{sledding at stony creek}

Today we decided that we had had enough of the puny little hill in Clinton Township, and set our sights on the bigger, better and more bumpy, I might add, hills at Stony Creek Metropark.

We had a blast. Although, I was a bit scared at first. As we were standing at the top of our first hill, anticipating our first run, in the distance, I heard an ambulance. I looked around....and the person standing next to me informed me that someone bailed really hard going over one of the moguls, and needed some medical attention. Oh goody....and with that, Eric and Emily took off, with Paige and I following behind them. I was trying so hard to steer that I forgot to hold on to my sled, and I too, flew off my sled after hitting one of the moguls. My hat and ear muffs flew off my head. But, I did not need medical attention. Paige was fine, and ready to go again.

And because we are such awesome parents, we sent the girls down by themselves this time.


And this happened. Paige was COMPLETELY FINE. But she did do a complete flip off the sled. She was laughing as she got up. And asked to go again.


And becasuse we are so awesome, we said, "Sure. You need a re-do."
You see that blue thing right below their sled? It's the hat of a man who seriously got the wind knocked out of him after crashing into someone who bailed in the middle of the hill, and then having one of his sled passengers smack into him while going over one of those dang moguls. He was left gasping for breath when he reached the bottom...so yeah, maybe sending the girls down again was not such a good idea....


And then Paige bounced out of the sled AGAIN. Yep. We were done with this hill. Again, she was COMPLETELY FINE.


So them we tried some of the little hills by the parking lot....a little too close to the cars for my liking.


After Emily did her run, we got back in the car and went to the west side of the park to check out those sledding hills.




Trying to get a picture of these too while Eric is getting the sleds out of the car...impossible. But it makes me laugh.


Paige kept trying to get all the things that were sticking out of the snow as we walked anywhere. Yeah, that's not annoying at all.....and definitely not SLOW.


This hill was our favorite. Long, not too steep. But after you get all the way down, it's quite the trek to get back up. But we did it, about four times. We talked Paige into riding on the sled to go back up - much faster. Emily was not a fan of all the walking. And she really wasn't a fan of the snow spray from me trying to not crash into a tree. I thought she was ready to go home...but then we found another hill.
 

At this point, my jean covered legs were very wet and cold (note to self: buy snow pants next winter). So, I just took pictures.




 
After about three, "Just one more time"'s, we left for home.

Did you hear that we are supposed to get around 15 inches of snow on Wednesday? We haven't had that much now here, in a single storm, since I was one. CRAZY.

Stay tuned. We already have plans to go back to Stony ASAP!

{my girl}

loves to twirl.

Happy Saturday!

{okay...fine}

I'll post pictures from our sledding escapade a couple of weeks ago.

So, the story is this. we have had the same gray plastic sled since we moved here. last year, we bought two more sleds - one long two seater from Costco, and an inflatable one - from Target, I think.

Eric does not like inflatable things. So, all last winter, it stayed in the box. Every time we went sledding, it stayed home. And I watched tons of people with inflatable sleds having a blast.

This time, I BEGGED him to inflate it. And he did. And, just so you know, we fought over it.



Below is the Costco sled. Warped from Emily using it as a surfboard.


that's Emily wiping out. she was just fine. i guess warping is not good for sleds.


Paige liked the inflatable sled too.




And now I need to go out and find another sled. Eric broke the gray sled. That's him below, wiping out.






We did go sledding with some friends of ours. I just love this picture of Emily and her good buddy holding hands as their Dads pulled them back to the car.


Winter doesn't totally suck.

{winter blahs}

sorry for the lack of blog posts. it's not like we have been crazy busy. we haven't. it's not like we haven't been taking pictures. we have.

i am just suffering from a bad case of the winter blahs. it hasn't been real snowy here. just a lot of flurries. and that means a lot of gray skies. blah, blah, blah.

i don't feel like doing anything. and that means no excitement for blogging.

and since i have no idea if anyone is actually reading this....i guess it doesn't really matter. see - BLAH.

need some sunshine soon.

my kiddos are still cute though.







hopefully things will get better....soon.

{party}

Eric had a very lovely fortieth birthday. He did have to work, but his food and present needs were taken care of for the day.



Presents from the girls - i took the pictures, but they each colored their own background. They are already hung up in the office.


Gifts from my Mom.


He got lots of other stuff - science experiments, clothes, dart refills for the Nerf guns, beef jerkey and a trivia book about Detroit....Lord HELP me.

And then there was cake....yellow with chocolate frosting. His request.




Happy Birthday to the best 40 year old I know.

{40}

someone in this house is 40 today....and i'll bet he wishes this is what he could be doing right now.

{lazy monday}

chilling out this afternoon. yes, her jeans and shirt are too short. she has gone thru quite the growth spurt in the past month. everything that fit her a month ago is now WAY too short. i had to dig into her big sister's four year old clothing tub to find things for her to wear for the rest of this season. obviously, she picked out her outfit this morning.

(also - if you are interested in seeing our 2010 video, email me. i will not be posting it on this blog.)

{happy Saturday}

{happy monday}

making snow angels on Friday.

(her tooth is getting MUCH better, don't you think?)

[new year's eve}

the kids getting their grove on - Just Dance style. check out the littlest booty shaker in the front.....



Happy New Year!!! It was about 55 degrees at midnight. in Michigan. on New Years. what???


booty shaker passed out at 1am.


Happy 2011!!

{i wuv my girls}

{the day after}

wearing matching p.j.'s - thank you Auntie!!

{christmas 2010}

I should be so grateful - the girls woke us up at 8:19. Going to bed late does help a little bit....

They ripped thru their stocking in about three seconds.


Emily was SO EXCITED about her pink guitar.


Paige was excited about her Ice Breakers mints. really. she saw Emily open her from her stocking, so she quickly went thru her stocking to find hers. luckily for her, Santa KNEW she really wanted them.


She liked her Baby Alive as well.


we always have time for a little silliness.


Paige was a little bit behind Emily on opening her gifts. she was too busy being excited about her ice breakers. Emily at this point was all done, and Paige had most of her packages to go. she was pretty pumped about her Lalaloopsy doll.

After gifts there was a big breakfast - eggs, bacon and sausage, potatoes, fruit salad and of course, cranberry Christmas Tree muffins. Followed by, a few hours later, a big dinner at my Mom's house.

And just like that, Christmas was over.