Our winter break was fantastic! Mostly slow days with a mini adventure thrown in! The pandemic holiday season was strange for sure but still full of love and laughter and family. When this pandemic has become part of the history books and not our now, our present, I think the thing I will remember most is TIME. All aspects of it and what it means in a literal sense and what it stands for in a more profound way. Time has been a concept that I have held close and prominently in my life for many years but in the last 10 months my how it has made its presence known. Mostly in a good way. So many lessons learned and there is always good in that!
Our winter break in pictures....
We all know that I have become very close with the kitchen but this little guy has too! He had a math extra credit assignment of altering a given recipe to make chocolate chip cookies, that was a no brainer!
Our mornings...family walk every. single. morning. Love.
Our evenings....Reindeer basketball
We briefly went to HH to do a little Christmas celebration with Ima and Shesh and we left this guy with them for the holidays! What a gift that was....FOR US! Ha! We love our Jasper but he can be a lot and we SO enjoyed our Jasper-free time. I think Ima and Shesh didn't mind the company and Jasper was probably happy to slow life down a bit. And...who can complain when you get to take walks here?!
L...forever taking the road less traveled.
Check out the following sequence.....
We played bocce with Ima!
Home for our annual gingerbread making and decorating...Luke getting a "power up"! Thank you Granny and Papaw for the perfect gift each year!
We all did A LOT of reading!
While this guy lived the island dream Christmas!
We hiked A LOT!!!
Our favorite travel companion!
This place was amazing and we went on a guided spelunking adventure for over 2 hours 350 feet under ground! 70% of the time we were on our stomachs crawling and grabbing our way through the dark! It was SO MUCH FUN! We had to fit through a box at the start to make sure we could fit through some of the more narrow passageways. The box was 31inches wide and 14 inches tall. We had a blast! Luke wished that there was more crawling and tighter spaces. Ha! Kids.
We did not have our phones for pictures during the spelunking because they would have been crushed no matter which pocket we kept them in. But we went back in the cave for a walking tour .... a great experience too but really only touches the surface of what all lies in nearly 27 miles of mapped cave twists and turns. The walking tour was nice but our belly crawling/helmet wearing adventure was the real deal!
Blokus...the favorite game of winter break!
Oh and I had a couple weeks of a massive ginger kick! This is a ginger pudding cake that L deemed the best thing that came out of my ginger obsession!
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