We had a lovely weekend in Winthrop celebrating the New Year and a chance to escape from city life. There was a couple of feet of snow on the ground that made for a Winter Wonderland. The mule deer were in abundance and eventually braved our deck to get some food and meet the kids eye-to-eye, separated only by a piece of glass. I just love the deer's face in the right-hand picture. It was as if he sized Mason up and just concluded "no threat, I'm bigger than you."


For fun we threw the kids down the hill on a sled. By the end of the day Mason was so tired his eyes were rolling back in his head as he lay on the snow at the bottom of the hill, but he still wanted more. The closest they came to quitting came when Kenzie asked to go down a small cliff (there was a lot of cushy snow for her to fall into, but still a very steep straight drop down). She came up and said, "Mom. That was kind-of dreadful. It was a little crazy. But I'm okay. Can we try the other hill now?" She then asked me if I wanted to go down the cliff. I said, "no way! That looks scary!"