sledding fun

We took Bandit out on frozen Lake Winnebago to have a lot of room to run and play with his little plastic bowling ball. It was also opening day of sturgeon spearing, so the kids checked out all the huge sturgeon that were speared.

We took the kids sledding to Buttermilk hill in town. The kids like making jumps to jump off of. Melanie going down!
Tyler snowboarding down. He loves to snowboard, he can make it all the way down without falling. Now he is working on jumping off of jumps.

Here is a video (of Pete I hope showed up), It is hilarious, He thinks he is still young. He is young at heart. This is his second time going down off the jump. The first time I didn't get. The second I did, but missed some of the jump. You have to listen all the way to the end. He got the wind knocked out of him and he saw some stars in the sky.

Here is Tyler snowboarding down.

Snow much fun

Had a good snow on Dec. 28th, so we all went out and played in it. Then we wnet sledding at Buttermilk hill.

Christmas, part 2

The kids opening presents at Grandma and Grandpa Rytkonen's
The grandkids
Now, with grandma and papa!
Now, everyone is in the picture. Thanks to Lori since Pete couldn't figure out how to do our self timer in time. So, I just copied Loris picture off of her blog. (Maybe she can e mail me more?)

Christmas morning

Here the kids are with their Webkinz they got in their stocking!
Tyler got a power tour guitar, he loved it. PLus he got many other things!
Melanie got the sweatshirt she is wearing and a ds game, plus many other things.
Even Bandit made out like a Bandit on Christmas morning!

Baking cookies

Nana came down for our anual cookie baking. This year she didn't have to do much. The kids did most of it. Melanie's friend Paige was over helping and the girls had a fun time! Nana sat with Bandit looking at the cookies and supervised.

Merry Christmas

Here we are celebrating Christmas with the Hinderman clan!
Melanie, Nana, Ethan, Papa, Linzy and Tyler.
Here we have a picture of the prechildren/grandchildren family.
Our kids (Bandit included) with Nana and Papa.
We got nana and digital picture frame, she was surprised by that!
Afterwards Uncle Mark pulled the kids around his yard with sleds and his 4 wheeler. Bandit loved chasing them around!

Invated by dinosaurs

On December 15th Nana took Tyler, Pete, Ethan and Mark to see the show walking with dinosaurs. Tyler loved it, he said it was awesome! The show has life size animated dinosuars that put on and educational show.
Afterwards they all has to take a trip next door to the Packer pro shop.
Pete would have loved to spend more time and money there!