The Mandatory Snow Post

I love snow like the one we experienced today. It comes in while you're sleeping (so as not to interfere with the day's plans), gives you lots of fun the next morning, and then quickly disappears so you're not stranded at the house for days on end. And, you don't have to fight the crowds at the store in order to get milk and bread. The boys were excited to see the whiteness that covered our yard. So excited that Grant woke me at about 1:35am to ask me if I knew that there was snow everywhere. "Well, son, not really......being that I'm SLEEPING!" I think his original reason for getting up was a bad dream but who knows. Cade was siked because we had bought a new sled about a month ago. I thought for sure that it would be Murphy's Law that since we now actually OWNED a sled, we wouldn't get any more snowfall for the year. If you remember, last year our redneck family attempted to sled down our hill on a piece of box that I had torn. Totally embarrassing.




Bobby tried his hand at a triple decker sled down the hill. It didn't go over too well but that didn't stop the smiles.

You can't hang around this crowd too long without hearing "OHHHH, my TENDERS!!!" which is exactly what Rhett is yelling after receiving a swift moving snowball to the "area" in this pic. Thank you Kung Tu Fanda (Rhett language) for instilling this ever so useful statement into our everyday vocabulary.

I got my turn to try out the new sled before the snow melted away. By the way, I love snow outfits. This jacket of Bobby's really just hugs my curves in all the right places. Makes me feel like a woman.

A great big woman.

Rhett braved the sled alone but then decided to ride piggyback with Bobby. Previously, I would wait for him at the bottom and then stop him before he slid into the creek at the bottom of the hill. This time Bobby was doing the stopping but Rhett didn't get it. I took this pic just as the concern crept upon his face. Seconds later he screamed, "OH NO" and bailed.

He had a lot of fun just surveying the snow and making snowballs.

And, this post wouldn't be complete if I didn't add a little bit of this.

Frigid temps and snowballs can't even keep this crack from surfacing!