Snow Day!

It finally happened!  After days of hype and predictions of up to 15" of snow, we woke up to the phone ringing at 5:30 AM and a recorded message of Pam Keyes (the community relations coordinator for our school district) saying that schools would be closed today, Wednesday, January 18th.  When we crawled out of bed a few hours later, there was about 3" on the ground and it was still falling.  The flakes were pretty small, though, so it didn't accumulate much more, maybe about another inch.  If the flakes would have been bigger and fluffier, I bet we would have gotten the 15" they originally forecast.  But 4" is plenty for sledding!  Our good friends, the Wises, were very wise in their selection of a rental house this past fall and picked one right by the perfect sledding hill! The added bonus of 4WD pickups to carry us up the hill made for a perfect sledding day.  

Ozzie wasn't so sure he liked sledding.  He was more content to sit in the truck and give rides up the hill!

Isn't it a perfect hill?  Steep enough to be fast and fun, but not a straight shot to be too dangerous!

It was really hard to get good pictures of the kids sledding because they were going so fast!

Ben preferred spinning around on his way down, crazy kid!

Brad and Angelina

Jillian with Ben in front...can you tell it's him?  He's pretty bundled up!

Some of the sledders:  Jillian, Adrian, Andre, Angelina, Aubrey, Ben, Kylie & Izaac

Mariann and Me

Jill

A shot from the truck looking down the hill

We piled the truck pretty full!

Heading up for another run!

We sledded for about two hours with only one major crash.  Kylie, Aubrey and Ben were all on a sled together and crashed into a grounding wire on the side of the road.  Kylie was on the back of the sled and hit the wire, launching Ben into the ditch.  He hit his head and decided he'd had enough.  Kylie has some pretty good bruises and scratches on her face, but no serious injuries. After everyone was done sledding, we warmed up with hot cocoa at Mariann's house.  It's snowing more today, so we're heading over there again!