Lake Tahoe Winter 2014

We kicked off 2014 with a focus on "family time" and a low-key trip to Lake Tahoe.  We stayed at the same house we have stayed at several times before, and planned to spend three days doing nothing but playing games, playing in the snow, and relaxing.  Unfortunately Mother Nature is not cooperating this year and there was pretty much zero snow in Tahoe despite it being January.  

At the park just outside of the house there was some ice though.  It looks like snow but it was ice, hard packed ice that was slippery enough to sled down but so hard you couldn't even make a snowball out of it.  The kids were bummed that our plans of building a snowman were dashed, but they were happy to sled.  

Clearly the hill they were sledding down was pretty small, so we weren't too worried about injury... famous last words!

 

After about a half hour of sledding on the first day, Emmie decided to head down the hill despite Logan being at the bottom.  She took him out at the knees and he fell face first into the ice.  This was definitely our worst injury to date - bloody nose, swollen lips, loose teeth, skinned chin and nose, bleeding gums, and lots of tears.  This is a pic of him about an hour after the incident when we finally got the bleeding to stop... 

And here he is the next day, feeling pretty pathetic still... 

I felt so bad for my little man!  He had trouble eating with his sore and loose teeth and it was hard to see him like that.  I will say though that he wanted to go back out sledding that same day, which we were surprised by.  He was VERY cautious on that little sledding hill for the rest of the trip, ordering everyone to be totally and completely out of the way before every sled run.

When we got back to town we took him to the dentist to make sure no major damage was done to his teeth.  Thankfully everything looked fine on the x-rays and he did great at his appointment (which was a first!).