Who says below zero and the winter froze zone is no fun...

This is the St. Paul Winter Carnival Festival at the Fairgrounds... They were giving away adult prizes , firetruck rides and prizes for the kids....Below is a maze castle that was realllllllllly solid and fun for the kids, most states have hay mazes, we have snow mazes...

The castle

We all got a firetruck ride with the St. Paul firemen, they were really fun and friendly.. We had the Bydlons and Anna Metraus with us..

A beautiful snow sculpture of evergreen

The Viking

Zack in the snow maze..All the kids, mine and everyone else looked alike..All the kids were so bundled up and so many had the same jackets, it would be easy to grab someone else's child..The whole time I thought I had my eye on my child and it wasn't. Even Chris was lost to me in the crowd of bundlers...

The kids are digging for poker chips, each color won a different prize. The white ones were worth the most, go figure. they blended well.. They had a blast digging in the subzero temps for prizes..

You cant read the sign, but it says "Heated bathrooms located by the main gate"You can only imagine how cold these ones were...

Below is the Ice Scultping in downtown St. Paul

The fishermans day..

The ne is a guy resting on a hammock in Jamaica or some island, and on the nightstand beside him is a cell phone, a pitcher of water, a beer.. It was soooooo authentic and real..

Because of the sun, you cant really see this, but it was amazing and captivating.. It is the last supper, and I wish you could see the faces, almost scarry how real and lifelike they were.

The Shark ...Or maybe a catch from some fisherman's tale.

The boys studied Greek Mythology this year in Tapestry and so to see some of the greek god's and for them to know their names was kind of cool...This is Zeus...

The cat..

Batman... Oh the boys loved this one...

Tapestry of Stress (oops, did I say stress, I mean) Tapestry of Grace....

At the end of each Unit in Tapestry, we have a feast or gathering to celebrate all we have learned.. We just finished unit II where we learned about ancient china, india, mayans, greece, the promised land and so on.. Here the girls represent china, india and greece..

Zack in his toga..

Here is Jennifer in her india costume, Olivia is from China and the rest had togas on..

Nicholas is arm wrestling his buddy Brian Donohoo.. It was sweet to let them join our Pentathalon. We were supposed to have 5 events that were the original events in Mount Olympus.. Running, jumping, wrestling, javelin, discus throw.. For the javelin, they were to toss a chopstick and for the discus,a butter lid... Instead of wrestling, we arm wrestled.. Being so cold up north, we had to make do inside.

Zack is arm wrestling a 10 year old, Jonah.. I was scared that he would go right down, but surprisingly it was almost a tie...

Josh barely beat Jacob the first time, but Josh did end losing to Jacob, but won first place in the long jump...

Ahhh. My football player stuck in a toga... He had fun at the olympics and was happy they included him and Brian, the two kindergartners.

Josh in his toga..