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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Southern Sledding


Sunday night we received our second round of snow this winter. This time it was closer to 6-8 inches which meant that there was enough to close school down for the entire week, and give us a chance to go sledding. Since we live in the south we weren't quite prepared for a day of sledding and so we made due and grabbed a couple of cookie sheets and a pizza pan.

After getting stuck on the way to the sledding hill (aka a big pile of dirt)and having to get towed out by the 4-wheeler the boys were more than ready for a good time. We were feeling a little goofy when we realized that most of the others there had either REAL sleds, or boogie boards, but after they watched Carsen fly down the hill on his pizza pan we had people asking to borrow it for a run.

We had SO much fun, but after a week of snow and no school the boys (and their mom) are getting a little stir crazy.


Parker opted not to use the pizza pan most of the time and would just throw himself head first down the hill.

Charles and Parker making a run down the hill together on a borrowed sled. They were FLYING down that hill!



Carsen had a lot of fun going down like a penguin. He is usually very cautious, but he really surprised us and was the first to go down!





Charles took Griffen down once and he did NOT have a good time! Charles said he thinks it made it worse because they were going too fast and so he stuck his foot out to slow them down some and Griffen took in a face full of snow.






One unhappy boy.








Saturday, January 8, 2011

Alabama Christmas (with SNOW)

Growing up in Utah I had my fare share of white winters, I'm sure we even enjoyed snow on Christmas morning a time or two. Waking up to snow on Christmas morning in Alabama? I would have never dreamed of it! But it happened, and it was amazing! I told Charles several times that I felt like a kid again! The only thing better than enjoying this rare event myself was seeing my sweet boys enjoy their first (and possibly their only) white Christmas!

We started our morning nice and early ( like 5:30 early). I remember looking outside the back door and seeing more slush than the predicted snow. We opened our stockings, checked out what Santa left for us, and then opened our family gifts and played! At some point I looked out the window and realized that the snow had started sticking and it was quickly covering the lawns and roads near our house. After the older boys had seen what was going on the wandered back to their new toys, but our little Griffen sat in front of the window for quite awhile saying, "snow snow snow".

At around nine we headed over to my parents house for what has become our traditional Christmas breakfast and the drive over was spent pointing to everything out the window and saying how beautiful everything looked covered in snow. We were able to watch the snow fall through the huge wall of windows at the back of my parents house and enjoy staying warm and cozy inside.

We left my parents and headed over to Charles' parents house to have lunch. After lunch we opened gifts, and as soon as the wrapping paper was cleared everyone was bundled up and ready to go outside. I should mention that the reason for the lack of Christmas morning pictures is that my camera was broken, but Charles parents gave me a new one for Christmas and so please prepare for picture overload. :)

Charles' parents have a little hill next to their house that the boys enjoyed sledding down. As you can tell from the pictures Grandma had to pull them most of the way, but they didn't mind. Another first... SNOWBALLS! Griffen really nailed the snowball throw and hit several of us. I'm sure that the Christmas of 2010 will be one that we will always remember!

These next pictures were taken a couple of days after Christmas at our house, sadly the snow was more ice than anything, but the boys had fun anyway.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Pool Time

We have had this pool table for YEARS and sadly it's only been used a couple of times (at least for playing pool!) I usually use the table as my laundry sorting/folding area, and then from September until January it serves as yet another vinyl work surface. I'm not sure if Charles or the boys were more excited to see the table cleared off and ready to use!