We spent the afternoon at Popcube’s house, sledding in his front yard. Not a huge hill, but a big step up from our neighbor’s gentle slope. :)

Eve, head first.

Me and Eve

Important discussions on the hill.

Lex

It’s hard to take good sledding pictures!

Lex and I moved to the bigger side of the hill!

Lovely sky

The hill looks pretty big from this perspective!

I thought this little guy was a rock at first. I bent over to pick it up and it scurried away. I screamed like a girl and jumped out of the way. Such a dumb automatic reaction! The little mouse (vole?) buried it’s head in the snow and probably prayed we’d go away! :)

After sledding we went in to warm up. The kids both took showers and we had dinner (homemade mac & cheese, my fav!!).

Eve read quietly while Grandpa Tom combed her hair.

On the way home we swung by La Salette to look at the lights. This year they have a beautiful display of nativity scenes in the chapel. I overheard someone there saying they were donated by an individual who had collected them over the years. There were hundreds, from all over the world. We spent a lot of time looking at them, though apparently I didn’t take any pictures of them! The lights were beautiful, as usual.