Where There's Snow, We'll Go

Greg's graduation party was scheduled for Saturday afternoon.  But Dan had an idea.  We'll go to the snow so the kids can have some winter fun.  I'm sure we'll eventually get our fair share of snow, but we're breaking records for longest time between measurable snowfall down here... we were anxious to take the kids sledding.  So, we traveled up on Friday night so we could have all day Saturday to go sledding and do other things.  

When it was finally time to go sledding, we went to the hill near my former elementary school.  I remember having the occasional sledding day at school where everyone would come dressed in boots and snow pants and go sledding at some point throughout the day - big deal when you're in school.  

First up, Dan and Nora!

Aaaand, there they go!!

Then, me and Myles!

We're all at the bottom of the hill.
Nora is crying - she didn't like the snow flying up
in her face as they were coming down.  Myles is whining
because he didn't like it either. 

Then Dan convinced Myles (basically just took him since
he's littler) to go down on the cardboard because that's
much slower.  He didn't love it but didn't mind it either. 

Nora was intrigued.     

And despite her trepidation, she agreed to try it again.
She said she liked it better but still didn't want to
go down the hill again.  

We let Rusty off leash while we were there and he
loved every single minute.  He chased us down the hill
and went crazy dog.  If you click on this picture, it will
become bigger and you can see his big open mouth -
it's the most joy you can see on a dog's face.

Then Dan did some running with him - Rusty's favorite.

Even Gram took a turn down the hill.  She laughed the
entire way down and Rusty ran right along with her. 

Maybe next year the kiddos will enjoy sledding more.  But before then, we'll have to get new sleds because we cracked both of them on the first (and only) run down.  If it ever snows here this winter, maybe we'll buy them then and give sledding a go on the very small hill behind our fence to get them used to it.  That's more their size.  Fun memory regardless of how much they did or didn't like it.

Oh, and here's a picture of the graduate with his God-daughter at the party.

Congratulations, Greg!