Too cold

Yesterday and today have been miserably cold.  Like a high of -1 yesterday kind of cold.  You read that right, it wasn't  31, or even 21, or even 1 degree outside.  A high of negative 1 means most of the day the temperatures were in the negative double digits.  Our crew all decided it was not worth getting frostbite to go skiing so everyone took the day off.  Rylan's birthday is coming up in a few weeks and we had planned to celebrate with him while we were all out here.  To get out of the house we walked to the village for a birthday lunch out and then came back to have cake and let Rylan open presents.

The rest of the day was spent trying to come up with activities to keep the kids (and us) from going stir crazy.  Thankfully, the kids are pretty oblivious to the fact that we hardly saw the light of day and had lots of fun playing with Rylan's new toys.  Another thing they look forward to every evening is getting on their PJ's and meeting back in the living room to cuddle up with Gigi to read stories.

Today's temperatures haven't been much better.  I believe they predicted a high of between 3-7 degrees.  Robby, his brother and his parents braved the weather for a little while, but came in after a few runs.  Most everyone else here has had the same idea because the usual very busy hill outside our condo has been bare with only a skier here and there all day today and yesterday.

This morning I decided I'd have to get creative to keep the kids entertained indoors again all day.  We started with building a fort, played several rounds of games, made things with play dough, and had fun trying on Gigi's shoes.

While they were doing all of that I did laundry and starting cooking dinner to keep from getting too bored.  Sounds like a grand old time, huh?  Helen offered to watch the girls so I could get out and do something, but there really isn't anything to do so I decided to just smile, make the most of these indoor days, and start dreaming of spring and summer temperatures.

Handley really wanted to ski today, but there was no way we could let her out in those frigid temperatures.  Thankfully, the next two days here are supposed to be at least 20-30 degrees warmer and will make for much better skiing conditions for everyone (and better walking around the village conditions for me). :-)