Finally, SUN!

The sun finally came out today. As I said in my last post I was bound and determined to get OUT in the sun for a bit. So, even though it was 20 degrees, we all bundled up and went outside for some much needed SUN! The snow was ice crusted with just a few inches of powder on top which made it excellent for sledding. My 3 yr old decided to take her swim tube and slide down the little hill with it. She tried various hills until she found the one that was just p e r f e c t. Here she is scoping out the lay of the land.

She found her hill! Look at her go! She loved this new found sled.
Meanwhile my other two decided to dig a tunnel. My 6yr old was so into it she knocked her hat off and did not even stop to put it back on. Cold? Nah. Not when you are 6 and sweating from straining to dig this massive tunnel her brother started.
Here they both are in front of their tunnel. My son is completely blocking it.
Below you can see my son in the tunnel. This was such fun for them. I remember doing the same when I was little. (Actually I was much much worse and would scope out the terrain to see if their were any roofs that I could climb up on and slide down. Yes, I was crazy, but in my defense I only had male cousins who were always coming up with one crazy thing or another.)

Below is a picture of my driveway. It is a lane really in which my house is all the way at the top of. My car will NOT make it up this hill and I have went through 2 sets of cables trying to make it to the house. Now I have officially given up and we walk from the bottom. You cannot see the bottom of the lane where my car is in this picture but the general area is if you look at the yellowish house and see those tree's beyond it at the bottom of the hill , that is where the end of our lane is. My car is just up from those tree's. That means I am definitely getting my exercise hiking up and down this lovely lane with all my children in tow. Now you know why I rarely leave the house when we have a bunch of snow. For my friend Melissa, this is the hill my oldest hikes up and down to get to the bus. Show it to your kids when they start to complain. :) I can just hear my kids now when they are older telling their children, "I used to have to walk half a mile to get to the bus and it was all uphill both ways!" :)