Sledding and skating and 3D movie-ing!

While I wade through a truly extraordinary number of Christmas photos, I'll tide you over with these.

What we did with a sled before Christmas morning . . . yes, Mailman Dan loaded these up for the kids to drag to the house.

And after Christmas, the more traditional use for a sled:

 These are some of the cutest people in the world.

 Elin was totally into sledding, although when she would go down the hill, she would keep her face down so she couldn't actually see where she was going.

The local sledding summit.
Laugh if you will; this is a pretty big hill for our area!

And then Svea got ice skates from Daddy.

It is hard to believe that these toothpick legs can actually support skating, but after a couple mornings out on the rink with Nate, Svea's skating was, um, passable!

More winter fun inside:  going with my main men to see the new Hobbit movie in 3D.  3D glasses have definitely improved.  I was expecting white cardboard frames with red and blue lenses; instead we got what looked like sunglasses.  Viggo lucked out, the kids got red frames and Nate and I were stuck with black.  Glasses fashion aside, the best part of the 3D experience was that all of the sudden I would notice wild arm movement next to me, and it was Viggo reaching for things that he thought were coming out of the screen!