Sledding down the driveway

 Although I plan on never buying a North facing house again (think piles of snow in our driveway while the people across the street have NONE!) one benefit is a sledding hill right at our house.  After shoveling the drive way after this last snow storm the neighbor kids came over and found it plenty slick so they ran home to get their sleds.

 Chase had so much fun with them I didn't dare tell them they probably shouldn't be sledding out into the road so I went and stood at the bottom of the hill and stopped them before they went out into the road.

This is Liam.  One of Chase's favorite people.  Liam is 6 and in Kindergarten so he doesn't get to spend a lot of time with him, but he just loves it when Liam does come to play.

Another bonus is that when Liam comes to play so do his two older sisters that treat Chase just like a little brother (probably even better!)  They push him in the sled, pull him in the wagon and just make sure that he is taken care of.  Chase always has a blast when they come around.

Ugh!  Again with the snow.  So we took Chase to see Tangled, which happened to be our first 3D movie in theaters.  Unfortunately it was too lovey-dovey for him and he just wanted to leave the whole time :)

I was in a pretty bad mood from being tired and waking up to snow, so I found a way to turn things around and enjoy the snow.

The lesser of two evils.

This year our circumstances left us with two less than ideal choices for a Christmas tree.  1- We could go get our own tree as tradition would have it, but it would have to be a juniper (gasp) or 2- We could go and BUY a tree (double gasp)!

We decided the memories of cutting down the tree would make it worth having a juniper and I think we chose the right idea.  Besides as Daniel put it " a juniper tree is no worse than a pinyon (the kind I grew up with)." And I felt the same about the Charlie Brown tree (or Blue Spruce as he calls them :) that he grew up with.  (Love you babe :)

We forgot Chase's gloves and he just couldn't resist playing in the snow, so we had to make do.

 It was an incredibly muddy road out the the area.  There were huge puddles of water to drive through and we slid off to the side of the road more times than I can count, but this ole' truck just gets us wherever we need to go.

 In front of the tree we picked.

Yep, we definitely made the right choice.

Snow Day

 After 5 years of living in the snow during the winter you might think I would be used to it by now, but every year I'm still surprised how long the snow can just sit there without melting away immediately like it did when I was younger.

I guess if the snow won't go away, we have no choice but to take advantage of it.

 And there just happens to be one perfect hill in Stansbury Park for sledding.