SNOW TUBING!!!!

We drove up to Winterplace Ski Resort with some of our best friends on Friday night, spent the night, and took the kids tubing on Saturday. It was an easy drive and the kids loved being able to stay in the hotel and swim in the indoor pool.
We tubed for 4hrs on Saturday morning. When we started out at 8:30 it was a chilly 23 degrees. But, when we finished up around 1:15 it had warmed up to about 42 degrees. The kids had a blast and didn't want to leave.

Walter was quite the dare devil and left Mommy and Daddy behind while he drug his tube up the "magic carpet" on his own to tube. Ann Elizabeth was fearless and was tubing down on her stomach. She of course wanted to know when we were going to go back so that she could snow board. OH MY!!!
It was great fun and definitely something we will do again as a family!

Snow Days of 2011

So it is the first of January and it has already snowed twice. This is our 2nd snow. Even though we love it and love having everyone at our house to sled down our hill, it will be nice to get back to a regular schedule around here. Daddy was even home with us the whole time, and that was really special. We were out of school for 3 days for this one. Not just because of the snow, but more because of the ice. The kids even forgot that they had been back to school after Christmas. We will get more this winter I am sure, but lets hope it is on the weekend.
Oh....and nothing like a little duck tape to tape up your sled because your Daddy broke it!!























DONE!!