More snow blocks

Another beautiful day today, blue sky, warm sun. The snowpack, at least on the southern slopes is compacting a bit. We finally got a bit of a roof built today. Odin was very excited.

Heart day

Walking in the store the other day I asked Odin if he wanted to buy valentines to exchange with school mates or make some. He said with no hesitation "lets make some". That was easy. Thanks to our neighbor we have a ton of red, pink and white construction paper. We were doing a little painting the other day

and I thought why not paint some cards. For the cards we used a very old potato as a stamp.
Here is what we came up with.







We also had a ridiculous amount of foods last weekend either in a heart shape or with hearts on it. Pizzas, heart shaped, cheesecake with raspberry hearts, spinach pie with phyllo hearts. It was over the top for sure, but Odin thought it was great.

Snow Day

While it was no Storm of the Century or Snowmageddon, we declared today a snow day. It looked like this outside


and also like this


we were out for a while, then our neighbor invited us over for belated birthday presents and cocoa- what a treat!

but mostly our day looked like this

Snow

Just before Christmas, an a whim, I purchased a snow block maker - you know the kind to make suburban igloos. My sister and I had one growing up. I remember a particular day when she convinced me to lay down in a sled, covered me with another sled, and proceeded to lay snow blocks atop the sled. I do remembering them getting very heavy.

Shortly after the purchase I wondered if we would ever have the requisite snow here in Minnesota. You know the big heavy wet snowflakes needed to make snow sculptures. I cannot believe it, but twice now this JANUARY we have had the right conditions to build a snow fort.
I would really like to try for a roof, we'll see what the weather brings.




With all the snow lately, sadly I must add that the conditions are not ripe for a roof!

Four!

We were home this year for Odin's actual birthday -

we had already celebrated up north with everyone,


so we took the day to do fun kiddo stuff. We started at the giant indoor waterpark, Odin enjoyed it, John and I decided we never needed to go back. We then headed across the street and rode some roller coasters. I think most people had the day off because it was BUSY everywhere we went.

It was neat having the day to just play (with the whole rest of the city) and be silly.