Happy New Year

Sorry for not posting in a while. It has been a busy weekend and week so far, and it's only Wednesday. I hope you had a great celebration to ring in the new year. We started the weekend off by taking Jakson sledding. He was a trooper and we ended up going both Saturday and Sunday. We have a great sledding hill not far from our house (as you can see by the photo) and Jakson slowly got braver and braver with each run with the sled. We eventually ended up about a third of the way before all was said and done. I managed a run down from the top. It's about 80 to 100 yards top to bottom and if you can imagine someone my size on this tiny sled careening down a bumpy hill at bone breaking speeds, well you have the making of a potentially large flash of snow and limbs....but I made it, and with out injury! We finished up the sled runs with catching snowflakes on our tongues and eating snow. (Jakson loves this) He never wanted to be carried and trucked up the hill a good dozen times each day, not to mention playing on the playground equipment too.


We also promoted Jakson to the "big boy" bed. He was getting to cramped in the toddler bed we had. He does well in this size bed and has yet to fall out (knock on wood) and I think (or hope anyway) that we'll have less visits at 4 am with someone wanting to share our bed. He helped pick out the the bed and headboard and now he can use the cool "Cars" quilt he got for xmas. Notice the nice tongue for the camera? He gets that from Karla! (I was never like that)

We spent new year's eve at some friends house hanging out and playing the Wii. We even made it to midnight to ring in the new year. Tuesday we spent the day watching football and hanging out. Kinda nice. Today it's cold (minus 25 with the wind chill) so to anyone in warm weather - you might want to think twice before coming this way anytime soon.

Happy New Year!