Ice skating on the pond

Yesterday afternoon Eric and I took some friends of ours, Nate & Janelle, to go ice skating on his parents' pond. We had fun playing hockey, pretending to be world-class figure skaters, and chasing the two dogs around (Gideon and Heidi-the Martin's dog). Gideon would chase the puck around forever, every now and then getting ahold of one and sprinting (well, slipping and sliding) off the ice and tearing around the pond where no one could catch him because most of us had skates on. Our niece, Tirza even came and got to ride around on the sled her daddy made with skis on the bottom. No one fell in (except Gideon a few times around the edges). He was soaking wet but didn't seem to mind the frigid water. These times make the winter months a lot of fun around here in PA. I told Eric the other day that I am so glad we live in a place that has four different seasons. I love the variety of the changing outside activities. Hopefully we soon get some more snow because I have yet to make a snowman or snow angels!