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Sledding Fun!

We finally got snow! And a lot of it - almost 20”! And since I had some time off of work I needed to take, I thought a fun day with the boys was in order.

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They were so tortured during the short trip to Costco prior to the sledding fun, but once we arrived they were nothing but grins! Speaking of Costco - we bought this sled there months ago when I saw them arrive in stock. We waited too long last time and the plastic sleds we bought didn’t survive a particularly rough group of kids last year.

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We clearly weren’t the only family that had the idea to go sledding today! It really was a great day for it! :)

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The boys definitely loved the new sled! It actually goes down the hill fairly straight instead of spinning them around like the round sleds did.

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Which isn’t to say that they didn’t get going a little sideways on some runs… ;)

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Look at the excitement! I am pretty sure he got a face full of snow of snow on several runs down, yet he was all grins!

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Though he did figure out a method for avoiding the snow in his face! Creative, but much more likely to run into others since he wasn’t attempting to steer at all…!

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No idea what he is doing here… ;)

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The two of them were having so much fun, but would not go down the hill together. It took me forever to try and talk them into it! I specifically bought them the long sled just for sharing, but they were not convinced. I took them both down on runs with me and that finally convinced them to try it together. But only if I got them on there and pushed them down the first time.

Which obviously meant I got no photos of the first run, but here they are excitedly running up the hill for another run together! Clearly momma was right!

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Although one of them looks more excited and one looks more terrified! And I am pretty sure they violated the 5 MPH speed limit sign. Ha!

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Oh no. Things are going awry… Maybe Thomas was right to look scared!!!

Annnnnnd crash! Haha - it looks so dramatic. They were fine and did many more runs down together.!

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Once all of us had frozen fingers, we decided to call it a day and go get some hot chocolate! What a fun sledding day and finally we had the beautiful Alaskan snow to enjoy. I was really starting to get worried we weren’t going to have a very white Christmas! ;)