Sledding!!

Saturday, February 2

I took M&M with me to run a few errands after lunch today and on the way home we saw a couple of people sledding at our neighborhood park.  It was super beautiful weather and so I decided to ask the kids if they wanted to try out the sledding.  I mentioned it to DH and he questioned if it would be good sledding conditions with the temperatures so warm so I decided to take the kids on a walk to the park and we would try it out.  We took one sled with us (the other two were up in the rafters in the garage).  So we put some jackets on and some of the kids wore their boots and we took gloves with us.  Well it was perfect sledding conditions so after going down a few times and having to take turns and wait for the sled I sent Luke and Blondie home to ask DH if he could get the other sleds down for them.  After a little while they came back with the other sleds and said that their dad was coming too.  He came a minute or two later with his camera and took some video and pictures of the kids.  He got some awesome & hilarious pictures!  There were a couple of jumps that people had made towards the bottom of the hill and several of the pictures are taken as the kids are going off the jumps (although most of the time it was unintentional).  It was a lot more fun with the three sleds and the kids didn't have to wait very long at all to take another ride down the hill.  They were fine doubling up on the sleds and also took turns going one at a time.

We had one little mishap when two sleds were going down at once and DH was taking some video of one sled and walked straight into the path of the second sled.  He jumped out of the way just in time and somehow managed to stay on his feet, but when he jumped his knee collided with M&M's face and she had a slightly swollen lip for a day or two.  I think she also bruised her tailbone a little by going off too many jumps.  Luke kept heading for the trees at the bottom of the hill and bumped into one twice (although not very hard).

MJ went down with hill with me and M&M a couple of times and seemed to be having fun.  I even managed to take both MJ and Kay down at the same time once.  MJ got tired and cold towards the end and then Kay needed to use the bathroom so I walked back home with the two little ones while the older kids stayed a bit longer.

We had a lot of fun, which you can probably tell from the pictures!  Whenever I would get to the bottom of the hill with MJ she would hop off the sled and say, "That was fun, huh?"

These first few pictures are with just the one sled before DH came:

The tree that M&M is headed for is the one that Luke bumped into a couple of times.

These last pictures were taken with DH's DSLR camera: