This post and the next are a couple of weeks overdue, but I guess that's not too bad considering that Eli's Christmas thank-you notes are over a month overdue! (Sorry everyone, I promise they're coming!) Anyway, we had the pleasure of hosting our very first houseguests in our new home recently: our sister-in-law, Elizabeth, and our nephew, Lucas. 
They and Ryan's grandma were all in town for a long weekend to celebrate Ryan's dad's birthday, and we packed the weekend full of fun family events. The first day of their visit we headed to the Sno-Park at Snoqualmie Pass for some sledding. Eli is kind of funny about the snow; he gets really excited when it snows and wants to go out and play in it, but once you actually reach the fluffy white stuff, he's suddenly timid and wants to be carried instead of walking on it. Once I finally convinced him that it was really fun to walk on the snow he was good to go (but it's really funny that we go through this process each time it snows!). 
We headed up to the top of the sledding hill, and Lucas wasted no time in hopping on the sled and sliding down. 
After watching for a few minutes and realizing what a blast Lucas was having, Eli was ready to give it a try - with Mama, that is. So, we climbed onto the sled together, and off we went. 
Unfortunately we hit a small bump and suddenly we were tumbling off the side of the sled together. Neither of us was hurt at all (it's not a steep hill and we didn't go far), but it scared him enough that his sledding was pretty much done for the day! Awhile later we did get him to climb back on with me at the bottom of the hill, and Pa pulled us along a few feet. Eli seemed to enjoy this, but definitely the thing Eli enjoyed doing most at the hill was pulling the sled up to the top, giving it a push down (without anyone on it), and cheering, "go sled, go!" 
Poor Lucas thought this was a serious waste of a trip down the hill! Eli's other favorite part of our snow day was the heavy machinery (anyone shocked?). There was some sort of modified bulldozer (yes, belive it or not, there is a piece of heavy machinery that we don't know the proper name for) flattening and smoothing the snow nearby, and every few minutes Eli would look around for it. 
So, despite the early tumble, Eli had a fun day in the snow!
They and Ryan's grandma were all in town for a long weekend to celebrate Ryan's dad's birthday, and we packed the weekend full of fun family events. The first day of their visit we headed to the Sno-Park at Snoqualmie Pass for some sledding. Eli is kind of funny about the snow; he gets really excited when it snows and wants to go out and play in it, but once you actually reach the fluffy white stuff, he's suddenly timid and wants to be carried instead of walking on it. Once I finally convinced him that it was really fun to walk on the snow he was good to go (but it's really funny that we go through this process each time it snows!). We headed up to the top of the sledding hill, and Lucas wasted no time in hopping on the sled and sliding down. After watching for a few minutes and realizing what a blast Lucas was having, Eli was ready to give it a try - with Mama, that is. So, we climbed onto the sled together, and off we went. Unfortunately we hit a small bump and suddenly we were tumbling off the side of the sled together. Neither of us was hurt at all (it's not a steep hill and we didn't go far), but it scared him enough that his sledding was pretty much done for the day! Awhile later we did get him to climb back on with me at the bottom of the hill, and Pa pulled us along a few feet. Eli seemed to enjoy this, but definitely the thing Eli enjoyed doing most at the hill was pulling the sled up to the top, giving it a push down (without anyone on it), and cheering, "go sled, go!" Poor Lucas thought this was a serious waste of a trip down the hill! Eli's other favorite part of our snow day was the heavy machinery (anyone shocked?). There was some sort of modified bulldozer (yes, belive it or not, there is a piece of heavy machinery that we don't know the proper name for) flattening and smoothing the snow nearby, and every few minutes Eli would look around for it. So, despite the early tumble, Eli had a fun day in the snow!
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