January has brought very little snow, which changed our weekend plans from snowboarding to mountain biking. We drove 2 1/2 hours for a little warm weather and fun trails to ride. It's been several months since the kids have been on their bikes and when they finally mounted up they couldn't get enough. We enjoyed 3+ hours of riding with NO whining, NO crying, NO fighting, and NO "I wanna go homes"....etc. It was awesome. They both have improved so much and are proving to be a little more daring this year :-)

We started out the adventure a little overdressed. Guess we aren't use to 50 degree weather in January. These trails have fun antique engines, farm equipment or something around each corner for the kids to investigate.

Tob explaining to the kids where he believes the steering wheel should be.

There are a lot of fun bridges and jumps a long the way for both kids and adults to improve their skills. This one Nojah crashed on the first time but tried again and waa laa, no problems.

The boys went ahead and Lex was drawn to the old culvert pipe. I am just glad she was able to play without slicing herself open on the sharp edges. I noticed before we arrived at the trails that we had no first aid kit. I thought that may be disastrous, but as it turns out Tob and I were the only ones bleeding at the end of the day and we were ok without bandaids.

Another cool bridge for the adults to ride over and the kids to run over. Nojah tried to ride it, but without success, this time.

Most importantly: We were all still smiling at the end of the day and we all had fun! Next was a special trip to McDonald's for the kids on the way home, which was an added bonus in their book! We are thinking if the weather keeps up the way it does we may go camping this winter instead of participating in winter sports. I wonder if this means it will start snowing in March??