skipping stones on ice

One of things we discovered on our walk is how cool it is to skip stones across the ice covered slough (a slow moving river) not to mention the awsome sound it makes, with just a thin layer of ice on top it make an undescribable hollow kind of sound?? We couldn't get enough and ended up spending all the time playing and didn't get a whole lot collected for the project....

A family walk in Alaska

Cayley is learning about the Athabaskans in school and had to build her own model of an Athabaskan shelter. Although we have great resources in our own yard we thought we would take a walk to find items to build the shelter, or should we say a slide... the kids loved running and sliding in the snow, which was now packed down tightly on the roads..Ty thought it was great fun to let sally pull him on hs belly!I know it looks cold but it was actually very refreshing. I brought the camera because you never know what you will see around here, but we didn't run into any large creatures (I think we were way too loud and disturbed nature).

Winter is amongst us!

White surrounds us, our breath is visible, we must allow extra time to go anywhere, start the car ahead of time (not to cool it off anymore), slick roads, and lots of extra clothing...MOOSETRACKS IN OUR FRONT YARD!

Although, I am pleasantly surprised that 15 F is not as cold as I thought and is very tolerable. In fact I probably felt it colder in my yearspent in FL! Check my blog often to read my thoughts on -50F!!! We are excited to go to Birch Hill, just up the road to go skiing, snowboarding (not me) and tubing : ) The kids are driving us crazy to go, even after our 1st inch of snow!