Snow

We decided to head up to Sequoia National Park (our next door neighbor) and play in the snow today. We went with Sean's co-worker, Eric and his wife, Jenny and their two boys. Poor Caelan had an ear ache the whole way up the mountain - she was miserable. Once we got there the playing distracted her a bit, and she ended up having a fun time. Ben was excited and gung-hu from the get go. He grabbed the sled and headed to a hill right by our parking spot so that he could get down to business. Megan was not so sure about the whole thing. Once she went down the big hill with Sean on the inner tube she changed her mind and kept talking about the "bumpy ride" (you can see on the picture that she was having a blast). Caelan enjoyed it as well. She took the first run down the big hill in the sled and totally took out a boy at the bottom (this kid flipped completely over - it was crazy). We decided we better save the slipperly sled for the smaller hills. Nathan was fairly good and content until he decided he had had enough cold and wet...at which point we pretty much packed it in and called it a day. And despite breaking my back as a Senior in High School from an inner-tubing accident, I too went down the hill several times. Watching people plow down the mountain at full speed with no control kind of made my stomach twist and turn when we first got there, but I pulled it together. We had a grand ole' time.