C-c-c-cold Winter Fun

This January is proving to be just about unbearable, weather-wise.  It's sooo cold, and the air is sooo gross, and I'm getting sooo tired of it!  Blech.  But we have tried to do a few fun things outside when we can.  Here are some pictures of us sledding last weekend (a nice small hill that is just big enough for the kids to have fun, but small enough that they can drag their own sleds back up time and time again without complaining.)  Bree even went down with us many times--and all by herself one time!--and had a lot of fun.

Every year in Bear Lake there is something called the Cisco Run.  The "Bear Lake Cisco" are little fish that are only found in Bear Lake.  At the end of each January they surface for about 10 days to spawn, and if you cut a hole in the ice you can catch them by the dozens!  You just put in your net and watch as they swim by in schools and then you scoop 'em up!  It's so much fun for the kids too because they never get bored waiting for a bite on a fishing line; they just look right in the water and see them swimming by.  Bryan used to go with his family to the Cisco Run when he was little but I had never heard of it until college at USU.  It's a lot of fun!  I bet we caught 70 fish in about an hour!  (We just "caught and released," but we did have one casualty...the kids liked to hold the fish and one little guy got dropped on the hard ice once or twice too many times, and then just floated when we threw him back.  Oops.  So, we scooped him back out and let Bree carry him around for the rest of the time.)