We tried some skiing in the yard today as coverage was excellent. Will has logged some serious time on his nordic skiis and was dying to try the downhill skiis acquired from the Bollefers. There is a great community of parents here that gets gear around and used as it can be very expensive to have to rent or buy gear all the time. We have some stuff that can be passed along too if anyone needing it wants to take a look. Madeleine got out today to do some crosscountry and really impressed me with all that she remembered from her lessons last year, it was pretty awesome. I was in snowshoes and had to run to keep up a lot of the time. She also was a big help To her brother, he actually said that " Maddie already taught me how to ski I don't need lessons". At the end of the trip she was also the cause of his frustration as she was so quick.

It was the first big snowfall last night. Only 20cm but a good start. The snow is here til April. Everyone should come and see us and enjoy this stuff, it is fantastic.

Just some photos from a few weeks back. We have enough snow now in town that Will went cross country skiing in the park today. He was very excited and had a great time. Cee got to toboggan and MadB was at school. We have had some beautiful days with snowy mountains and blue skies. These have been a great pleasure as so much cloud has been around lately, and thankfully left a large load of snow.

Here are some winter themed pictures as I would say it is winter now. A couple of cold snowy days plus we are skating skiing and building snowmen, winter has started.