Winter Fun

It's been a long, cold winter. And there is still a lot of winter left to go!

Last week, we bought Layla some wonderful new skates! She is was so excited! She has been patiently waiting for new skates since she grew out of her smaller set almost two years ago!

So after we picked her up from school, we headed straight over to the free public skating at the arena!

Layla and I were both pretty rusty and it took us a few laps to try to regain some confidence on the ice. I was blown away by Daniel though, he is very skilled on ice skates!

Here is a picture of Layla and Daniel ready to race across the rink!

It is so nice to find ways to have some fun during a long winter and break up the regular routine! It is also so nice when we find things we can all enjoy together! (as we found out that Daniel is not a fan of family swim time!)

Daniel and I are also excited for some more winter fun tomorrow. Layla will be with her dad, but we're going skiing/snowboarding with the Church YM/YW tomorrow night!

Daniel is a snowboarder, and I am a skier. But we both love hitting the slopes, so it should be a great time! We've only been once before together. We went to a little hill just out of town a couple of weekends ago with my Aunt and cousin. My cousin Teigan wanted snowboarding lessons from Daniel, but it ended up that she had already grown out of her snowboarding boots! So Dan just snowboarded by himself most of the day.

Tomorrow, however, he will be in good company as most of the Young Men and some of their leaders are boarders!

Here is Daniel: conquering the hill!