Christmas Eve Snowshoe

Brent passionately dislikes the snow... can you believe it?! (I blame his car... after driving it last winter I could see how people FREAK OUT about driving in the snow and how they could develop a hate for it... we were lucky enough to get snow tires this year, snow tires have changed our lives! I always thought they were some scam... I mean how can tires REALLY make a difference in how your car drives in the snow? Well, let me tell you, they have TRANSFORMED how our car drives in the snow! I have a testimony of the POWER of snow tires.)

To help Brent overcome his snow-hatred I have been introducing him to FUN snow activities (and I got him a Wii Winter Sports game also... i figured it couldn't hurt). I guess you could call it manipulation, but I think of it as helping Brent broaden his horizons to accepting the snow world... and maybe, possibly, someday he'll actually be excited to see a snowflake falling from the sky! Last year we went cross-country skiing... so this year we tried SNOWSHOEING! Brent LOVED it! (Bwahaha... my evil plan is working...). We went snowshoeing on Christmas Eve down a canyon by our cabin. We followed the river, some animal tracks, and some strange human tracks (we never could figure out where the human was traveling...). We hiked past an old trapper's cabin and crossed the river a bazillion times... each time usually provided a pretty good laugh. We were also lucky enough NOT to run into any moose.

Cindy snowshoeing

Brent the elf (doesn't he look like an elf in this picture? I'm not sure if it is the big snowshoes or the way his beanie is angled... but something looks elf-ish).

Brent leading the way (I think the cabin in the background is the old trapper cabin) (Doesn't the cabin look cozy with all the fog around the mountain peaks?!)