Sledding

We haven't gotten a ton of snow yet, but we got a few inches this weekend and the winter still hasn't turned bitterly cold like it will soon, so we've taken a couple opportunities to go sledding. It started snowing on Saturday. We were assigned to clean the church that morning and since there is a perfect little sledding hill behind the church I told the kids to bring their sleds. Once we finished with the cleaning, they had awhile to sled. As you can see, the snow hadn't gotten very deep yet, but it was enough to make it slippery. They got to take a few turns each before their clothes got all wet, so we got some hot chocolate on the way home.

We are all done with school for the year, so our Monday morning was open for sledding. This time we went to the wooded area near our house that we like to hike around in. There is a hill that is pretty quick to walk to, but it looked like someone had already been there before we got there. The snow already wasn't too deep and a lot had been uncovered and was just dirt and leaves mixed with snow.

I let the kids sled there for quite awhile, then finally talked them into continuing on down the trail to see what we could find.

You can't see it much here since his face is pretty rosy from the cold, but Trevor crashed on one of his first rides (before Natalie and I even made it to the hill) and scraped his cheek and lip up a bit.

Natalie enjoyed being pulled most of the way and the kids found small hills that they could sled down. It was a fun morning, but everyone was exhausted and ready for lunch at the end. I promised the kids we can come back again right after the next big (or even mediocre) snow storm and sled on the big hill before it gets ruined.