photo montage

Montage /mɒnˈtɑːʒ/ is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. 

(definition taken from here)

Here is my photo montage of some of my favorites from the past few months...

"Mommy, I need hot cocoa to warm me up!"

Yes, I have a climber.

this is how "water-play" generally goes in our family....from Peter to Hannah

coloring with pastels on our camping trip

our friend Sophie, enjoying the sand

beach happy

flying kites with daddy

me and my littlest one

California poppies, even at the beach

some cute baby faces

reading bedtime stories by headlamp with Alex,

 can't decide which is my favorite... 

snow fun

a daddy and his girl

I love his happy, post-sledding face

the 5 of us

bedtime reading at the cabin

my happy girl

a night away with my love, sleepy but happy faces...

It's been a pretty, good February and March. 

 I am incredibly grateful for it!!!

snow fun

Last weekend we packed up our family and headed to Donner Lake for some snow fun!



Peter was not so sure about the snow our first day there, so while the rest of us played in it, shoveled a path up to the cabin and got the heat turned on - he was content to hang out in the car and "drive".

He finally warmed up to the snow over the course of the weekend and was  loving it by Sunday!

 

this is Peter's happy, excited "yeah" pose

Matt had promised Hannah that he would take her up to the snow to make a snowman this winter (which turned out to be a hard promise to keep this dry winter) but here is the large, wonderful snowman we made! 

(For some reason she is making a sad face in this picture, not sure I can explain it other than that she is three.)

We had snowball fights.

And did lots of sledding.
 Matt built us a sled run in the driveway and it was pretty awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

after dinner, night time was good for about two sled runs!

Matt also shoveled out some big caves in the snow on the deck to "hide" in.

Where's Peter?

There he is!

Even Toby got in on the snow fun!
For a fair weather dog who dislike the rain and cold - he did extremely well in the snow!

Can't wait to go back!