Sledding fun

On Saturday, we hauled out our hand-me-down sleds and found a great hill on the base to have some fun.  Leavenworth is probably one of the hillier towns in Kansas (unlike Wichita, which has pretty much one manmade hill that everyone sleds on) so we had this whole area to ourselves.  Dan and Ben had fun for about 10 trips down the hill and then they got cold and tired.  I'm not quite sure why they were tired since Zach and I carried the sleds and them up the hill each time.  Dan especially does not like being cold.  Maybe that's a product of being born in Hawaii? In this video, Ben does take a bit of a header, but he was fine, so don't worry too much.  If you listen closely, you can hear Dan giggling when Ben eats it at the bottom of the hill!

Snow day!

Yesterday was a snow day!  The snow was supposed to start in the middle of the night on Wednesday night, but it didn't actually begin until about 7:30 Thursday morning.  But it didn't disappoint--I think we got like four inches in the first couple of hours.  Then it snowed off and on all day and we got around 10 inches altogether.  Zach found out on Wednesday that his school was cancelled for Thursday so we were prepared to hunker down and ride out the snow.

Zach was especially excited to build a pillow fort for the boys.  I think he had high expectations that it would entertain them for hours, but they were only interested for about 15 minutes.  But it was really fun for those 15 minutes!  We also made cookies, played outside in the afternoon, and built a really sweet railroad track on the floor.  All in all, it was a great day to just stay inside and relax while the world turned white around us.

(And since we found out that we're moving to San Diego this summer, being stuck inside for one snow day didn't seem so bad!)

Monster Trucks!

I had the opportunity for a kids-free trip to Florida this weekend so I jumped on the chance to get away!  Zach's mom flew in on Thursday, just a few hours before I flew out and we are so grateful for her help.  The boys had a great time with Granny, showing her their favorite playgrounds, visiting Science City, and watching their first monster truck rally.  I'm still kind of in shock that Zach took the camera and actually used it, but I'm glad I got to see how the boys enjoyed their adventure.  Thank goodness they took ear protection for the boys because it would have been unbearably loud otherwise.  Ben still managed to fall asleep somehow so Granny and Daddy must have really worn him out.