A Snowy Spring Day!

We woke up to this sight:

SNOW on baby Maple leaves! A sight I do not think I have ever witnessed before!!

We had a good inch or two by the time it stopped.

Our gardens didn't seem to mind it too much! The Day Lily's still looked fresh and alive!

This little Pansy peeked it's way through the snow!

Hopefully everything will be fine! The snow was gone by the afternoon and I even think I saw a ray of sun!

Homeschool Family Sledding Day 2010

I am finely getting to post these pics of our Family Sledding day with the homeschool group at Nana and Bumpa's house! We had such a great time, the weather was perfect and we had a huge group! Here are some pics:

Ethan and Danyelle enjoyed heading down the hill in the double tube!

Nana hung out with Mollie at the top of the hill because she was NOT a fan of sledding! Each time I tried to take her down she cried the whole way!! Maybe next year?

Pat enjoyed playing on the four wheeler! Here he and his helpers are collecting wood for the fire pit. Thanks for giving rides up the hill Dad!!

Emmy and Bekah had a great time sledding this year! They went up and down the hill over and over and over!!!

Here they are heading up!

We enjoyed hot dogs cooked on the fire for lunch and cupcakes for dessert!

Emmy and Eliza enjoying cocoa and cupcakes!

This is most of the kids (a few little ones didn't want to join in the pic) posing for a group shot after lunch. We all had a great time!!

Thanks SO much Nana and Bumpa for having us again!

Here is a link to more pics from our day on the Homegrown Explorers Blog.

Snow Sculptures at Black Mt.

Before our sledding day with the homeschool group we took a little detor in Jackson to see where Daddy learned to ski! When we got up there we realized that was the site of the snow sculpture contest and had to get out and check them out! Here are the pics:

Ethan with the wishing well, people had really thrown coins in too!

Take a bite out of this one!

Peek-a-boo!

This one was our favorite! He had eyes made of ice circles!

And you could climb up the back and look through!!!

You can check out some better photo's of ALL the sculptures here!

Skiing Today at King Pine

Here are some pics from our day at King Pine today! We decided to try something new this year and so we are at King Pine instead of Cranmore. So far so good! The runs are short but the conditions were great and there were a lot less people which is a major plus!!!

Here is James, Ethan and Caleb on the lift in front of me:

Ethan and James in the lodge.

On the mountain.

A super fast racing pose!!!

We enjoyed skiing with the Nesses!

On the lift again!

A day of skiing would not be complete with out some of Nana Kelley's cookies to share! Thanks Nana for the cookies!!!

Fun in the Snow!

Just some pics of the kids playing in our first major snow storm of the year! It was snowing like crazy so the pics are a little fuzzy (not warm and fuzzy though).
I snapped this one of Emmy as soon as she tossed some snow into her face... the look was one of surprise I think!!!

The boys worked really hard to shovel the driveway... just kidding!
I think they were making roads. Here is Ethan in action.

Go for it James! I love how the snow is piling up on his head! It was really snowing hard!!

Emmy didn't have a shovel so she wasn't much help, but she was happy!

Watch out sis!!

Catching snow flakes???

Eating snow is the kids favorite thing to do while out in the white stuff! They could just sit there forever munching away!

More munching...

James wanted me to take this action photo of him throwing snow!

A cute one of the boys!

Even more munching...

...and more, and more, and more!

Snow goatee or Santa???

LOVE the tongue Em!

First Snow Camera Fun

We woke up to snow on Sunday morning! I was feeling like I really didn't care if the snow came this year but then seeing it covering everything and making the world look so beautiful and fresh I changed my mind =;) I had to snap a few pics with Bill's camera (my father in law let me borrow his Nikon D50 while taking my camera class!)

I love how the snow clings to all the branches! It won't last long with blue sky like that!

We only got a few inches but it was enough to cover everything!

We learned about how clouds add interest to your pics, I thought these clouds were interesting... how about you???

These are actually out of order, if you can tell by the light in the next two it was earlier in the morning when I snapped these.

Oops... deck furniture in the snow!!!

Homeschool Sledding......again!

Nana and Bumpa (Pat's parents Sherri and Bill) very graciously let the homeschoolers come and invade the place for another awesome day of sledding. It was a beautiful day in the 40's and 50's and lots of sun! This time it was a little on the warm side for running snow machines so we didn't have the escort service up and down the sledding hill, but we did get a few rides in!

Ethan and Bumpa headed to the hill!

Mollie and Nana hanging out at the bottom.

Lauren and James getting ready

Emmy thought it would be fun to pull Lily around in the little sled, not sure if she was enjoying it as much as Emmy though!



Mollie's first snowmachine ride!

James had a great time "surfing" down the sledding hill! Check out the video I took of him in action. He actually was able to stay standing the whole time because the snow was so sticky.


Ethan and Pat are up to no good here by the look of their faces, I think snowballs had something to do with it!

Smile! I got this group photo at the top of the sledding hill.

Pat snapped this one of Mollie and I enjoying the sun. We actually went down the hill in a sled like this (thankfully no one caught that on film).

Emmy was sporting these cute little "noggin knots" (as I call them), they stayed in nicely even with a hat on!

As you can see from these pics it was really sunny and warm! The boys actually got really bad sunburn on their faces. Of course stupid me never thought of sunscreen and the boys were out there from 10:00am to 4 or 5:00pm!!

We made snow paints (food coloring and water) and put it in spray bottles for Emmy and the other little ones. The big kids actually enjoyed them a lot too!

Emmy and Beckah thought it would be fun to add some color to the snowman Nana built with some of the kids.

Dominic and Emmy making the snowman pretty!!