The day after Christmas Mom, Dad and I headed over to the beautiful Pierce Estate for some good old fashioned sledding! It was SO cold outside but since we ended up sledding right down Miller Lane, we didn't have far to go to get warmed up! It was an absolute blast! The hill got slicker (and therefore faster) the more we went down it and since the road had been plowed, the walk back to the top was super easy! Sledding just doesn't get much better than this! By the way, I adore this picture of my dad on the new Zipfy shovel sled!
GOING FOR A NEW LAND SPEED RECORD . . . TESS W. GRISWALD!
okay, way too much national lampoon's christmas vacation!
the sledding scene is one of my favorite parts though!
the ZIPFY is a pretty SPIFFY sled!
in sweden they have shovel races where the riders actually sit in the shovels!
the zipfy sled is designed to be very similar to a snow shovel!
and now they have zipfy races!
none of us were very good drivers though so i doubt we'll be entering the races anytime soon!
but i does bring back some childhood memories!
dad used to pull laura and i around in his snow shovel!
the kids got new l.l. bean intertubes!
you just can go wrong with all that cushion!
especially when you get papa to haul you back up the hill in them!
what a cool grandpa, eh? especially when he started giving the older kids some
extra speed . . .
he would swing them around . . .
and then fling them down the hill!
and of course, they LOVED it!
claire and i going for another one of my land speed records!
the super cool new vertical/battery grip on my camera causes some accidental shots!
so i accidentally took this picture! but it does show that while we were having fun
the mechanic was busy working on the new snowplow! the twins, however, did take a break near the end of our sledding extravaganza to make a few runs down the hill themselves!
laura and danny decided to race!
look at prego's excellent form!
poor danny got smoked!
uncle matty and claire.
YEAH FOR SLEDDING!
1 comment:
Tess sweetie you did such a wonderful job of showing all our fun and all our love at Christmas and Christmas after sledding. Thank you. I love Christmas and everything that its about!
love mom
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