Pine Valley snow

We really missed playing in the snow and decided it had been over a month since we had made a visit to St. George. About 30 min from st. george is Pine Valley Mountain who had gotten a lot of snow lately. I pitched my idea to grandma and grandpa and got all the cousins involved in my weekend plans. We had to try and find some winter gear for the kids because we don't needs hats and gloves here. Plus Cord didn't have a warm coat that fit him so we made a quick trip to a 2nd hand store and bought one for $7.00. Chelsea didn't think it was such a fun idea and opted to stay in Vegas so she could have the house to herself or hang out with daddy.

Grandpa was able to track down some tubes (not as easy as you think - he got a tire store to sell him some new ones) and he got the 4-wheelers ready. We thought it would be fun to tie some tubes behind the 4-wheelers and let grandpa drag the kids around. On saturday afternoon we headed up to find snow. To bad all the streets had been plowed so we couldn't use the 4 wheelers but we found some good tubing hills by the resevoir. The snow was so deep that it almost went up to my knee in some places. Brianna was a good sister and took Cord down the hill multiple times. It was fun to listen to him laugh all the way down the hill - every time. Mason also had a good time until he went down a big jump, landed hard, and got the wind knocked out of him. It was fun to run into Angela and her family there having fun as well. They even shared a sled with us. We played for a couple of hours until all the kids were wet and cold and two of our tubes were popped. Then I pulled the fixings for hot chocolate out of my trunk for them to warm up on the way home. Right when we were leaving it started to snow. It was a great afternoon. Just wish we had built a snowman though, and I should have gone down the hill at least once. I was too busy looking after Cord and taking pictures.

It was fun to be in it for a little while, but we were quickly reminded how nice it was not to live in the stuff (sorry to my friends in Mass.) It was a great family outing.














That evening Brianna headed off to spend time with her friend, Sasha and the rest of headed to the movies. I've been dying to see "Chipmunks 2" (j/k) but it was playing at the $2.00 theater and it was something the kids would enjoy. Not to bad, prob worth the money to rent it at Redbox for $1.00.

We headed home sunday morning to get back for church. Funny side note: We were listening to the Glee soundtrack there and back. One song "Sweet Caroline" quickly became one of our favorites because Cord would pipe in with his "Ba, Ba, Baaaa" at just the right time. So funny!