Easter weekend in VT

This past weekend we went to Vermont with the hopes that the sap would run (for maple syrup), and to spend some time with our family and friends. The sap didn't end up running much so we didn't get to boil, but we still had fun. On Saturday we went up to Fred Tefft's land (This was Eddies shop teacher in high school and a friend of the Smith family) to do some snow shoeing, it was a pretty fast trip to the top of his hill and back because it was really windy and cold, but the view was great.

After that we went up into Jimmie's (Eddie's brother) sugar bush to do some maintenance on the sap lines. We took Alison up in her sled, which she enjoyed only if we where moving, otherwise she wanted to walk on her own and copy what Eddie, Jimmie and Eric where doing, as you will see in one of the pictures, Eddie and Jimmie were stomping on the snow to unbury the sap lines and Alison joined right in and copyed them, it was really cute.










After naptime we went outside again and Alison had a lot of fun playing in the puddles and mud in her boots.






















After a day outside Jamie made a super spaghetti dinner which Alison absolutely loved as you can tell from her pictures. She has also started to do this really funny "smile" when you bring out the camera and tell her to smile.











The next day was Easter and we had an Easter egg hunt with the kids (Matthew, Brianna, and Alison). They had a lot of fun searching for the eggs.























It was a great trip over all even though we didn't get to make any syrup. Maybe next weekend.