Snow!

Pretty much the first thing Stian wanted to do when we got up the first morning in Minnesota was go outside and play in the snow! We hadn't had any snow in Memphis yet (I guess they got some while we were gone though - but it was gone by the time we got back). We had to wait a little while because I had had Karin go shopping for snow gear at the Goodwill up in Minnesota as I couldn't find anything cheap down here, and I just didn't want to spend a lot of money on snow gear that was going to get used for a week! Karin found great stuff, super cheap! So Brad brought it over to us mid morning and out the kids went.

Grandma gets an awesome huge snow pile in her yard because of how they plow the cul de sac she lives in, and Stian though it was fun climbing it.

Silje did great in the snow. You may recall that Stian hated it. He cried and cried when we took him out in it the first few times. But Silje didn't mind at all. She didn't even mind being all bundled up so that she could barely walk. She was a trooper and waddled as much as she could. She did get a little bored though, so I brought her inside and Kris took Stian over to the sledding hill in the park by the house.

This was the first year Stian really enjoyed sledding, and wasn't nervous about it. Silje didn't get to go on this trip. Turns out she probably should have though, because as you'll see later, she loved sledding!