Winter Fun

Here's some things we've been up to this winter:

Mikey's Joyschool class went on a fieldtrip to the firestation.  Mikey got to go in a real firetruck and talk to real firefighters!

Jaron and the boys made a bona fide snowman (snowballs for eyes, stick nose, smoking a candy cane pipe, and hard candies for buttons...oh, and mama's scarf).

Spencer and Mikey are taking swim lessons at our local Rec Center.  Here's Spencer with his buddy, Jordan.

You'll notice that the majority of our winter activities aren't actually outside, so we have tried to discover all the fun indoor things Iowa has to offer.  There's a great (and free) Natural History museum downtown, and a good sized children's museum.   And when we just want to stay home (which is more often for me lately with a baby in tow), we have fun swinging on our basement trapeeze, building couch-cushion forts, and making soups and homemade goodies.  Jaron and I agree that, while winter can get stinkin' cold here, it's also fun to have a change in seasons.  We like the cozy feeling of being in a warm home with family, sipping hot cocoa after playing in the snow.