The cold never bothered me anyway...

Our December was really pretty mild.  The day after Christmas was warm enough for me to go for a run without a jacket, and to take Sadie with me.  

We had some spotty snows, but the kids were dead set on making a snowman. I am not very good at it!

But January rolled around and we have had more cold and snow, though nothing compared to last year.  Sadie does pretty good playing it in sometimes,

and other times I don't want to suit her up to have her come in 5 minutes later.  She was so angry at me this day when I wouldn't let her out with the big kids.

But these two love it out there and can last for awhile in some serious cold.  They are so cute when they are playing well with each other, which actually happens a good amount.

This boy is the winner though.  He begged me to go out and play one day after school when it was -6 windchill, and I said he could if he would come inside when he started to feel cold.  40 minutes later he came in and said very straight faced, "Do you know why I'm in?  Because I almost got frostbite.  I peered under my gloves and noticed my hands were turning red.  Aren't you glad I came in?  Because if I got frostbite you wouldn't be able to feel these nice cheeks.  And do you think I probably saved my life by coming in?"  I love that boy, especially those cheeks:)   (We had read a book together about people that survived really cold places, and talked a lot about frostbite.)  

And as the title alludes, we are now in the full throes of the Frozen mania.  We took the kids last year when it came out and I think they were the only kids on the planet who weren't impressed, but since Marissa has been in school she has been more interested so we watched it again and they are sold.  Marissa tells us all the time "I'm Elsa", and sings the songs and Sadie tries to join in too.  Shane hated it at first but one day I found him hiding behind a door reading a Frozen book and he told me that he realized that Elsa was pretty cool because she has powers.  So Marissa Elsa uses her freezing powers while Shane is fire man or somebody else and they have lots of adventures.