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| Friday night we headed to the Minneapolis Novas hockey game. Amazing how much a hot dog at the arena makes a kid happy. |
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| Saturday we headed to Crashed Ice...along with 100,000 other people. Cool to see. |
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| Crashed Ice |
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| Snowy afternoon skating with Bobby and Greta. David's friend Hart was skating too! |
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| Sunday night was Downton Abbey night. For the occasion we made a "spot of tea"! Very fun time. |
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| Tea with a side of Coors Light. |
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| Sunday we braved the cold weather to go Snowshoeing down the river. It was absolutely gorgeous and we got in an awesome workout. |
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| We snowshoed down to the Burns shack and back. |
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| Jimmy and Foxy rode home on top of our woodpile. Good thing they were all tuckered out from running. |
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| Grandpa and Mikko playing Candyland. Loved seeing this from outside. |
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| We ran dangerously close to running out of diapers so I drove to the nearest TINY town. They had one package of diapers that happened to be Mikko's size. |
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| The temperature was not as cold as last year, but the road was snowy/slushy so it was super hard to get traction. A hard run! |
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| We had a little get together at the shack afterwards - chili, soup, sledding! |
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| Playing with flashlights in the bunkbed - always a hit! |
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| Smores. It was starting to get REALLY cold! |
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| Bundled up for a cold day |
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| We brought hot chocolate and cookies and snuck into the warming house to warm our toes. |
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| Mikko has improved so much in two weeks. |
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| He thought it was super funny to cover his face up with the cookie when I tried to take his picture. |
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| Mikko gets to put up a Thomas Sticker every time he goes pee on the potty. |
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| When he poops on the potty he gets another train track. I told him when he goes a night without pee in his pullup he'll get Tidmouth Shed. Finally making some progress on the potty front. |
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| Greta was SO into the dogs when we spent New Years together that I decided to have a Puppy Party for her. They ate out of dog dishes. |
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| Foxy got some grooming from Greta. |
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| Jimmy's turn. |
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| Making Dog Biscuits. |
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| They made all kinds of shaped dog biscuits. |
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| dog bone shaped pizza |
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| Eating out of dog bowls. |
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| There is a huge outdoor rink at David's school. |
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| Great skating weather - no one melted down about their toes freezing. |
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| I spent 90% of the time pushing Mikko around on this chair. Go Left. Go Right. Faster. More circles. Not into the sun Mommy. He was pretty bossy :) |
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| New Skates! |
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| Watching Vikings game on Saturday night. Mikko kept hitting his head on things so we took out the helmet. He thought it was pretty funny. |
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| This is where I found Davit at about 4:00am. Top of the stairs. Too tired to even crawl in bed with us I guess. |
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| Grandma Carol gave us a membership to the Children's Museum. David loves this place. Here he is working the crane. |
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| It was all fun until it was time to leave. We carried two crying kicking boys out. Not a picture for their brochure. |
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| Snowshoeing |
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| Off on an Adventure Hike. |
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| David carried a giant candy cane for protection against animals. |
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| We came upon this super cool scene. It is in a field and you can see where an owl swooped down to catch something. The marks from its wings are in the snow. David was blown away! |
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| David helping Grandpa shovel the river for skating. |
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| Lots of sledding, as always. |
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| Making Tom and Jerry's |
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| Mikko got new hockey skates. |
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| Skating on Rainy Lake with Nissa |
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| Cousins |
