I certainly love the change of seasons, and love that these seasons are quite thoroughly different from each other!  So, that being said, even though summer is my magical fun time, I love what winter offers!  This was a beautiful day to see winter's offerings!

We went to Fort Whyte for a special day to try different outdoor activities!  Our kids don't have X-Country skis so we thought it would be great for them to try them at this event to see what they think first!  They loved it!

Before we skied, we actually went tobogganing!  I went with the big boy... but was really (secretly) terrified!  I kept it to myself until after!  Yeesh that looked steep!  Fun though!

Then... after skiing we decided to go snowshoeing... but the little one didn't want to (and his Bop had already gone) so the two of them had a special time looking around the centre, at fish and different displays!  He's still talking about it!  They had a little hot chocolate treat by the fire first!  Cute!

So off we went snowshoeing!  The guide took us off the trail a bit so we could try running in an open area!  It was fun!

Relaxing with daddy after!  These boys slept well that night!