A weekend at a cabin

Over President's Day weekend we went up to Strawberry, AZ to stay in the cabins where Evan and I spent our college-student-budgeted honeymoon.  These cozy A-frames were perfect for a weekend to reconnect.  

And there was snow.  Not a great deal as the week had warmed up since the last dumping, but there was still enough on the ground the first couple of days to really have a good time.

Amelia made a Kirby snowman.  

Simon made all sorts of footprints in the snow.

Dylan worked with Evan to get the snowman started.

 Amelia and Simon helped, too.  

And eventually, we had this:

Simon wanted to hug him, but this was as close as he got.

We decided that he needed some hair, so we punked him out with a green spiky Mohawk.

And then there was a snowball fight, boys against girls.  Amelia and I were laughing too hard to throw many balls and then the boys took over the table with all the ammo. So I have to say with a sad salute, that the girls lost.

Then there was sledding...We had so much fun that my camera died.  With all of the nearly melted snow, it was tough to find a good spot and the snow play area was closed.  So, we kept driving down the woodland roads with Evan's ever lucky radar in high gear.  Finally, we came upon a closed off road in the shade with the perfect width and slope to slide down on our somewhat flimsy plastic sleds. It was awesome.