The Story Of Us 1

Still novel

After a blustery night we woke up on Saturday morning to snow on the mountains in the distance and decided to go on our first 'snow trip' for the year. I wonder how long it will take for the novelty of snow to wear off? As Uncle Chrish, who is down on holidays, now lives in the land of no snow, he decided to come and share in out excitement. All the way up the mountain Chloe was chatting away about going to see 'her' snow. She has been rabbiting on about going to the snow on and off for the last few weeks after getting a new scarf, beanie and mittens. Forty minutes later we were surrounded by white. The two boys (Eden and Chrish that is) could not contain their excitement and jumped out of the car and into a snowball fight while I was left stuck in the backseat with two children and a pile of jackets, scarves, gloves and beanies to tackle. As I pulled the last beanie down firmly on a little head the boys got back into the car and decided it was too blustery out in the open and so we headed back down the road until we spied a slightly more sheltered clearing.
The snow was great- it was fresh, deep and powdery and the next fifteen minutes were filled with snow angels, dodgy snowmen, snowball fights and an attempt at tobogganing in a never used cat litter tray (what can I say it was an impromptu trip).
We attempted to take some rushed remote assisted group photos but the winds started blowing and the snow started falling so we are all squinting and after two attempts I thought it was cruel to continue just to get a nice photo. That was until I got in the car and had a look at how bad the shots we got were. I would have made everyone get out and say cheese a few more times but one little miss was already stripped of her wet clothes getting cozy and warm and I didn't have the heart. So these are some of the happy snaps we have of our babies (Chloe and Lachie's) first trip to the snow.

posted by Stephannie @ 9:26 PM