Winter fun...

We went sledding! Well, for me it was a totally new experience. "Sledding" on Mt Hood involves going to a ski park, paying a crazy amount of money to rent a tube for an hour, and going down pre-grooved runs in a tube. For me this seems so odd! I remember walking over to the old sledding hill a few blocks from our house growing up, and dodging other kids on the hill while you went down in a plastic circle sled....for FREE! Of course we also walked to and from school 5 miles uphill both ways back in my day...

Back to our sledding trip....

Avery was SOOOOO excited to see the snow!! We haven't had any this year in Portland. Here she is in her (mercedes) tube...


Collin was less interested in the snow than I expected. He was crabby and hungry, and while he did eat some snow, he was just bummed that it didn't taste like hamburgers...

We made the trip up to the mountain with our friends Grant and Darcy and their 2 girls. Hazel and Avery were both super brave sledders. I was a little worried that they would be scared. But they both had so much fun!

Collin also got the chance to go down once. It was a pretty fast hill, so I was a little nervous, but Jon said he had fun too...

Here's a picture of Avery and Jon going down the hill. Jon had to go down with her to slow down the tube by dragging his feet behind. Even with him dragging, it was really fast. They would hit bumps and fly up in the air a bit. Avery could have done this for days...but it took longer to get up to the mountain than we expected, so we quit after 6 or 7 times down the hill and went to have a nice lunch with our friends.

A family picture by the mountain...

After all that cold weather fun, we needed a summer dinner. We had burgers and fries for dinner...followed by Ice Cream Cones! Collin was so excited!

One of the few perks of being the 2nd child.... I'm pretty sure Avery's first ice cream cone was sometime after turning 2!