President's Day

We went SLEDDING! 

and it was so fun :) It was beautiful 50 degrees the saturday before, then it snowed all day Sunday, so we had a quite a few inches of fluffy snow to play in on Monday. 

 We went up to big springs park up the canyon. we were sure all the local hills would have been sledded on already so we thought heading up the canyon would give us some fresh snow.

 Auntie Megan pulled Lucy up the trail in the sled...THANK YOU! She was getting too heavy to carry all that way :)

 We found a good hill on the side of the trail...here is Megan trying it out for the first time!

 We discovered there was quite a jump at the bottom so we tried to fill it up with some snow.

 Here is Elaine testing our work...guess there was still a bit of a fall :)

 Here is Lucy and I trying it out! I was probably as nervous as she was! It looked really high up when we got up there! Elaine held the sled for us-- I don't know that I could've gotten Lucy on my lap fast enough if she hadn't held it! We started sliding down pretty quick.

 Devin going down with the Megan and Elaine

 Now it's Cole's turn! Camille was kind enough to carry up the sled for them :)

(Megan in the bottom of the pic, today was her sweet 16th!)

 Here is Oma going down! I had to add this picture, cause after this she did a full 180 degree turn on her sled with her sled still facing forward! It was amazing, and very fun to watch! :)

Lucy went down a few times until she got a face full of snow! Poor thing, she wouldn't even go down with Devin after that. Then Cole got his own face full, so the kids were done and were content to just watch everyone else. 

It was so fun!

 There was a creek right by the trail. Everytime someone went over the hill on the other side of the trail Lucy would yell, "yoot out, dere's a river!" It was cute, she was pretty worried that someone was going to fall in. Here are a couple of pics of the frozen river....it was GORGEOUS!

 I love the way the icicles formed big drops on the bottom!

 Here's the river/creek....it's not really big enough to be called a river :)

That is how we spent our morning on President's Day!