Ice Skating Party

At our New Years' party, Haley looked up at us with those big blue eyes and said, "Are any of my friends coming?"... aww, poor bean.  So we decided it was time again to organize something fun with her friends from Windy Hill.  Haley picked an ice skating party, on Friday night after Windy Hill.  The rink on the town green is open to anyone, and has lights after 5 pm, so it was a perfect meeting spot.  Plus, it is conveniently located right across the street from two pizza joints, so dinner was solved too.

We sent out an email invite, and a lot of Haley's friends came.  I don't think very many of them had tried ice skating before (Haley certainly hadn't really), and they learned that it was much harder than it looks to balance and propel yourself on thin little steel blades, but also that it was just as much fun to slide on the ice in  your boots and whack a puck around with small hockey sticks.  One of Aiden's friends from Mrs. Knapp's class showed up unexpectedly too, so he was happy to skate around with him.  All in all it was a successful skating party, with pizza and ice cream to finish it off.

Over the weekend, we got in Haley's last swim lesson at UVAC (she's passed all the levels for 3 year olds), Aiden's guitar lesson, and a nice lunch at Yama.  Aiden got a new fish (a betta) and we even made it to Mt. Sunapee for a few hours of skiing and snowboarding on Sunday.  Aiden and Andy are trying to master the magic carpet on snowboards before they try the chairlifts, and Beany and I work on her snowplow turns and stopping on the smaller bunny hill.  It's a learning year on the mountain for us, I think.  No more summit rides for a bit, but we are still having fun.  Plus there are waffle huts at both Sunapee and Ragged this season... what more could we ask for than a crunchy, chewy belgian waffle hot off the iron and drizzled in dark chocolate after a day on the slopes.  Mmmm...

This is haley after every skiing adventure

Not sure what they are doing with all the sticks

Molly and Aiden on a hike