Too Cold!

I never make New Year’s resolutions because I am way too lazy to follow through on them, so I make “unofficial” ones instead.
One of my resolutions is to run even on days when I think it’s too cold…….like today when it was -13 Fahrenheit. I mean, really, we moved from Minnesota to get away from this kind of cold. It made me feel a tiny bit better though when I checked the weather in our home town in North Dakota and saw they were at -18.
Ruger was so excited to go out that he couldn’t quite sit down but was trying his hardest to be polite as he waited for me to dress for the cold.
I bundled up in running tights, old Columbia sweat pants, fleece lined blaze orange hunting shirt hand me down from Seth, double layered Columbia winter coat, two beanies, a scarf, running gloves, snowmobile gloves and my new yak tracks that I received from Seth for Christmas.
The only thing I didn’t have was booties for poor Ruger’s feet. We made it two blocks before he started limping from the cold so we turned around and raced back home as fast as we could.
I did a 10 minute workout that I found on Pinterest instead while Ruger stuffed his face with dog food.
Tomorrow should be warmer, so here’s hoping we make it further than two blocks next time!

Family Visit

Hey there! We had an awesome Christmas and hope that you did too!
Here’s our family photo and a couple of the kiddos. I think they get cuter every day, but I might be biased.
I usually save my vacation and take about 1 1/2 weeks off at the end of the year and Seth was laid off of work for 2 weeks at the same time this year, so we all got to be home together for the boys’ entire school break.
We went to Seth’s younger sister’s house for Christmas Eve
and then everyone came over to our place for Christmas Day.
I made some lefse that turned I had prepped a couple days before and then was too lazy to make.
My parents came to visit after Christmas and brought the boys some boxing gloves that were literally a hit. Haha!
They were only here for one full day so we made the most of it by driving up to the mountains and tubing.
There wasn’t much snow once we got up there, but there was still plenty on the tubing hill, so it worked.
And lastly, my grandma sent a story book for the boys with a recording of her reading the book to them. It is the sweetest thing ever and by far their favorite Christmas present. Thanks Grandma!