Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Also over Thanksgiving we went for a snowy walk in the woods near Mom’s condo, and even went sledding down a little hill there on a tray Mom found. There were so many cute pictures that I thought I’d do a separate post about our snow adventure.

I'm all bundled up and ready to "go crunching snow!"

A walk in the woods doesn't get much prettier than this.

Elijah really liked walking on the snow, or “crunching snow” as he called it. He wasn’t so sure about the sledding at first, but thought it was really fun to watch Daddy sled down the hill (Mommy thought that was fun too).

I'm not so sure about this, Dad . . .

Hey, this is kind of fun (though I wish I'd stop getting turned around!)

It's much more fun to watch Daddy though!

Eli really got in to walking in the woods, and Jon and I couldn’t walk fast enough for him, he was so eager to explore the trail. At one point he got it in his head that the leaves needed to have the snow brushed off of them. In a woods there are lots of leaves on the ground, so it took quite a while to convince him that they didn’t ALL need to be cleaned off.

Getting these leaves cleaned off is going to be a big job.

Eli also found a piece of snow covered ice off in the woods and decided to have a taste. It wasn’t quite what he was expecting! I remember eating snow when I was a kid and loving it (the good clean, just fallen snow), so we’ll see if Elijah likes to eat snow too. He didn’t think the ice was that great though.

Hmm, is this ice cream, right on the side of the trail?Ick, that's not ice cream. It's cccccold though.

After about an hour outside Mommy was cold so we took a little rest on a handy bench, then headed back home.

Taking a rest with Dad.

Hey, where did Elijah go?

I found him!

After a little more sledding fun (this time going down with Daddy), we headed back inside for lunch and hot chocolate. I’m glad that Eli liked sledding because I think going with all the kids over Christmas will be a blast!

I like sledding when I get to ride with Daddy!