january extras

winter 2012 started out with all kinds of fun...

but has quickly turned bitter cold and brown.

the snow that we once enjoyed has slipped away and the winds have been downright frightful.

so, we spent the majority of January inside.

 which i'm pretty okay with.

there is something truly sweet about being all together under one roof with no excuse to run here or there.

just being together has been blissful...mostly

i say "mostly" because i know that too much of a good thing can sometimes turn sour.  and all this snuggling up inside is sweet...but it is also driving us to conversations about when we can put on swimsuits, flip flops and enjoy the backyard again.

i think we're getting spring fever - and it's only the beginning of february....

little miss likes to double the brrrr with popsicles on a forty below windchill day.  silly little pickle.  :)

hmmmm - these are the times when a girl needs to get creative and beat the winter blahs.

but, honestly, i'm running out of ideas.  :(

we got so stir crazy one day that i got brave enough to give this lil' peanut her first trim.

it was comical, i'm sure, to watch me chase her around our little bathroom while she turned on and off the lights.

but, we survived - she's looking less scraggly and i think i did a decent job.

oh the things that a MN winter will drive you to do!

in the interest of not undertaking any more crazy stunts like this one, let's hope for an early spring