Weekend: cottage

This past weekend we went up to Dad and Pat's cottage.  Nathan and his family were there too, and we had a great time.

It had snowed out, so we ended up spending quite some time outside in the morning.  The kids threw snowballs, 

did some swinging,

cracked as much ice as they could find (carefully),

sledded,

and helped with the fire to burn some sticks.

Oh, they also investigated snow melting on the fire.  The well-packed snow balls melted much slower than I was expecting.

Isaac is really into a book series and spent some time reading.  I was rather surprised, because this is usually not his activity of choice.

The kids watched Lady and the Tramp.

There were also a few Lego sets that came out.  Isaac and Jameson got theirs done pretty quickly, but Evelyn and Joshua worked steadily on theirs both days.

More matching people!

Dad played Azul with Isaac.  Isaac explained most of the rules and did a pretty good job.

Joshua finished his spider lair and so the younger kids played with that for a bit.

It's been a while since I've seen Nathan's family, so it was especially nice to be able to spend some time with them.