January 2015

Aside from celebrating Trent's first year with us and our quick trip to Venice, we spent most of January trying to have fun, but keep warm!  It's been pretty cold here the last few weeks.  Sadly though, we have only had snow once, and it was just a dusting.  Nathan was very sad that all the snow melted by the time he got out of school, so we didn't even get a chance to play in it :(

Happy New Year!

Fun at the playground.

All the boys.

"Can I help, mommy?"

The Imperial War Museum 

Supporting Uncle Casey's team :)

Nathan's new favorite cold weather spot - Clip n Climb.

The boys had such a fun time running around a real pirate ship (The Golden Hinde II)  for Brice's birthday.

Waiting patiently for his bit of the "hidden treasure" that they found.

Captain Nathan.

Pulling up the anchor.

Venice 2015

At the end of January, we took the kids to Venice for a long weekend.  Nathan loved the boats, the elevated sidewalks (one day the tide was high and St. Mark's Square was flooded), the pizza, the gelato, but most importantly, he loved our hotel room.  There was a ledge that ran along the wall above his bed and he had so much fun walking along that and jumping down onto his bed.  There were also lots of little nooks and crannies where he could hide.  There were times that he didn't even want to leave our hotel room because he was having so much fun :)  To be fair, it was a great hotel room - it was right on a little canal and you could just sit in the room and listen to the gondoliers serenading you as they floated by.  But, we did get out and explore the city.  We even took a trip over to Murano to see the famous Murano glass blowing.

On our way to our hotel in a water taxi.

Rialto Bridge

We made it to our hotel.

Nathan's favorite part of Venice :)

Saint Mark's Square

Heading to Murano in a water taxi.

Glass blowing in Murano.

Gelato!

Gondola ride.

St. Mark's Square was flooded during high tide.  Nathan loved the elevated sidewalks.

Heading to the airport. Goodbye Venice.