Sledding

The past two Saturdays our family has ventured out into the white world and tried to have some fun in it.

The first Saturday was lovely. I even was able to get some good photos of the day.

Here is Jilli after the first wipe out of the day. She was actually loving the fact that she had wiped out.

Jona and his strong shadow

George and two cousins on the sled pushing off for another run down the hill.
McKenna smiling prettily for the camera.
The group at the top of the hill
George going down the hill backwards and loving it.
McKenna going down the hill. This is my favorite shot of the day.
With this running a close second.
Jona and Ty bundled up and watching all the fun.
And Jona going off of the jump that they affectionately dubbed "the butt buster"

This past Saturday did not go as well. We went to a different hill. Much steeper and with pavilions at the bottom. There was space in between the pavilions to go down but someone had made a huge jump there. And after dealing with "the butt buster" the week before the kids knew that they didn't want to go off of it.

We got there and Jona had no gloves. I had told him to find them just before we left. He couldn't find them and decided not to say anything instead of asking for help to find them. Thankfully we had an extra pair for him to wear.

McKenna went down in an area not between the the pavilions and ran into the pavilion. Thankfully she wasn't hurt. Then I went on a run and failed to see a relatively small bump/jump that I hit and went off. My tail bone was not happy with me. It's still complaining today.

Then George. Poor kid. He went down one of the middle runs. Not intending to go off the jump but he ended up flying off of it. I didn't see him come off of it but I heard his cries after he landed. He was screaming and writhing on the ground.

I ran over to him and he said that his back hurt. He was moving his legs thankfully. Ty came over and we got him to where he could walk over to one of the benches in the pavilion and sit down. His face was all sweaty and I could tell he was going into a bit of shock. He was hurt.

So we gathered up all the kids, loaded them back into the car and headed home. On the way home George said "Mom, you know when I was laying there screaming my head off?" and I told him that yes I remembered that. "I thought that I had broken my back."

Awwwww... poor kid. How scary must that have been for him? We got him home and in a warm tub. Gave him some Ibuprofin and he was able to feel better. He is still sore a bit but not complaining about it.

My tail bone on the other hand? It's still pretty tender. Sunday was an adventure trying to sit on the hard folding chairs in Primary and then the benches during sacrament meeting. Then at yoga last night we were instructed to do boat pose and I just had to laugh and sit on my mat. There was no way I was going to be able to do that! My butt was "just saying No" to the boat pose.
We won't be going back to that sledding hill anytime soon. The first one we will return too.

Freak we have too much Snow

I took this picture from my back step on Wednesday night. It had snowed most of the day Monday. And pretty much all of the day Tuesday. I know we got over a foot of snow. If you notice the swing set? The snow is halfway up the slide and that fence? It has four boards to it's height...not just two. The circle shaped snow towards the bottom of the picture is our fire pit thingy completely covered with the white stuff.


Thankfully it stopped snowing on Wednesday and started to warm up. Unfortunately for this garbage truck driver it was garbage day. The snow was still on the ground and snow plows have a difficult time clearing cul de sacs, as those who live on them can attest. I thought as he came up the street "I hope he doesn't get stuck." But then I thought "How can he get stuck he's such a large vehicle. I'm sure he has the wieght that he needs to plow through all this stuff." Boy was I wrong.

And of course I had to take videos to prove it.






I didn't get the shot of the chain breaking. They had this pickup truck using a chain to try and pull this huge dump truck out with a chain....and the chain broke. George saw it. He thought it was cool. Unfortunately I couldn't stay and find out if he got out because I was taking George to the Dr.'s.

As we came around the corner at the bottom of our street about 45 minutes later I could see that the truck had made it out of it's original spot that it was stuck in.

Now it was on the opposite side of the circle. Stuck again. And again I had to take a video of it.





Am I a bad person because I totally laughed at this poor drivers misfortune? It totally made my day. Can you tell that by the way I laugh in the videos? I'm just lucky I didn't get stuck in my own driveway. I totally had to gun in reverse to make it out to the plowed area of the street.

Yesterday it warmed up to almost 50 degrees so the snow was on the melt and the streets were more secure. Thank goodness. Too bad for the garbage truck driver that our garbage day was Wednesday and not Thursday. What a difference a day makes.

It's not a four letter word...yet

Wel,l it is actually is a four letter word but I'm still o.k. with the eight inches of s-n-o-w we got yesterday. And it's snowing again here this morning. We have the possibility of another four inches.

It took my husband three hours to make it home last night. His commute is usually 45 minutes to an hour. It was crazy.

I would normally stay home on a day like today but mom just called and needs a ride to the dr's this morning. So I'm bundling up and getting ready to head out.

Wish me luck!

Sledding

Today we took the kids to a fun place to go sledding. It's part of a golf course so it has some good hills. The snow was nice and slick so the runs were fast. We only have three sleds so we have to take turns but that was okay. Next year though we're going to have to invest in some new ones. The sleds we have are actually from T.'s childhood so they are kind of coming apart. The kids had a blast and it was a nice enough day that no one even got really cold. Here's the pics that I took. I'm frustrated with my camera though because the pictures were really pixelated. I don't know if that's because much of them were action pictures or if it was glare from the snow or what. They look okay small but larger they don't look very good at all. I'm hoping that if I print them it won't show the pixelation. Anyway. Here they are!