The snow was deep and we were all getting restless being stuck in the house. So we decided to venture out and try our hands at sledding... even though the roads really weren't that great to be driving on. We piled into cars and set off. We found a nice hill and decided to drive to the top of it and park, rather than park at the base and hike up with the kids. The top of the hill took us through a neighborhood thick with untouched snow. My dad, seeing the top of our sledding hill at the base of a street, got excited for an adventure and without thinking, drove down a steep street straight into the deep snow of a cul-de-sac, getting his little Chevy Malibu stuck. My sister-in-law Kristine was laughing her head off, seeing the humor in it. I was scowling because I was certain we'd be stuck in Forest Grove until Spring and Jesse was getting pelted in the face with snow as the tires spun out as he was trying to push on the car to get it out. Luckily for my Dad, he thinks that little Mali is a 4-wheel drive or something, because he gassed that poor car until the chains broke off the tires. But he kept on pushing the pedal to the metal it and finally got it out of what I was certain would be it's snowy grave. Never a dull moment with my family!
We finally got going with sledding, but the girls quickly realized this business was cold! They screamed and weeped and wailed. It only took a few turns down of getting sprayed in the face with snow and it going down shirts and up pant legs for them to realize they were done. Maryn through tears at one point cried "I just HATE this winter!" So I put them back in the car where their cousin Kade was looking at them like "Holy cow, what is going on with these crazy women!"
Ahh, it just wouldn't be a family vacation without the kids throwing out some sort of joy-sucking antics, don't you think? I still had fun in the short time we had. Justin stayed out a bit longer with Steve, Kristine and Cole after Mom and I took the little animals home and had a good time.
I'm pretty sure like most things though, when the kids look back they won't remember all the bad. They'll remember the fun little moments of adventure in between!
The snow was deep and we were all getting restless being stuck in the house. So we decided to venture out and try our hands at sledding... even though the roads really weren't that great to be driving on. We piled into cars and set off. We found a nice hill and decided to drive to the top of it and park, rather than park at the base and hike up with the kids. The top of the hill took us through a neighborhood thick with untouched snow. My dad, seeing the top of our sledding hill at the base of a street, got excited for an adventure and without thinking, drove down a steep street straight into the deep snow of a cul-de-sac, getting his little Chevy Malibu stuck. My sister-in-law Kristine was laughing her head off, seeing the humor in it. I was scowling because I was certain we'd be stuck in Forest Grove until Spring and Jesse was getting pelted in the face with snow as the tires spun out as he was trying to push on the car to get it out. Luckily for my Dad, he thinks that little Mali is a 4-wheel drive or something, because he gassed that poor car until the chains broke off the tires. But he kept on pushing the pedal to the metal it and finally got it out of what I was certain would be it's snowy grave. Never a dull moment with my family!
We finally got going with sledding, but the girls quickly realized this business was cold! They screamed and weeped and wailed. It only took a few turns down of getting sprayed in the face with snow and it going down shirts and up pant legs for them to realize they were done. Maryn through tears at one point cried "I just HATE this winter!" So I put them back in the car where their cousin Kade was looking at them like "Holy cow, what is going on with these crazy women!" 
Ahh, it just wouldn't be a family vacation without the kids throwing out some sort of joy-sucking antics, don't you think? I still had fun in the short time we had. Justin stayed out a bit longer with Steve, Kristine and Cole after Mom and I took the little animals home and had a good time.
I'm pretty sure like most things though, when the kids look back they won't remember all the bad. They'll remember the fun little moments of adventure in between!
3 comments:
That is so funny cause most of the time I couldn't get my kids out of the snow.
What a group. I have to agree that sledding with jeans and shoes is not fun. Sounds like you all will have quite the stories to recall around the dinner table later on. How fun.
Hehehe. I'm with Maryn I just hate this winter. I do however, need to suck it up and take my kids sledding. They may enjoy it, for 30 seconds.
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