First Fish of the Winter

The boys and I went ice fishing on Lake Nokomis yesterday and today. We were skunked yesterday, but today Walter came up big by nailing our first fish of the year. It was a 4 inch perch caught on the north side of the Lake. Hopefully it is the first of many that we are going to catch this winter.

I am a zipper master.

Walter has been working feverishly on the zipper frame at school. He has worked so hard on it that he now zips his own winter coat and even has Owen requesting his assistance to zip his coat. Yesterday he wanted to zip my coat for me and told me this.

Yesterday was the winter concert at Sunny Hollow. Owen sang "I've Been Working on the Railroad" and "The Snowflake Song". Walter sang "Shoefly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" and "Over the River and Through the Woods" (well, he sang about every 5th word that is). After, there was a family lunch with pizza and cookies. Owen ate six, yes six, pieces of pizza...maybe he will be eating us out of house and home as a teen after all!

Today, the boys are with Joanne & Al. They were going to see Puss In Boots at the Old Log Theatre and also to the Arboretum to see the gingerbread houses on display. Tomorrow we are going to Mother Goose's Nutcracker at the Southern with Auntie Kindi. How fun to be a great kid and take advantage of this great city!

This sounds like Grover.

We were listening to a Louis Armstrong Christmas song and Owen told me this. Funny, funny!

So again, here we are with a long break since my last post. I've been having issues with storage space on my computer, apparently I take too many photos with my sweet camera of my completely adorable boys. I have been working with the Apple store to come up with an alternative and I think I have it under control now. Only time will tell...but I think I'm going to start saving for another computer now, just in case!

There is a lot to catch up on, so I will start with the crazy fun weekend we just had! We started with an impromptu trip to the Timberwolves game on Friday and made it home just as the first flakes started to fall. The snow continued to fall and kept on falling until past 6 p.m. on Saturday. We ended up getting more than 17 inches of snow and are still digging paths out and around our house. It was such fun! We were locked in our house for the weekend, only going out to shovel, sled and play in the snow. Inside, we spent quite a bit of time in front of the fire, making cookies, playing games and watching movies. It was wonderful and the final cherry was having Monday a snow day! Tuesday after a day of school for the boys and yoga and groceries for me, I couldn't just come back home after three straight days here, so the boys and I hit up a movie to get out a little more.