Snow Day

Rand had been asking to go play in the snow for weeks, so last month I decided to JUST DO IT and took the kids up to Flagstaff for a day.

It was a great day. They were so good on the drive (about 3 hours) and we had a blast. We played with a gigantic sundial at one of the prettiest rest stops ever:

The pay phones were also incredibly exciting and unusual.

At last, we made it to the snow. Rand was so good about being patient, even though he could see the piles of snow out of the car window. I decided that if we were going to play in the snow, we were going to a place where there was a) food and b) bathrooms. We went to a specific Snow Play location, which was perfect because there were tons of families and kids all having fun.


Rand LOVED it. He was laughing out loud as he ran through the snow. He fell down on purpose a lot, made snow angels, and wanted to make a snowman but I didn't bring my gloves so it was a little chilly for me. We compromised and had a snowball fight instead.

We had corndogs and a candy bar for lunch.

It was such a nice sunny day -- we didn't need jackets or hats (Rand just liked his hat)

Finally, we bought a sled.

Rand had so much fun sledding down the hills. The three of us all would climb on and he was laughing and shouting the whole way down. I wish I would've been able to record it, but trying to juggle steering, two kids, and a video camera would've been dangerous.

He even wanted to go down the big hill. We did a couple of times, but Ella was absolutely terrified, poor thing, so we stuck mostly to the smaller hill. Hopefully next year she will have more fun -- she liked watching the kids play, but she did not want to be set down for more than 2 seconds. My arms were very tired by the end of the day.

We didn't even make it back to the main road before this happened: