2016 New Year's Day Sledding

It's tough to get a sledding crew together, so I thought our New Year's Day gathering would be a great opportunity. We were going to spend the afternoon at Grandma and Grandpa's house with cousins - eating, playing games and SLEDDING.  The snow wasn't great, but the kids had a great time!

Here is the crew...getting ready to start making "lanes". with their sleds.  The hill in Grandma's backyard is just perfect for these guys!

 Alex trying to get down the hill on the snow scooter.  It was a little too powdery and kept sinking down into the snow.  It was difficult to get a good run on this sled.

 Alex and Lilly headed down the hill.

 And then Alex and Tyler giving it a run!

 These die hards were the last ones in. Here they are eating snow and making jumps to go over.

 After the snow day, we had a lovely soup and appetizers dinner and then....Cookie buffet!  This is one of the kids favorite desserts.  We just buy all kinds of cookies from the store and they pick and pair with ice cream - it doesn't get any easier than this!