canadian winter fun

We woke up this morning to a beautiful, sunny (but COLD) day with a good 4 or 5 inches of new snow on the ground. We had plans to go shopping but couldn’t pass up this opportunity to go tobogganing. So we got dressed, (I so wish I had a snow suit like the kids) and headed over to the park (it’s so perfect to have this park right outside out front door).



Unfortunately neither child was prepared for, or enjoyed the blast of snow in their faces as they went down the big hill with CJ.

CJ and Seb at the top of the hill….


And on their way down….


So after a brief tobogganing stint, we headed back home. Away from the wind, though it was a lot of fun to play in the snow. We made snow angels, the kids went down the slide landing in a huge pile of snow…







We ended up having a lot of fun. I have to admit I enjoyed coming back inside to a cup of hot coffee (kids had hot cocoa). Afterwards we headed over to play it again sports and picked up some skates for CJ and me, and a pair of bob-skates for Seb. They are basically double blades that you strap onto his boots. I can't wait to try all these out tomorrow.