Sledding at Mt. Rainier

On New Year's Eve we took the kids to Mt. Rainier National Park for some sledding with my sister Lisa's family. We took mostly video but here's a few pictures and there's a bunch of videos at the bottom. Jacob took a while to warm up to the idea of sledding but Kami loved it right away. She wanted to go again and again. The problem was lugging her and the tube back up the hill each time.

Kami tubing on the "little hill"

Jacob tubing

Katie going down the "big hill"

Jason

Justin

Ellie and Katie, last run of the day. The hill was a little harder and bumpier and it was getting dark. This video gives you a different viewpoint of the mountain.

Christmas

Here's a few pictures from Christmas morning.

This year we tossed all our wrapping paper into this corner and I sat and sorted everything that could be recycled and everything that couldn't. I had a nice neat pile of flattened cardboard boxes and smoothed out wrapping paper. It all fit nicely in my recycle bin and everything else went in the garbage. I was trying to avoid a big puffy garbage bag of wadded up wrapping paper and I did. This is the first year our trash can didn't overflow after Christmas. I think it was worth the extra effort.