Snow and buddies in February

Brrrrr. It's cold here, but I guess less cold than last year. Sadie and I are missing Brian, but we've been keeping busy. We have started swimming lessons on Monday and Wednesday mornings. I'd put pictures of that up, but it's all I can do to hold the girl in the water, much less a camera! There are three other little girls in the class and it's so fun! We sing songs like The Wheels on the Bus and a song in Japanese about a frog.

We're also having fun with our friends, doing some winter festival touring on the weekends. Last week we went to Hirosaki for a snow festival. It was cold, indeed, but there wasn't very much snow. We did get to go sledding; as you can%2