The end of January we got our first 2014 snow in Pinehurst. Everyone was shocked (all the newbies) but really since we have lived here for almost 8 years we have gotten snow now about 5 years out of that. We waited for the snow all day on a Tuesday with school already cancelled. We finally got it that night. About 4 inches and then school was done for the rest of the week. On Wednesday morning after breakfast we got geared up and went outside to see this beautiful white stuff that has the capability of making you so giddy, cold and trapped all at the same time.
Testing it out before they had gloves on. Shocked that is was so cold. Ummmm, yep, it’s kind of like that.
Freedom!!!
Easton was exclaiming how cold it was!
Snow Angels are always a must and so pretty. Of course here you have pine straw mixed in.
Walking through the TALL pines to to get to the sledding hill. It wasn’t super steep but better than the back yard. Now the boys are too big for our tiny slanted back yard hill we used when Bradley was two and it snowed.
Since Daddy works from home when he’s not out of town working he didn’t have a course to teach so he got to join in on the snow fun.
You can see the path we were aiming for and it worked. No one was close to hitting a tree.
Gavin- he refuses to even zip his jacket all the way up to cover his chest. It really was super cold out!
Easton as you can see was wanting to go in so I got a picture right before in anticipation it would be the only time we were all out together.
Once we got in we had some yummy rich hot chocolate. Their cheeks were all chapped and rosy when they came in.
We also did something new and made “snow cream” which is snow, milk, vanilla and sugar blended. It was OK. I guess the trick is to use sweetened condensed milk instead of regular. Maybe you would just taste it and see if it needed sugar. Easton hardly even finishes a dessert so he didn’t this time and Bradley always finishes a dessert but he didn’t. I let him help me and I think a little too much vanilla was dumped in.
Oh and I almost forgot. We built a pretty pathetic snowman. Bradley really wasn’t into it so it was just me but the snow was not the snowball fight snowman rolling kind. I could not get it to stick together for the life of me. We had to use big chunks that were pushed in from the roads being plowed to start it off.
This was on Thursday, our second day in the snow.
Bradley and I went exploring.
On Friday when Gavin was headed to preschool he insisted on switching his nose to a carrot. By then everything was starting to melt pretty good.
The boys had a great time experiencing the snow at home together. It is safe to say that Easton does not like climbing hills or extreme cold and Gavin is really over it all pretty quickly and would rather be cuddled watching a movie.
We survived the 4 inch Snowpocalypse or Snowmageddon as others called it. We will live to see many more days……
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