The weekend before Thanksgiving, my friend Paige and I took our sons up to Estes Park, Colorado for a long weekend in a cabin.

We stayed at the same YMCA of the Rockies resort we had visited in August 2010. It was just much colder this time.

The cabin was very nice, with a wood fireplace and a bookcase full of boardgames and puzzles!

The highlight of our weekend had to be the sledding trip! We spent two hours at the Hidden Valley at Rocky Mountain National Park. The hill is a former ski hill and the most gentle part of the hill is a well-used sledding hill now.

We all had little round “Flexible Flyer” discs. I got my boys’ sleds for $5 each a couple weeks prior at Bed, Bath and Beyond. They were perfect for this hill!

Just at the smiles on these boys’ faces!