We Go Now, or Not at All

As I've said before,  this has been a brutal winter for doing things outside.  BRUTAL.  Now for all of you who like mild, non-snowy winters, this has been the winter for you.  For those of you who have children who love to play in the snow, go sledding and skating outside, this winter has sucked.

We finally got some snow this weekend, but because we were away at a hockey tournament, we didn't get the chance to take advantage of it (unless you call driving through blizzard-like conditions to a hockey arena 'taking advantage' of it!).

Because of this, I decided to take the kids straight from school to the toboggan hill yesterday.  Why such a rush you ask?  Well, we haven't been sledding yet this winter.  Yes, you heard right.  It was Jan 30, and we still had not gone sledding.

So we piled in the car with our sleds and snowpants and hit the hill.

Of course, Marin was exhausted so she fell asleep on the way to the hill - all 5 minutes of the drive!  So I put her in the sled, covered her with a big blanket and off we went:

 

 Aidan and Shannon tried to tandem - didn't work so well.

Aidan and Quinn had better luck (too bad I can't rotate the darn picture!)

 One of the funniest parts of the afternoon was when Shannon started using this little "Zippy" sled.  She was a wild-woman!!

Listen to the little rascal scream:

I'll tell you - I'm glad we went. Today was beautiful, sunny and 12 degrees (that's 53F for my American friends).  And yes, the snow is totally, and completely GONE.