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Snow and Sledding Fun

We have had snow on the ground since Tuesday.  As I posted my last blog post on Wednesday morning at Bruegger’s, the snow was coming down and it really started to stick while I was there.  My dad called me at 10:00am and said, “You need to come get your kids NOW.”  I jumped in the car and drove over there to get them.  He was right.  The snow was really coming down and it was making everything very slick.  I got the kids and tried to drive home, but they had already closed the bottom of hill on Sardis Road – the way I needed to go.  Thank goodness for GPS!  I wiggled through a neighborhood and made it to another road that could get me home.  Of course, in order to get to the house I had to go up a pretty big hill in our neighborhood. I didn’t make it up on the first try, but I made it on the second.  Needless to say, we didn’t go anywhere else until Friday morning.

The snow was beautiful.  It snowed nonstop for over 24 hours.  This rarely happens in Charlotte.  The kids and I played outside with Abigail, Erik, and Ella from across the street numerous times throughout the days.  The kids rolled around in the snow, threw snowballs, walked around in the woods out back, and just played in the street.  It was so peaceful and safe feeling.  Everything was white, there were no cars driving by, no fear of strangers snatching the kids….it was quiet and safe.  I loved it!  I wish it were like that all of the time.

On Thursday afternoon the sun finally came out around 3:00pm and immediately the snow on the trees began to melt.  It sounded like it was raining.  We decided that this would be the perfect time to try to go sledding in the backyard.  Tom found some boogie boards in the shed that could double as sleds and we all went to find a suitable hill.  We practiced on a small hill and then realized that the backyard would be perfect.  We loved it!  Even Miller got in on the action!  We would sit on the boogie board, sled down the hill and end with a jump off of a fallen tree.  Lots of fun!!  Here is the video to prove it:

The next day some friends invited us to go sledding with them at the Siskey YMCA.  The snow had stopped and people were beginning to venture out of their homes.  I decided that it was time for us to do the same.  I am so glad that we did.  We had so much fun sledding.  The hill was a big and fast one.  We brought our boogie boards while our friends had two disks to go down on.  Me and the kids were there for over two hours.  We borrowed a two man sled from another girl and the kids were able to go down by themselves.  Sidney and her two kids found us and sled for a while as well.  It was so refreshing to be able to do something so fun together as a family.  I can’t wait for it to snow again so that we can sled!

Here are two videos that Adam Berke took of all of us:

 

 

 

 

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