Woodn't miss a thing: Buried in Snow and Broken Ankles

Minnesota received some record snow and low temperatures the winter I was engaged to Ethan. The kids had four or five snow days due to wind chill and snow. It was unbelievable. You'll see some traces of that in the photos that follow. I spent 3 weeks in Minnesota for the holidays. We enjoyed a lot of family time. We attended "A Christmas Carol" at the Guthrie, did a lot of cooking and baking, watched Tanner swim, took engagement photos, celebrated Christmas and New Years, played games, and watched some movies. I managed to do all of this with a broken ankle! Yes, I broke just days before I was to fly out to Minnesota. Crazy stairs. Ethan and the kids were very helpful and patient with my disability. And the Kirchmann's have the perfect set up for my injury--a chair lift and accessible bathroom. What a blessing that was to my casted ankle.

Tanner's swimmeet

We had a great time cheering him on as a family.

Gingerbread house fun!

Baking lots and lots of cookies.

Out to eat at a Japenese Steakhouse. Tanner's birthday gift from Grandma and Grandpa Wood. Yum!

Christmas Eve tradition: bowling and breakfast with the Butts family and clan

Christmas morning

And more

Can you see all of the snow we had for snowshoeing to use Lindsey's Christmas present? Unreal. Tanner and Lindsey could jump off our deck, into the snow. That much, no lying.