Sledding!!

The perk to having some crazy snowstorms this winter is that there were some awesome sledding opportunities. The kids went sledding a lot! (And it's nice to have a little hill in the backyard so we don't actually have to go anywhere)

 We got SO much snow during this storm!! It was gorgeous.

 Will and Kate seemed to end up in a heap at the bottom of the hill when they'd ride together.

 Daddy helped them make a tall and skinny snowman.

 (William helped too)

 Unfortunately with all that heavy snow we lost a lot of branches. This was one a tragedy for us....it was one of the "shaders" for our deck.

 On Christmas Eve we decided to do a little bit bigger sledding so we went up to hidden hollow in Kaysville. It was a great place to sled and we had a lot of fun!

 Kate preferred "penguin style."

 "Eat some powder, Will"

 We got a little snowboard that we've never tried out before so this was the maiden voyage to see how they liked it. They all did really well! I was so impressed by their mad snowboarding skills. (Now we just need to get them to try the wakeboard)

 Will learned his lesson from last time and is now taking precautions against daddy's dust.

 Josh attempted to go off a jump on the snowboard.....

 Kate even tried it!

 She even got the hang of it!

 Rach was the first one to try it and she also did awesome!

 I really love this picture for some reason. Even though you can't see either of their faces I just love those little hands reaching for daddy. My kids totally lucked out to have this dad of theirs.

 And one last one for the road......nice jump Trav!

 

Since we weren't able to go to the cabin after Christmas like we always do (because it flooded) we decided we still needed to go sledding. So, we brought all the Schick's to happy hollow. It was fun being there with cousins.

 There is a small stream at the bottom of the hill and if you don't bail out...you end up in the stream. We hadn't had an incident until the whole family was there. Breydon was the first victim.

 Trav was a very close second...

 Somebody wasn't having the time of his life....

 At least he knows how to travel in style!

Not quite the same as cabin sledding....but we still had a good time.