Well, at the moment, Hubby (who stayed home sick from church) and all our little "chickies" (who have been to church and back already, and had to be reminded to change out of their church clothes BEFORE getting BACK on the sleds)are outside working on a luge (sled run) they built in the back yard.  I will post pics later, but let me try to draw this picture for you.  We are in the city limits, neighbors to the left of us, rear of us, and empty house to the right.  Our yard is a nice size, fenced in, I'm guessing maybe 120 feet long (I totally stink at estimates though).  The yard is kind of terraced with a short, maybe 3 foot slope in the middle....not really very exciting for sledding.  Well, several years ago, visiting our parents in CT, Hubby spent 4 days making this huge, beautiful sled run (luge) with jumps in it and banked turns and all.  So, of course, the kids realize that they really need a luge in order to sled in our yard.  And so it begins!  And don't laugh, cuz Hubby takes this VERY seriously!  He'll be out there even when the "sledding team" isn't out there, in order to build and perfect this thing! (In CT he actually convinced my Dad to use his tractor with a bucket on it to bring more snow over to the luge for him!  I have documented proof!)  The luge is finally reaching a fun, usable stage (these things take time to build ya know).  For a bit, the kids would start out and then just slide off the edges, so while they sled, Hubby is continually packing in snow and shaping.  And don't think there's a whole lot of snow out there, cuz really, there's not.  I think there's 4 or 5 inches that fell last week.  So other than the sled run itself, the yard is looking pretty skimpy on snow.  And you know, packing all this snow in one place, it's gonna last longer than the rest of the snow.  This is gonna be cool!  Maybe even sledding in t-shirts on the warmer days.  Now.....if we can only shake this stupid cold, or whatever it is so that we can actually invite friends over to enjoy this thing with us (miss ya, play day buddies!!)

So, when are YOU coming to give the luge a try??