New Year's Snow Day

Happy New Year!!

On New Year's Day we drove up to the White Mountains to find some snow. My parents went, my brother Andrew came and our good friends the Bybee's. We all just followed my parents and Dad found us a great spot to camp out and play for a while. It was great! Tyler has been asking about snow for months now. When we told him it doesn't snow down here he was pretty bummed. It took us 2 hours to get there but we found some. Ty wasn't much into taking pictures, he just wanted to play and fly down the hills. Ashlynn was a little cautious at first but then she just dove right in...literally!

My brother, Dave and Spencer made this snow cave for the kids to climb through. At first it was kind of small, then the boys made it a lot bigger thanks to my Dad's shovels! That's Dave and Ashlynn with their heads in the hole.

Dave wasn't able to get all the way through but he tried!

Here is Ashlynn with Ariana...they are the best of friends and never leave each other. Spencer was taking Nana down for her first run down the hill. So much fun! The best thing was that it wasn't very cold at all...it was almost 50 degrees out...too hot for me to wear my coat. It was sunny and gorgeous out...perfect for a snow day!

Ty and Kohl were little animals together! They didn't stop going until they physically had nothing left. It was mostly our kids that called it quits. Thank goodness for Spencer though...he brought fruit for the kids to snack on. We went hiking back farther and he saved the kids with oranges and pears. We played right through lunch and packed it up when the kids were soggy...tired...and starving!





Mom was so freezing cold and Dad kept sinking into the snow. But they had fun watching us play and be silly...and Andrew jumped right in on all the fun!

I love this picture of Ty up on the hill...looks like such a stud!

Okay...so those of you that REALLY know me and know some of my past have heard the story of me breaking my collar bone sledding the day after Dave proposed to me. Ever since then I am a total and complete baby about sledding! I don't do it very much because speed and hard snow freak me out now. This was the one and only time I went down that day. I held on for dear life and screamed like a little school girl the whole way down...it was great! The pic is kind of blurry but I am always so nervous right before and then I look like this when I get off. I made it and have no broken bones...yeah!

It was a great little day trip and not too far from home. We totally want to go back and hopefully we can before summer comes around again. There is much more to Arizona than dry deserts and cactus. Who would have thought we can have snow too!