The Cousins are here

The cousins are here-yipee!!!!! That means that not only is the house major chaos, the couches are getting well used for jumping and flipping and we have just barely enough room to all fit around the table but it also means....

 Sledding!!!!

 Here is Uncle Daniel running along side to make sure the sled stays on course.

 Uncle Daniel with his boys Jakob and Andrew

 Brai being her usual timid self and not wanting to try out the sledding so she hung out with the photographer

 Allie went with Auntie Jenny and then declared, "I pretty much have to do that again."

 Uncle Daniel and the boys drive the 4-wheeler to pull the sled back up the hill (oh how this would have been so helpful back when we were kids).

 I took this picture upside down of Brai clinging to my leg.

 Cute camo marshmallows.  I have no idea who is who.  I am a terrible Aunt.

 One more taken upside down and between my legs.

And lastly here is Brai back in the truck with her crazy touque hair (touque is our term for a winter hat-who knows how to spell it).

Some Real Snow

Now that we are in Canada the girls have got the chance to experience some real snow-including all the tons of gear one must put on to go out in the real snow.  What a pain.  Kudos to all the winter moms out there that do this regularly.  Kudos to my own mom for doing it with three and then lugging us all over the creation.  

 This big orange sled is actually a calf sled that my dad had from our cattle days.  It works perfectly though for pulling the kids around.

 The weird looking mittens are due to the fact that we don't own any good snow mittens and the stores are charging WAY too much money for a pair.  We just wear our little ones and a pair of Grammy's on top.

 Modeling the snow pants for our second outing in the snow.

 This hat was for the snowman we made.  Brai looks adorable in it.

 This way too.

 The girls and mom made a snowman and by "the girls" I mean they sat on the snow bank and barked orders and mom rolled all over the yard for their personal winter experience.  We call him the hunter snowman for daddy.

 Garden tools double nicely as snow tools in a pinch.