We Had 'Snow' Much Fun!

Over the weekend, we were hit with a huge blizzard!  Actually, they had forecasted up to 12 or 14 inches, but it turned out to be much less.  It sleeted most of Friday night, so even though everything was white when we woke up Saturday morning, we were disappointed because it was mostly ice.  We were especially disappointed about possibly not being able to sled after what we went through to purchase a sled on Friday.  I went to purchase one at Mayo Garden Center on Friday morning because I knew they had them.  Whenever there is an impending snow storm on the way, they prop up a bunch of sleds out by the road.  But... when I got there they said they were sold out!  Apparently, there was some sort of 'sled rush' on Thursday night.  After posting my disappointment about not having a sled on Facebook, a nice neighbor told me Mayo was expecting another shipment in that afternoon.  By this time, I had already picked up the boys from school early and they were napping, so I sent Dan to stand in line.  When I called Mayo to see if the sleds had arrived yet, they said no but that there were already about 40 people in line.  By the time Dan got there, he said there were about 100.  At first, they had a 2 sled limit and Dan was going to purchase one for our neighbors.  But by the time they got about 20 people ahead of Dan, they had changed the limit to 1.  But we got one!  Anyway, it started snowing again late Saturday morning.  And this time it was nice, fluffy snow.  And it kept snowing for several hours straight.  So we bundled up and headed outside for some fun.

We started off in the front yard.  I put Boone in the stroller so I could photograph and video Fenn's first sled ride.  Dan pulled Fenn around the yard for a while, and Petey even got in on the fun.

On the first circle around the yard, Dan was going a little fast as he started to make a turn and threw Fenn off the sled.  I was videoing at the time... not sure if I caught it or not because of how far away I was at the time.  But I sure hope I did!  Fenn wasn't scared at all and got right back on the sled for some more fun. 

Then we put Boone on the sled with Fenn.  Dan pulled them both around the yard, and we were impressed with how well Boone kept his balance on the sled.  He really wasn't getting any help from Fenn.  We could tell how much fun Fenn was having because he smiled pretty much the whole time.  Boone's expression really didn't change much.  I think he was mostly confused by the cold and the white fluffy stuff landing on his face.  But we think he liked it okay because he never cried.  He was just mostly indifferent.

Remind me to give Dan a lesson about how to put on a kid's hat.  After I went back and started looking at these photos, I realized Dan had put on Fenn's hat upside down.  The part around Fenn's face is actually the part that is supposed to be around his neck.  So that's why it is so small and he can barely see.  Poor little guy!  I'm so sorry I didn't realize what the problem was while we were outside playing.  I knew something didn't seem right, but it just didn't register at the time.

We decided to go in the backyard for a while because the yard slopes down pretty good back there.  And we had the chainlink fence to catch us if we got out of control!  Fenn rode with me a couple of times.  And Fenn and Boone together rode with Dan.  Once they got to the fence, they staged a pretend crash.

We went back out a little later so Fenn could build his very first snowman.  We started off with a plastic fireman's hat, but the wind kept blowing it off.  So I ended up putting Dan's hat on him later.

On Sunday, Dan was working and it had warmed up significantly outside.  I decided to take the boys for a walk and then snapped a couple of photos of them with the snowman.  Notice that I have Fenn's hat on properly!  {That's the first photo at the top.} 

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