Showing posts with label ice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice. Show all posts

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Ice Skating

January 31, 2015 - So, I'm kind of facing a dilemma with this blog.  On one hand, my family is taking more photos than ever before, so I could post pretty often, but averaged quality of the posts would decrease because so many posts would consist of cellphone quality photos and the ever repugnant, but increasingly prominent "selfie." 
So, I'll try to find a good recipe for a mixture of everyday life photos and event photos taken with the nice camera.  If you have a preference for one or the other and for the frequency of these posts - please leave a comment and let me know which kinds of posts you enjoy the most. 
(Or I could just look at the statistical data for each post and utilize my online marketing acumen to figure it out...
...nah, just leave a comment!)

Alright, Noah and I seem to have become the perennial social butterflies of the family.  So, this evening we attended the FCM annual family ice skate.  It worked out that Marscel was able to come along with us.


The beautiful ice rink at Shaw Park


It was a beautiful night for ice skating.
Granted, I'd use that phrase for any day that had a temperature under 60 degrees, but it was a "beautiful night" in the conventional sense.


This picture was taken by Melanie Thomas (who came later to skate) and stolen from the Thomas family blog...shhh...keep it a secret and she'll never find out...


Walking back to the car with Melanie and Marscel

Noah and I loved being able to catch up with friends and we had a blast ice skating!

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Ice Skating

January 8, 2015 - After such cold temperatures last week, Noah had the brilliant idea of checking the depth of the ice on a creek nearby...the result was some fantastic ice skating!


Noah drove us down to the creek on the four wheeler



So wonderfully rustic…we sat on the rocks to get our skates laced up



We had an enormous "rink" all to ourselves!


We could skate on almost all of the ice you see in this picture


Noah doing a hockey stop







Geared up for the chilly – but short – ride home

Friday, January 17, 2014

Ice Skating

January 17, 2014 – We went ice skating with our cousins at an indoor rink with their homeschooling group.

Kyden (our cousin in the yellow/black sock hat) is up

And he’s down…
…and he’s up…
This lady happens to be an old schoolmate of my Mom.
It was good to see you again!

Wow, you really CAN’T tell when I’m having a good time – can you?

At least you can tell that Jamin was having a great time!
Benjamin doing some forward crossovers

Learning how to skate backwards

He’s up…

…and he’s down.


Yeah, well, despite the lack of any outward expression…
I love to ice skate, and had a great time.

It was also great to go back to our cousins home and play a very competitive game of Monopoly!