Snow daze

 First the indoor activities of this cold and snowy start to 2015. Friends Gary and Dana invited us to the Museum of Fine Arts and the girls were in a posing mood.

 

 They decided to hold these poses in the atrium area atop these weird shag cushions

 

 Caroline got photographed by a tourist for this one

 

Boston has 10 National Park units and we're going to see them all. Salem Maritime is right in the heart of old Salem.

 

 Their schooner wasn't open this time of year

 

 

but the visitor center let the kids dress up like merchant mariners

 

 Tessie, you are busted sneaking into the snack bag

 

 Poor Max and Clio are showing their age now - they're 13 years old

 

 Since she sleeps in so much, Erin has become Max's buddy

 

 The older girls are into beanie-boo's. Caroline bundled them up for school.

 

 Tessie is now a willing player in the big girls' games. On one of the snow days they played together for two hours!

 You are looking at what I believe is a raccoon latrine underneath a yew bush in the back corner of our yard. One day that gray furry thing appeared and upon inspection was revealed to be a squirrel stuffed animal. I guess even raccoons need their lovies.


It was cold enough for Spy Pond to freeze and the skating was excellent

 Erin made it out on the ice this year

 

 Can you spot them on Elizabeth Island?

 Erin is our snow-lover. We made our best snowman from the first and smallest snowfall

 We schlepped up to the new playground near our house

 Blizzard Juno was forecast to drop 2-3 feet and school was cancelled the night before

 In the end we got somewhere over 2 feet, closing work for one day and school for two

There were drifts 3-4 feet tall, but no problem for the snow blower

Intrepid Erin went out twice a day, every day

Wait, there's more! Less than a week after Blizzard Juno, winter storm Linus van pelted us with another 14 inches and cancelled school for another two days.

 

By the time we hit the sledding hills, they were iced over and all of the jumps were rock solid

It did cross my mind that I might be showing these videos to an ER orthopedist


This hill is famous because it has hay bales at the bottom. The girls learned to bail before the bales.


Forget the luge - riding ice chunks down a chute could be the next Olympic sport