Snow - Sledding - Rain

Friday night, on my way to bed, I looked out the window and saw the snow falling:

It was lovely, and quiet. Peaceful.



Woke up in the morning to this:

Before the sun could get all the way up however, it was swallowed by clouds! 

The kids were clamouring to go sledding and so we headed out to meet with friends. We walked for a good thirty minutes before we finally found the 'wee' hill Sylvie told us about! The walk might not have been bad, if the wind hadn't been blowing snow in our faces the whole way! And had the ways still been snowed and iced over (Sven got the fun job of pulling both kids on the one sled - we need a 2nd sled!). 

The snowfall was so bad, I even had to take off my glasses and walk blind as I could not get them clear enough to see! In all the pictures, you can see the snow falling and the water spots on the camera lens because it never stopped! Not once! And eventually, it turned to rain.

she kept losing her hat on the way down...



Ella & Dean going down on the bum sledges together!

Climbing back up the hill after sledding down - they always insisted on climbing back up the slope they slid down. We could not convince them to walk up along the side where the snow was less packed together!

Sylvie and Ella going down together.



Walking up the hill again...

a bum sledge tends to tip you over and send you rolling over and over. By the time you land, you just have to stop and collect yourself, even if it means lying flat in the snow...

She really likes to eat snow...so every time she face planted she licked the ground. Yum.
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Mouthful?

Sweet Sylvie let me slide down on one of their bum sledges. Which meant I got to climb up the hill too. And roll over. And face plant. It was great fun!

Sven caught me race right between the kids and Sylvie, you can control those things a little!

Threesome, getting ready to slide! The other kids showed up so much later, by then I had put the camera away (it was pretty wet) and was sledding myself. So That's why there are no pics of the boys!

Well, except for this one. They went down to rescue our Sled, which had been abandoned by one of the kids.

and I'll leave you with one more video...!