to the sledding hill

Friday we celebrated our day off school with a morning trip to the gym for basketball and swimming and then an afternoon hosting Matt's aunt and uncle.  Such a treat to have them visit us here and I just loved watching my kids animatedly telling Aunt Bev all kinds of Asia stories - and hearing some of her own international travel adventures.

Then Saturday we woke up to plenty of snow and perfect temperatures for sledding!  It was gorgeous!

Luke was in his snow gear by 9am!  ha! He's getting more adept at getting all his stuff on, and when I asked him what his kindergarten teacher does with 12 little ones needing gloves he very seriously told me, "Mom, she's been teaching a long time.  She only does one glove."

Side note: it's not the only thing his teacher is doing that's working... my little Luke is rocking kindergarten and the big sibs are holding their own in their classes too - such an encouraging night for Matt and I at parent teacher conferences last Thursday.

So we played in our own backyard and worked on a snow fort and freshened up our snow man and then headed for the sledding hill.

That's Matt, John Paul, and Isaac on the big sled.

We invited our neighbors to go along, and then of the fifteen or so other people at the sledding hill, we knew some of them too - small town love!  Lydia and Isaac joined in and helped build a jump at the bottom of one route and everyone just huffed up the hill and slid back down over and over and over again.

It was so pleasant out and even with a few dramatic face plant landings we stayed out there for almost two hours!

I love weekends even more with the kids in school!  The time together is so precious and it was especially fun to wake up to all that snow.  Now it's Sunday afternoon and another week on the horizon...