While everyone was in town for Christmas this year we happened to get a big snowstorm, which dumped a nice amount of snow on us so that we could go sledding (without having to wade through deep deep snow)! Grandma corralled the kids into getting outside, and I’m glad she persisted because the kids (and adults) had a blast. Elijah was much more cooperative this time as well (see previous post), once he saw that the other kids were getting on all their snow gear and heading out.
We just went down the little hill behind my parent’s house, and that was great since the kids could walk back up it on their own, and if the adults pulled them it didn’t tire us out. Grandma had bought a big family sled which worked the best, especially when it was loaded down with little ones. :) Elijah liked to lie in the sled instead of sit, and he and Andrew rode down the hill quite a bit that way.
After sledding for a while the attention turned to snowball fights! The boys ganged up on Uncle Jon a bit, but Uncle Jon got them back pretty well, throwing snow furiously backwards over his head. We played snow tag and made snow angels too, and then the littler ones headed in, while Jon, Grandma, me, Noah, Nathan, Andrew, and Tori, stayed outside and had a snowball fight in the woods. I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in quite a while. We all ganged up on Grandma, and then Uncle Jon, and then of course me. No pictures of the snowball fight (I’m not crazy enough to put my camera in that kind of danger!). What a fun afternoon playing in the snow!
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