A MUCH DELAYED SNOW TRIP!

So last year in December it was snowing a lot up north and the kids wanted to go play in the snow so Santa was nice enough and brought Eli two sleds, only problem, after Christmas it didn't really snow much so we never had a chance to use them. Fast forward to now and we are lucky enough there is a lot of good snow up north and during Christmas break while Jared was off so we decided to finally take advantage of it and headed up to Caryn and Cade's house to stay the night and play in the snow. Then we decided to stay 2 nights and spend New Years Eve with them too!

We got to their house about 8pm the first night and the kids hung out together and then after they went to bed, me, Jared, Caryn, Cade, Ashley and Blake stayed up playing Wits and Wagers. The next day was the snow day. We got up, ate breakfast and headed out to Flagstaff to play in the snow. For the first time ever, we actually borrowed snow clothes from people and what a world of difference they make. Everyone was warm and no one complained, we only left because I was cold, ha ha :) My kids were so excited to be in the snow, to touch the snow, sled it in it, eat it, everything. Its amazing how much fun you can have doing simple things.



Eating snow, the boys kept eating it like it was the most amazing treat ever!




Snow angels!


Tyler might have done it a bit backwards...


Eli wanted to build a snow man, in the end they were unsuccessful, but they were each happy to help him.


the twins decided to copy Emma and piled snow up on the sled and dragged it over to Eli when it was "fulf"

Eli and Tyler

Emma and Tyson

Jared at the top helping the kids to get situated and then giving them a loving push on their way down, Emma and Tyson sledding, Tyler running up the hill and Eli headed back up too

The twins...

Eli and Tyson cracking up

Emma and Tyler heading down...

Tyler getting ready to roll off on purpose....

and he's off!

Emmerson

 Tyler

Eli thought it was super cool to roll off the sled while going down, he taught his brothers to be stunt men like himself

 We had such a fun time and hope to go back again soon!

The boys all went out back when we got back to Caryn's to play in their snow

 All the kids played kerplunk at night after dinner and after we had returned from getting DQ and left Emma in charge. We finally got the kids to bed and watched a movie and then Cade set off a few fireworks to ring in the New Year. Here's to hoping 2013 is a fabulous year!