Sledding Fun

So we got home to a ton of snow. You know Jan . . . he had to do something with it. I know you have all been asking - so here is the sledding story from the beginning.

Jan and Will piled all of the snow from parts of the roof and the deck into a huge pile.

They then went to a construction site behind our house and explained to the framers what they were doing. They enthusiastically donated all of their leftover lumber towards the project. Jan and Will then came home and started to construct it in the garage.


Construction in the garage was fast. The problem came when trying to lift it over the fence into the back yard. They then fastened it to the roof line.


Starting to pile on snow on the jump.

The kids first trial run in the next door neighbors sled.


Will trying it out on a tube. The tube won over the sled. Much faster.

Claire going down by herself on a tube.

After Jan got tired of catching kids - they decided to build a landing ramp. Then after they kept running into the shed, Jan decided to build a backstop. (The guys didn't want to get splinters in the tubes. You can tell their priorities :)

The kids kept going over the backstop, so a bunny hill was in order to slow them down.

When we first started this project and there was no landing ramp, Kaile went down and hurt her neck a little, so she decided sledding off the roof was not for her. Then she tried it again today when our friends, the Hasvolds, were here to visit. Here is her reaction.

Lots has happened - great playing weekends - and only one trip to Urgent Care. I'll update again soon . . . .