Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Home made snow pants!


Our front porch.


Snow flakes in the eye lashes.


Throwing snow balls.

Snow Mountain

Pictures from our visit to "Snow Mountain" where fake snow transforms Stone Mountain into Snow Mountain. However, just the laser lawn is covered with snow. Colin was anticipating snow to be all over the mountain, but that would take too much snow!

Climbing in a snow fort built by others.


AAhhh ... the snow fort collaspes on Colin when he tries to make a window.


Nathan hanging out in the new snow fort that Colin helped build.


Nathan sledding down the little kids sledding hill in the area called "Little Angels".


Colin and Nathan making a double sled.


Colin "flying" down the hill!


Nathan smiling from ear to ear!

Sledding accident

During Christmas break, we went back to Omaha to visit the grandmas and grandpas. It was 9 degrees. Too cold for me, but not too cold for the boys to go sledding. The first day sledding, Nathan stayed inside. The second day, Nathan went sledding and the last run of the day, he had a sledding accident and fell off the sled into the ice face first. This is what Nathan looked like after 3 days. Better than I thought it was going to look when I first found out.

Pieces of clouds

I'm a little late in posting this and I apologize. Last month, Atlanta had two snow falls which is amazing considering it hasn't snowed in years (at least that's what it seems like to me). Typically it snows every other year in Atlanta, but twice in one year, wow! Of course the snow didn't stick around very long.

When it first started snowing, Colin was watching it come down and said, "I think it's just pieces of clouds." He wanted to go play in it so bad, but we had to take Dad to the airport after dinner for his trip to Austin. It was so pretty, all these big huge snowflakes coming down. As soon as we got back from the airport, Colin and Nathan didn't even go inside the house. They just went straight to the backyard to frolick in the snow. Nathan didn't last long and was inside getting warm in 15 minutes, but Colin stayed out there until it was dark and time to go to bed. These are the pictures of that evening:



As a side note, because of all the snow and ice on the planes, Dad waited on the plane 8 hours for it to be de-iced. Then the crew ran out of time, and they cancelled the flight. He ended up not going to Austin at all.

The second time it snowed it was 3 days later. This time the snow came earlier in the day, so it wasn't so dark. They had all day to play. Colin spent a lot of the time collecting the snow in a big bucket.

Santa, snow & Atlanta

Colin informed us while we were in Omaha that Santa doesn't go to Atlanta because it doesn't snow there.

I hope he doesn't tell his friends in Atlanta this!

Snow!!

For the holidays, we go back to Omaha where the grandmas and grandpas live. During this trip back to Omaha, we got to see the white stuff ... snow! Now, this is a real treat, because the last couple of years, it didn't snow at all. I don't know about the whole "global warming" thing, but it really seems like it snowed a lot more when I was a kid growing up in Nebraska.

So anyway, Colin was absolutely thrilled to see all of the snow and couldn't wait to go play in it. Poor Nathan was sick and didn't get a chance to experience it. But I figure there will be lots of time for Nathan to get his chance. Heck, this is Colin's first time and he is 4!

Bob and Colin head outside and before you know it, there is a snow ball the size of a small country for the base of the snowman. The snow is absolutely perfect for snowman making. It's a little wet and deep enough so you don't get all the grass in snow ball (I hated it when that happened to me when I was growing up!) The snowman turned out very nice.



While Bob was completing Mr. Snowman, I'm following Colin around with the camera and Colin just lays down in the snow and starts making a snow angel! I was shocked ... where did he learn to do that? Or are snow angels just something that is instinctive to do when you are a little kid. I wouldn't think so, but here he is doing it!


After the snowman, it was time to do some sledding. This time was just down the small hill (I really hesitate to call it a 'hill' though!) in the front of Grandma Mary and Grandpa Jerry's house. Grandma Mary had a couple of plastic sleds that Bob and Colin used. Bob would slide on his stomach with Colin laying on top of him! I'm just so thrilled that I got an amazing picture of this as they were flying past me!


Colin had a couple more adventures in the snow during this trip. One of them was sledding down a very, very steep hill with Bob and Uncle Ian. Colin even got to see it snow when we returned to Kansas City for the flight home.