What does one do when one gets new sleds and snow for Christmas and Christmas is on a Sunday? One goes sledding the next day of course! We got a total of about 18" in about 24 hours on Christmas. The day after Christmas we loaded the sleds and the kids in the van and headed out to go sledding. We drove around to find the perfect area, but we were shut down at the Salt Hollow park due to the parking lot being full of snow. The Millville Elementary hill was too small. The kids were getting anxious and wanting to sled so I called a friend and asked him where the park was that had the big bowl. He told me where and we were off. We got there and it was a lot of fun.
The park we went to was the Cliffside Park. There were sledding hills everywhere! Even though there were a lot of people there was still a lot of room to sled. The kids got new sleds from the Stewart family and they were excited to try them out. We tried a small hill at first to get them warmed up and then moved on to steeper and longer areas of the bowl.
There was so much snow that it came up to Colby and Logan's knees in some areas. We had to blaze our own sledding paths through the thick powder but that made it all the more fun. We all had a blast. These kids have no fear either, they just jumped on their sleds and went down.
Logan wrecked pretty good on his sled when we first arrived. He was riding down head first when he ran straight into a powdery snow mount at the bottom of the hill. He went face first into the snow and because he was wearing sunglasses, the snow just caked under his glasses and he couldn't see. We was yelling and, being the great parents we are, we just told him to get up and brush himself off. Then when I went down to help him, I realized his whole face was just caked in snow. We felt bad... But no injuries other than a brain freeze!
We probably went down those hills over a hundred times. It never got old. The more packed the snow got, the faster we slid down the hill. Below is an awesome time lapse group of pictures Tiffany took as all of the kids and I went down the hill at the same time. As you can see there was a little collision... First Emily biffs it in the snow, then Colby and Logan run over her and carry her the rest of the way down the hill, and then here I come to finish the job off and run into all of them. It was so funny but don't worry, no one got hurt in the process.
We couldn't leave Charlotte out. She had her first ride on a sled with Tiffany. Strapped into her baby carrier, she rode down the hill with Mom and crashed at the bottom too. And as typical to Charlotte's style, she slept through the whole thing! She startled a little when a little bit of snow splashed onto her face at the bottom. Oh well it was fun anyway.
After sledding on the littler hill for a while, we moved over to a steeper hill. The first time Emily and Colby went down it, they came back up saying this was a much faster hill than the other one. We played around for about 2 hours before we realized Charlotte was getting cold cheeks and Logan's arms were pretty much frozen where his coat and gloves didn't cover. (We got him a new coat the next day.) We decided to call it a day and head back home and warm up with some hot chocolate. What a fun day.
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