January 2014

I spent 10 days during the coldest part of the coldest winter in Minnesota watching the girls--but it didn't bother them!







We took a short cruise when I got back looking for some warmth--found some and a gorgeous full moon evening on the ocean.

The rest of December

 We baked Christmas cookies with the Smiths. One of our traditional cookies is Mom Mitchell's Norwegian kringla.

 We celebrated Christmas with Jason's Florida family at Caryn and Jason's house.












The boys spent time with us since school was closed for the holidays. I wrongly assumed that giving them markers would be creatively used on paper.