Day Two

Today we woke up and enjoyed coffee, baked french toast and then got our snow gear on again. We all trudged up the "hill" and began to go down the other side for our sledding adventure. Greg began to make a path on the side to walk up and also built a blockade at the end to stop us because this path would continue all the way down the mountain if we didn't try to stop. The kids didn't want anything to do with sledding (glad we didn't pack up the car and head to the real sledding hill) so Jamie, Greg and I had a blast. Donna was in charge of keeping the baby safe of course. 

Here's the sleds before...

And after....OOOPS! Too much fun had by adults. We destroyed two sleds. Hit was too many rocks. Flipped over again and again. But had a GREAT time. I was ready to sled for another hour I was having so much fun. Since we couldn't sled, we decided to play some other games. At first the sled had a huge hole right in the middle from my butt hitting and rock, so we all put our faces in the hole and threw snowballs at each person seeing if we could hit them in the face. Once we all failed at that we decided to use the broken sled as a baseball bat. We threw snowballs and whacked them until they exploded. 

Then it was time for a break. Our lovely family, minus Quinn who was napping in the other side of the hill, way at the bottom, in the house all by himself. 

Anna's favorite part is eating the snow. "It takes like strawberry!"

Here's a view of our living area. 

And Anna and Jake relaxing before our afternoon adventure. 

We went into Boone this afternoon to explore. Of course we went to the Mast General Store and bought candy and apple butter. 

When we got home, Greg and Anna had some hot tub time. Look how cute she is! 

We had a delicious dinner of spaghetti and sausage with homemade sauce by Donna. After dinner, Anna and I make cookies for dessert and I said, "Anna, let me take a picture of you with your dessert", "Mom, take that picture out of my face." Guess I've taken too many pictures of her in the past two days. 

Now it's time for us adults to relax on these insanely comfortable leather couches, with the fire place on, beers in our hand, good friends to talk to, all kids asleep, making plans for tomorrow. Happy Sunday!