Sledding on Christmas Day!

Having a white Christmas is a rarity, but having a white Christmas with 2 ft. of powder is unheard of around here! We had to take advantage of the day and go sledding. We used tubes, but it's still sledding, right? Ryan spent a lot of time in the morning preparing the run. We used the path down to the creek at Mom and Dad's place. It was about 200ft long I'm guessing, and curved around a corner. After I went in with Wayne, the boys (I'd call them men, but trust me, they weren't acting like men out there!) built a ramp and were getting 5 ft. of air or so. Crazy! You may have noticed in previous pictures that Tyler's face was scratched. That's because he went off the jump and into the blackberry bushes. They then built a burm so that it didn't happen again. Crazy!

Tyler showing Wayne how to make a snow angel. I love that Tyler's just laying there with a big smile on his face!

Wayne's attempt.

Mom and Tara and Maddie were watching from the warmth of the house, so of course Tyler threw a snowball at them! Dad plowed the driveway with his tractor, and here is the mound he created with all the snow.

Wayne was so proud to carry snow.

We even got Mom, Tara and Aunt Carol to come out and sled for awhile!

Auntie Carol being silly.

Tara... On her first run, she was telling Todd "I don't want to go fast, just a nice leisurely ride." Todd told her fine, take this tube. But when I saw the tube he was handing her, I laughed to myself. It was the fastest one, and they had just sprayed it with brake fluid!!! Tara went down the hill SHREIKING, and Todd got a good laugh. Some things never change, do they?

Like I said before... it was magical. I had so much fun taking pictures and doing a few runs with Wayne. (Weston was napping in the house.) After an hour, Wayne was about ready to fall asleep standing up, so I took him in the house, stripped him down and changed his clothes, and he fell asleep as soon as he hit the pillow. It was his first time to ever play in the snow, and it was perfect.