We are finally here!!! Minnesota!!!

Well, we are finally in Minnesota and have been here about a week. We have yet to get used to the cold and what seems like 20 minutes to get ready to just walk out the door. We had to buy a coat, glove, and hat rack for by the door for there is no running outside to the car without outerwear on. Here are a few pics of our trip up to Owatonna.

Drake and Shea picking up the Penske truck in Jackson. Drake calls it the "Big Wheeler"

Lexi coloring pictures that she had lined up on the window as she got done. They both were wonderful riders the whole way. My little troopers!!

When we got to Cedar Rapids, Iowa we saw snow banks (dirty snow banks). But it was snow to us so we had to get a picture. And off to bed for us....we were exhausted!!!

The next morning, we ate a yummy breakfast and off we were again.

But not before we spotted an even bigger snow bank!

Of course, for Drake we had to make a stop on the side of the road and before we took off I snapped a pic of them all piled up in the "Big Wheeler".

At the gas station getting a snack.

This was one of the neatest things that I have ever seen. It is the windmills for electricity and we probably went through about 100 of them.

We finally got here and the kids dove right into the snow. Northerners call it "old' snow because it has been on the ground since November. They had a thaw about 3 weeks ago and alot of it melted so you could see grass. But to us, it was the most snow we had seen in a long time and it doesn't go away by noon the next day.

Drake making a snow angel. Didn't work to well because it wasn't fresh snow.

We had to go and buy snow boots, of course, and they love them.

Playing in the front yard.