Snow Day!

We have lived in California for a lot of years. Kailee is 7 1/2 and has been to the snow 1 time. When she was 18mos old. What is wrong with us??? Our poor snow deprived children! Well, that problem was remedied last week. Josh had his follow up appt in Fresno, so we decided we'd venture up to Shaver Lake. Lucky for us, our friends loaned us snow clothes and sleds... we packed some snacks and headed off for a day of family fun.

Beware. There are A LOT of pictures. It was a perfect day. Epic (I know, funny word, but that's what it was!) Just looking at these pics again brought warm fuzzies to my tummy. I love time with my family. It is so hard in our lives to carve out family time. No distractions, just us. It was awesome.

Josh stayed awake long enought to drive up, see where he was and then he was asleep in my arms while we hiked around and checked out the place.

Before we could play, the girls had to get suited up. That meant snow gloves. I thought this was going to single handedly (no pun inteneded) ruin the trip. You would think our children had never seen a glove. Let's just say, they got them on. No one cried. Parents kept their cool and we were ready to play.

Kailee's toungue was working really hard to get her fingers in the right spot.

Addie was dancing around singing, "First time at the snooowwww, First time at the sno o o o!".

Whoever played here previously made a snow cave/arch thing. It was way cool.

We made a super cool snowman. He was awesome. He had hair. And a pipe.

We only took this picture once. That's how great a day it was. Not only did they play, have fun, not complain when their toes were cold, they SMILED FOR PICTURES! AT THE SAME TIME!!Addie tried to feed the boy some snow... he wanted none of it. Smart boy to be cautious of what that particular sister tried to give him...

Then his Momma gave him some snow. He liked it:)

My little gymnast Kailee was doing handstands in the snow. My boysYour so funny Daddy!

Flying baby!

Family pic! When I was reviewing the pictures I saw this one and was shocked at how big our family looked. Funny. Sometimes I still feel like I'm only 18. I look at pics and can't believe I have this amazing and adorable family! I'm not old enough!

The girls look sooo stinking old here. I hate that they are growing up so fast. When we had had all the fun we could in the snow, we changed into our snugglies and had a car picnic. Josh is in love with oranges. Only he wants to hold the whole thing. This one didn't even get peeled and he still wouldn't let it go.

The girls were being silly and putting the cuties on their eyes (I have no idea why, but it was funny) Mike was trying to snap a picture and as he snapped, they fell and this is what the pic looked like. Sideways orange fangs.

The best part... we were the ONLY people at the snow park. Yeah for homeschooling:) While everyone else is stuck in school, we ran away to play! The girls did learn that a snowball really does get bigger and bigger as it rolls. They rolled a big snow ball about 50 feet. It ended up so big the 3 of them (Mike and girls) couldn't roll it anymore. It was too heavy! Josh and I had retreated to the car already and missed the photo opp.

Now that we know how much fun it is, we will definitely be going back more frequently!!!