Winter Family Activities - Ice Skating & Snowboarding

Every time Ty comes home for his week off, we try to spend as much time together as a family as possible. This usually involves a family outing of some kind, usually something simple like the movies or shopping. The last few times we tried to do something a little more active, namely snowboarding & skating.

 In January, our local mountain finally got a huge dump of snow and when I looked on their website, and it said they had lessons & equipment rentals for 2-4 year olds. Perfect. So we loaded up the car with all our winter clothes and headed up the scary winding road.

But, unless your 2-4 year old child had freakishly large feet - I'm talking big kid size 2 & up, whereas my kids are still in toddler 7 & 9 - they didn't have any equipment to rent. Really disappointing & misleading.

So we improvised and had a snowball fight before heading back down the mountain.
We had promised the kids snowboarding, but since that wasn't going to happen, we decided to try out ice skating. Obviously, we were determined to let our children experience some sort of winter sport before the week was through.

Brynn & Tieran's First Time Ice-Skating

They absolutely loved it. The local rink had a parent & tot block of time that was perfect - no older kids on the ice zooming around or playing hockey to worry about. It took a few tries, but with daddy's help and those handy metal walkers, we didn't have any big falls.

Fast-forward to February & Ty's next trip home. While working up north, he had come across a snowboard shop that was having a huge end-of-season sale on it's equipment. So, of course he picked up a set for the kiddos to share.

B modelling their new Burton set-up

As luck would have it, we got a HUGE dump of snow a couple of days later. So instead of dragging the kids back up the mountain, we got them all dressed up to play in the snow & groomed a run right on the driveway.

Tieran was an absolute natural. He barely fell, had great form, and was already attempting jumps & spins by the end of the day - not bad for a 4 year old.



Brynn was hilarious. Since she just turned 3, she didn't really understand the concept of looking down the hill until the very end, but she loved it just the same.



Check out my Instagram feed for more photos & videos of our skating & snowboarding adventures.