Sledding, Tobogganing or Sleigh Riding????

When I was little my parents would take us up to Dunmore in the winter with the trusty wooden toboggan and we would go tobogganing.  It was one of my favorite things to do in the wintertime along with building snow forts in front of my house.  Moving here to Utah I don't often hear the term tobogganing .... I hear sledding so that is what I use with my boys.  However, whenever Brett refers to it he says let's go sleigh riding.  Sleigh riding???  Where are we going to get a horse from on such short notice??? lol.

We took the boys sledding (sleigh riding according to Brett) on the coldest afternoon of the week after Christmas.  We didn't know it would be the coldest afternoon of the week but there you have it.  We lasted all of 20 minutes with 2 sleds (because remember we only have 2 and all of the stores are sold out).  

The boys did a great job of sharing.

Of course there is always at least one kid who ends up crying and hurt because dad pushed him on a sled down the hill too fast resulting in a crash....

I thought I was smart enough to wear two layers of pants and two pairs of socks but the wind still made it through my coat and I found myself bribing my kids off the hill with promises of pizza and hot chocolate.  

Once Smiley made it to the top of the hill (no easy task as the hill was pretty slick) the kids eagerly ran to the car.  

They must have been as cold as I was.  And don't anyone say I should be used to the cold because I'm from Canada!!!!  My excuse is that I have poor circulation.   My sister would say it could stem from the poor genes from second cousins marrying second cousins way back in our family line.  That would explain a lot of other things too wouldn't it???

Well, sadly for the boys they are back to school on Monday and happily for me, they are back to school on Monday.