{"id":516,"date":"2007-12-29T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=516"},"modified":"2007-12-29T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T16:30:51","slug":"Northern snowy winter adventure, Part II","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Northern snowy winter adventure, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Snow!!!<br \/><\/strong>There&#8217;s snow everywhere up here. I can&#8217;t believe how many different beautiful scenes we have seen &#8212; from snow covered barns, snow covered trees, to snow covered frozen lakes, animal tracks, icicles several feet long, etc&#8230; Here&#8217;s a few pictures from our trip in the frozen Northwoods of Northern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a snowy farm house\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/snow01.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>&nbsp;<br \/>A snowy farm scene I came across on a bike ride.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a snow mountain\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/snow02.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>A snow mountain of plowed snow in a parking lot in Madison, WI. Note that it&#8217;s taller than the car.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"long icicles at our favorite coffee shop in spooner, wi\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/snow03.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Long icicles at our favorite coffee shop in Spooner, WI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/snow04.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Icicles at the Cardwell house in Shell Lake, WI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"snow in the frontyard\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/snow05.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Snow in the front yard of the Cardwell house.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/snow06.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The Cardwell house with our car in the driveway.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"snow depth with Shell Lake, WI annotated\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/snow07.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>There&#8217;s more than 22 inches of snow on the ground. Check out this snow depth map with Shell Lake next to the arrow.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Opening Presents<\/strong><br \/>We had a fun time opening Christmas presents. Analise helped organize all the presents into piles before we got started. Then she helped open everybody&#8217;s presents. Lots of fun!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Analise with her Dora doll dressed up in a new dress made in Nicaragua!\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/pres01.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise with her Dora doll dressed up in a new dress made in Nicaragua that <br \/>Grandma Sandy and Poppa Dale found at a craft fair at the local high school. Nicaragua<br \/>is a sister country for the state of Wisconsin and this dress was made by women in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aunt Anna with her new book\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/pres02.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Anna with her new book. Kat checks it out, and Analise has already moved onto the next present.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kristine with her new winter plate\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/pres03.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Kristine with her new winter plate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/pres04.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise wraps Hal as a Christmas present for Anna<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Analise gets wrapped up as a present for everybody!\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/pres05.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise gets wrapped up as a present for everybody!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow!!!There&#8217;s snow everywhere up here. I can&#8217;t believe how many different beautiful scenes we have seen &#8212; from snow covered barns, snow covered trees, to snow covered frozen lakes, animal tracks, icicles several feet long, etc&#8230; Here&#8217;s a few pictures from our trip in the frozen Northwoods of Northern Wisconsin. &nbsp;A snowy farm scene I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-8k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}