Our backyard hot tub. Check back here for more redneck things to do to pass time in the winter.
In all honesty, I saw someone post pictures of a similar thing with her kids and I just knew Conrad and Ezra would love it... and they did! So not only a great memory made but funny pictures made too. My husband saw me filling five gallon buckets with hot water and thought I'd lost my mind. 🤪 Worth it.
We welcomed the New Year with so much snow, ice, and wind, that the boys had two extra days off from school to play! They went to school Monday (the roads were terrible) but then school was canceled Tuesday and Wednesday. They played hard outside both days doing what boys do best: making precarious sledding choices (i.e. running into a pile of logs or sage brush) and getting soaking wet. But I prefer that over dealing with their pent up obnoxious energy inside the house. There was also a lot of Nintendo those two days too.
While they played at the neighbor's house one afternoon, I strapped Ezra into the hiking backpack and we went snowshoeing down in Little Cottonwood Creek. I was the first to make tracks and thoroughly enjoyed watching the dogs bound through the snow ahead me. It was so quiet! Everything was blanketed in a soft thick layer of snow as snowflakes drifted down from the sky. A true winter wonderland! I often stopped to just listen to the birds and Ezra's soft breathing behind my ear; he was mesmerized too.