The Coopers each grab a brush and hop onto a trailer to remove a blanket of snow covering a tarp and a winter toy.

The fatigue that once kept Kim Cooper from the work and play that many healthy adults take for granted is replaced by enough energy at times to outpace her own family.

"I feel like a different person," Cooper says before the family worked together to free her husband's 2008 Yamaha FX Nitro.