Snow Day

Feb 20, 2012 happened to be one of the best snow days we had all winter. I felt bad for the kids because I'm not one who plays in the snow, I send them off with dad to do that. Yes, I enjoy the annual Jones sledding party at Soldier Hollow in January with a tow rope and inter tubes. Miriam went down a lot this year and Aaron went down like twice but wasn't sure about partially because he got sprayed in the face with ice all the way down. I always want to get pictures of the event, but never really do (it also happens at night which is also hard for pictures). So here we are with good snow all the cousins were getting together to go sledding but Eric was working and I couldn't get everything together to go on my own and I felt really bad for them. So when I got Rachel down for her nap I bundled them up and sent them out with their "boat" as Miriam calls the sled. I tried to find someone to come sit with Rachel so we could sled down the gentle slope at the nearby school but no such luck.

They seem to enjoy being pulled around in the sled and for the first time in her life Miriam made a snow angel (how did she get to be 3 almost 4 without doing that!?!). We have a neighbor down the street that whenever it snows even a little there is a cute snowman in there front yard, but until today my kids never tried that either. Tried is a good word for our attempt as we ended up pushing the snow instead of rolling it so it looks more like a snow volcano. The kids had a ball and didn't want to come in so I guess we had a successful day. The next decent snowfall of which there was only one more if I remember right Miriam wanted to do it again but I didn't go out.