Friday afternoon it started snowing. We were at the homeschool Christmas party, so we packed up and headed home. We slid a lot on the roads, especially trying to get up our hill. With a couple inches of snow on the ground already we put on our gear and went in the backyard to sled. One nice thing about all the hills in Virginia is that we don't have to go very far for sledding. When we went to bed Friday night there was 11 inches on snow. Saturday morning we woke up to find our car looking like this.
I measured 13 1/2 inches in our backyard. This is one of our cedar trees. Chris can usually fit under the tree while on the riding lawn mower.
Amber is licking the snow off of our patio table.
Diesel acting like a puppy again. He loves the snow.
We found that it was pretty hard to walk in the snow, it was up to the girl's knees. So we decided to stay close to the house to play. Here the girls are painting in the snow with colored water in water bottles.
Jared made several sledding tracks going down the hill by our driveway. Later we made a big long one in the backyard.
Krystal actually got too warm and decided to take her coat off.
We also made snow cones. The snow was powdery soft and yummy!
Amber's ankles kept getting snow on them so I pulled out a chair for her to sit on. She sat and ate her snowcone while watching the others sled.
As the day got a little warmer the snow finally started packing. We made a Princess Leia snowwoman.
And a Darth Vader snowman, he's huge! We started on Luke, but got tired and cold so we went in the house for some hot chocolate. There's still plenty more snow out there to be enjoyed and although we got the Suburban out of the driveway, we can't get it back up, so it's parked at the bottom of our drive. Oh well, it's worth it, it's so pretty outside and I'm sure the kids will be busy sledding every day until it's gone.
I measured 13 1/2 inches in our backyard. This is one of our cedar trees. Chris can usually fit under the tree while on the riding lawn mower.
Amber is licking the snow off of our patio table.
Diesel acting like a puppy again. He loves the snow.
We found that it was pretty hard to walk in the snow, it was up to the girl's knees. So we decided to stay close to the house to play. Here the girls are painting in the snow with colored water in water bottles.
Jared made several sledding tracks going down the hill by our driveway. Later we made a big long one in the backyard.
Krystal actually got too warm and decided to take her coat off. 
We also made snow cones. The snow was powdery soft and yummy!
Amber's ankles kept getting snow on them so I pulled out a chair for her to sit on. She sat and ate her snowcone while watching the others sled.
As the day got a little warmer the snow finally started packing. We made a Princess Leia snowwoman.
And a Darth Vader snowman, he's huge! We started on Luke, but got tired and cold so we went in the house for some hot chocolate. There's still plenty more snow out there to be enjoyed and although we got the Suburban out of the driveway, we can't get it back up, so it's parked at the bottom of our drive. Oh well, it's worth it, it's so pretty outside and I'm sure the kids will be busy sledding every day until it's gone.
2 comments:
Fun! You guys have a GREAT hill too!
Lots of super duper fun! I LOVE your snow people! My poor kids will never know the joys of living in snow :( Maybe someday we'll visit where there is snow - as long as I don't have to go anywhere else ;)Enjoy it!
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