A North Carolina Snow Day!

It finally snowed in North Carolina! 

Goose's winter gear still fit from his Kindergarten year in Minnesota, and I lucked out and found some of his old snow pants and boots for Bubbie, although they were a bit too big.  BV had to work today, but before leaving he dug out the sled for us.  After getting dressed, we headed outside for some playtime.

 Someone is happy about the snow!

 He tried to show Bubbie how fun sledding could be, but...

 ...he didn't find it as thrilling.  Soon after the meltdown we headed in for lunch and naptime.

Meanwhile, Goose and I headed back out for some more snow fun which included...

 ...football..

 ...sledding...

 ...eating snow...

...and of course...

A SNOWBALL FIGHT!

Saturday Sledding Adventure

Today we headed to the local elementary school to go sledding and boy does a year make a difference!  Last year, it took quite a bit of coaching to get JV to go down the hill by himself and as you will see below, he's turned into quite the little dare devil.

 

 

 

Even 'Bubbie' came out for the adventure.  Well for a little while anyway.

 

And now it begins...

 He's looking good



 

Until the crash that is!

 

Before we left for the day we had a quick photo session.

Our first family picture!

A Day of Building Snowmen

This past weekend it began to snow, and snow, and snow.  Luckily it wasn't that cold according to Minnesota standards, so we put our snow gear on and headed outside to play while Daddy shoveled the driveway. 

 JV and I decided to make a snowman.

 

 The snow was perfect for snowman building so it didn't take long to complete our snowman, although we did have to get Daddy to help put the belly and head on because he was too heavy for us to lift.

 

 Cheese!

 

 

 Hugs!

 

 Daddy helped dressed our snowman.  JV has been calling carrots noses ever since we gave our snowman a carrot nose.

 

 Daddy and JV

 

 Snow Angel!

 

I love this picture.  Daddy captured it while JV was trying to climb "the mountain", also know as the snow hill in our yard.

 

 JV had patiently waited to go to the park, so after we finished making the snowman in our yard we headed over.  If you've never been to the park when it's snowing, I highly recommend you try it.  The slides are 10 times as fast when it's snowing, so it's fun for adults too, but make sure to be at the end of the slide to catch your little ones or they will literally fly off the end of the slide!

 

We also had a snowball fight.  JV walked up to Daddy and said, "My turn!".  I thought he wanted to throw a snowball at Daddy but apparently he wanted Daddy to throw one at him...haha!

 

Before we left the park we made another snowman.  This snowman was even bigger than the one at our house.  We struggled and struggled to get the belly on, but finally managed to get it.  When it came to getting the head on, we had to take snow off the ball before picking it up.  Then we piled snow back on top. 

 

 Daddy and Jackson showing off their hard work!

1st Time on the Ice

After having no luck finding an ice rink in the Maple Grove area that was open before 4pm on a weekday I decided to look for one closer to Jackson and my school.  Through a website, I stumbled onto George Enloe Park.  I picked this one because the website stated that it had a sledding hill in addition to an ice rink.  I figured that if ice skating was a bust, we still had something fun to do. 

Before heading over I called the used children's store in hopes of finding some ice skates.  I guess I waited too late because they were all sold out.  Then I remembered my classmate telling me that she put all 3 of her boys on the ice in their tennis shoes 1st before having them balance on skates.  So that's exactly what we did!

 

 JV fell 3 times before making it to the actual rink, but he would roll over and say, "I do it." while picking himself up.

 With some encouragement he made it all the way around the rink.

 He really liked when we sang "The Wheels on the Bus." and pretended to drive the bus.

 And this is the reason for the helmet!  Yes, it was quite a fall, but the helmet did it's job and JV didn't even whine.

 

After skating for 30 mins or so we changed shoes, grabbed the sled and headed to the hill.  That hill would have really impressed BV.  Unfortunately I left the camera in the car so I have no pictures, but we will defiantly have to go back.  JV and I went together the 1st couple of times, but then he wanted to sled by himself.  "Just me." he would say.  So off he went.

 

Lastly we stopped by the playground on the walk by the park.  With the combination of a skating rink, warming house, sledding hill, and 2 playgrounds I would rate this as one of my favorite winter parks!