Walk to the lake

After taking the kids on two walks outside in January and I believe ZERO in all of February, I was getting pretty stir crazy by the time March rolled around. Thankfully, at the tail end of February through the beginning of March, we were able to string together enough days with highs in the 30s for the icy sidewalks to begin to melt, so that it wasn't quite so hazardous to venture out with an intrepid three-year-old and a baby in tow. We celebrated the thaw the weekend after the beginning of "meteorological spring" (March 1) by taking our first family walk down to the lake in 2013.

 

Of course, this being Minnesota, on the two days after these pictures were taken we had one of our biggest snowstorms of the winter. Ah, well -- at least at this point we know the snow can't last much longer!