Project 52 - Snow Fun - Week 51

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We have a house with a second story deck and a partial flat roof which means that, after a heavy snow fall, we have to get up on the roof and shovel it off. And when I say "we", I mean Jesse. We thought we could get away with not doing this until one year, when in the middle of the night, we had a drip coming in through our window. Jesse got on the roof at 3:00 am and, after shoveling it off, the dripping went away. We want to avoid visits to our roof in the middle of the night so we make sure to take care of it right away.

A couple weeks ago, I was shoveling the front sidewalk and Riley was playing in the snow when she almost got hit with a pile of snow that came flying off Jesse's shovel from the deck. Turns out she loved getting nailed by snow. She was extra excited when she got to experience this again a week later and I was sure to capture it on camera.

   

 

 

 

 

Before we went in, we stopped and caught snowflakes on our tongues... and later I had some fun adding a bokeh overlay to one of the pictures.

 

But snow fun wasn't over that day. We warmed up and dried off and then headed out to a local sledding hill. Also notable is how much more confident Riley has become in the sledding department. We still went down with her a couple times, but it wasn't because she needed us, but because she wanted us to have fun with her.

   

 

 

I would not recommend face forward. It did not end well when I attempted it. :)

 

Backwards!

And that was that. At least for that day. Riley's been sledding three times this winter which probably equals all the times she's ever been sledding prior to this year. The winter is far from over so I'm sure we'll be back again.

Project 52 - Winter Fun - Week 5

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Riley was recently invited to her friend, Mason's birthday party. It was a Star Wars themed, sledding party at the park we had Riley's party at last year. We planned to drop her off and walk to a nearby coffee shop to read our books, but our girl was hesitant to sled by herself at first. Eventually, she worked up the courage to go on her own and by that time it was fun to stay and watch her whip down the hill. The snow was a little icy which aided the sleds in sailing fast... and led them practically into the frozen pond at the bottom of the hill.

 It was fun... for us all, really. Makes me wish we had three sleds instead of one. The day after I took these, the snow pretty much all melted, but we just had a big snow and winter is far from over so I imagine we'll be back sledding again soon.

Sledding - finally!

We've tried to get Riley to go sledding in the past, but her few times being pulled on the sidewalk convinced her she didn't want anything to do with this unstable activity. However, today she totally agreed to it. I'm sure it helped that we actually sat on the sled with her, but she was still pretty excited about it.

Riley wanted to go down that hill again and again (Jesse and I took turns going down the hill with her). I can't tell you the last time I went sledding so I have to say this was super fun for me too - except for trudging up that hill over and over. Talk about a workout, but so worth it. And Riley has already asked when we can do it again. Thank you winter for giving us this nicer day to do something fun outside.