It was the Young Men's turn to plan an activity this month and they decided to go sledding. The kids loved it. Although many of the kids ran into a bush they still enjoyed themselves. After watching the kids get hurt time after time I opted to not actually go sledding down the mountain. I know that I am not invincible and that I would probable have some freak accident like get the tube stuck in a tree or something. My kids went with me and all of them decided to go down the smaller of the hills. And even then Nichole got pretty beat up. But we all had a great time.
This was Ericka's second time down the hill. The first time she went down she went about 10 feet and her tube popped and she tumbles heat over feet 2 times before she stopped. Everyone made the ohhhhh sound and then started laughing.
As you can see there were bushes placed randomly on the hill. The one to the left is the one of the ones the kids kept running into. They would start at the top of the hill and somehow would veer right and take them into this tree. Cara is coming down the hill now. She will eventually hit the bush with her legs before coming to a stop. Angela and I would start yelling at the kids to bail and get off the tub about 1/2 way down the hill. Cara gave it a valiant effort but never quite made it off.
This is Sheryl. She is on the tube with her daughter. About 4 seconds after this picture was taken she narrowly missed the trees and instead crashed into one of the Young Men. Who then flew 3 feet into the air before landing right on top of her and her daughter. And she was just excited that she didn't hit the tree. (later her son said to her..."Mom are you going to go down the hill again." No was her reply. To which he said "You mean there aren't any other innocent kids you want to take out today".) When I heard him say that I just started busting a gut. It was so funny.
Here we have (from left to right) Cara (the one who hit a tree with her legs) River, Samantha, (who went down on the tube together and ended up crashing into the bushes right above them. They both hit there heads but recovered just fine), and Cecily (when we told her to bail instead of turning to the side and rolling out of her tube she went onto her knees and fell onto her chest before she stopped. At least she got off before she hit a tree.)
River just happy to be alive
Preston, Ericka, and Cecily who are sitting in the ditch that one of the boys slid right into. It was like a cartoon. He went over the ditch, his tube dropped out underneath him and slid down the ditch as he was suspended in air for about a half a second but it seemed like a long time and he then fell straight onto his rump popped back a few feet into the air and feel again. It looked like he jarred his back and it took him about 20 minutes before he could compose himself again.
Jeremy is the Young Men's President who I think is very brave and took his life into his own hands when he decided to go down the hill. He went on one of my sled's and said that it hurt his rump the whole way down. Still better then crashing into the bush
Sheryl and I with some of the girls waiting by the dreaded ditch
This was Ericka's second time down the hill. The first time she went down she went about 10 feet and her tube popped and she tumbles heat over feet 2 times before she stopped. Everyone made the ohhhhh sound and then started laughing.
As you can see there were bushes placed randomly on the hill. The one to the left is the one of the ones the kids kept running into. They would start at the top of the hill and somehow would veer right and take them into this tree. Cara is coming down the hill now. She will eventually hit the bush with her legs before coming to a stop. Angela and I would start yelling at the kids to bail and get off the tub about 1/2 way down the hill. Cara gave it a valiant effort but never quite made it off.
This is Sheryl. She is on the tube with her daughter. About 4 seconds after this picture was taken she narrowly missed the trees and instead crashed into one of the Young Men. Who then flew 3 feet into the air before landing right on top of her and her daughter. And she was just excited that she didn't hit the tree. (later her son said to her..."Mom are you going to go down the hill again." No was her reply. To which he said "You mean there aren't any other innocent kids you want to take out today".) When I heard him say that I just started busting a gut. It was so funny.
Here we have (from left to right) Cara (the one who hit a tree with her legs) River, Samantha, (who went down on the tube together and ended up crashing into the bushes right above them. They both hit there heads but recovered just fine), and Cecily (when we told her to bail instead of turning to the side and rolling out of her tube she went onto her knees and fell onto her chest before she stopped. At least she got off before she hit a tree.)
River just happy to be alive
Preston, Ericka, and Cecily who are sitting in the ditch that one of the boys slid right into. It was like a cartoon. He went over the ditch, his tube dropped out underneath him and slid down the ditch as he was suspended in air for about a half a second but it seemed like a long time and he then fell straight onto his rump popped back a few feet into the air and feel again. It looked like he jarred his back and it took him about 20 minutes before he could compose himself again.
Jeremy is the Young Men's President who I think is very brave and took his life into his own hands when he decided to go down the hill. He went on one of my sled's and said that it hurt his rump the whole way down. Still better then crashing into the bush
Sheryl and I with some of the girls waiting by the dreaded ditch
The Young Men and Young Women at the top of the hill. They really did have a great time together. So in total. We had 1 kid crash into a ditch, 2 people crash into another person, 3 people crash into a bush and 4 popped tubes (BTW we went up with 8). We are lucky there were no serious injuries.
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It's so nice to see pictures to go along with the stories! I think I might be glad that I stayed home :0)
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