Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

It's no secret, I LOVE the snow!  I get so excited for a couple of things during the winter season: Starbucks red cups (then I know it's almost Christmas) and the snow.  God is amazing and the fact that each snowflake is different, baffles me.  They all look the same but yet they are all different.  The last couple of years I wasn't able to ski as much as I would have liked because of being pregnant and then there just wasn't much snow.  This year, we're off to a great start in the snow department (although as I write this all our snow has just melted:( ).  When I ski, I'm surrounded by God's beauty.  The nature, the hills, the gorgeous trees frozen over with snow.  I can just stare at the vast beauty God has given us.  Last Thursday Nicole, dad and I went skiing and you could see Spirit Lake from the top of the chair lift and the best part was the fog above the the lake; it was just floating mid air.  It was truly amazing.  

The day after Thanksgiving we had quite a bit of snow from earlier in the week.  We were worried that Uncle Joe might not get to come in from LA but he made it!  The snow continued to fall and it was just gorgeous.  I had bought Hudson a one piece snow suit earlier this summer at a garage sale.  It was quite the tedious task to get it on him.  You can watch this long, drawn out video of me shoving Hudson in his snow suit.  Uncle Joe thought it would be funny to film the whole thing instead of helping me!

Despite the struggles to get the snow suit on, I was determined we were going to have fun.  Having a special ed. background, I've learned that sometimes you have to make a kid try something (maybe a few times) before you completely rule it out.  As I was putting my snow boots on in the garage, I set Hudson down.  Well, he couldn't stand (as seen in video) and performed a downward dog onto the cement garage floor.  He had a goose egg that was HUGE on his head.  Oh geez, could it get any worse?  So I put him in the sled and he wasn't happy!

 What are we doing mamma?

 Then I started to pull him around on my parents sidewalk.  They have a nice big driveway and walkway that made a nice track to pull Huddy on...but he still wasn't sure.

 "Come on Hudon, isn't this fun?!"  Can't you just hear  me saying this?  I totally was:).

 "The snow is the best!"

 He would just point at me and say "Mamma".

 "Here we go!"

 Saying hi to Nana and Uncle Joe under the patio.

 Now I"m starting to like it!

 Part of our "path". 

 Hudson started to say "Walk, walk" so I would get him out and ask him if he wanted to walk.  Which of course he couldn't with his HUGE snowsuit.  What he meant was for me to walk and pull him.  He loved it!  We went and got the mail with Papa and created a new track.  That was fun too. 

 

Papa never misses out on a Hudson activity!  

Hudson loves to sled and often says "outside".  He defiantly enjoyed himself after the tears, pushing and shoving him into his snow suit, and getting over the big bump on his head.  Mamma can make anything fun, right?!  Ha!