We FINALLY made it up to the snow. The girls were so excited, even with the 2 inches of snow they had to play with. Our friends live in the foothills and invited us to come up there and sled down their hill in their back yard. It has been so cold up here that it is very common for snow to fall even at 1000 ft level.
As soon as we pulled up, the girls ran out and started making snow angels. They wanted to make a snowman but we told them next time because the snow was more ice and not as powdery making it much more difficult to make a snowman.
After playing in a field of flat snow, our friends' kids told us to go to the backyard. We walked back there, Delilah watched two older kids do the hill... she walked over, picked up a sled and walked on up the hill. Before I could even get the camera set to video, she was down the hill with no fear and just a smile on her face!!
Mikayla went and tried it and had a blast too. Then, Delilah wanted to try the "turbo" sled that the older son kept saying that it was too fast. Delilah didn't care. She did and ran straight into a fence. Oh yeah - she hit the fence but she got off and wanted to do it again. No tears, no crying. Mikayla did it with me the first time and loved it but then wanted to do it with Delilah. Well, for some reason, when they hit the fence, they flew off! Mikayla popped her lip and it just bled a quick sec but it was enough for her not to want to go on the "turbo" sled anymore.
We finally put Caitlin in the snow. She LOVED it! She just sat there and even took her mittens off so she could feel the ice. Of course, I didn't get her smiling as she was too intrigued in the feel of the ice but she probably would have stayed on the snow for a very long time. However, with sleds coming down the hill, we picked her right back up and she just laughed as her sisters screamed sliding down the hill.
It started getting dark since we got up there a little late in the afternoon, so we called it quits after the girls tried hitting us with snow balls up on the deck! But it was perfect amount of time for their first experience.
It is raining today and is supposed to continue raining till the day after Christmas so there will be lots of new snow. We will definitely be going back up!!! But, as a parent, I NOW understand why ski resorts are so special if they have the moving sidewalk up the sledding hill. After three or four times going up even a smaller hill, Mikayla was wanting help carrying the sled up each time thereafter.
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