March Snow :)

As I said in a previous post, we received more than our usual amount of snow during the winter of 2013/2014 and I loved every minute! We received quite the dump of snow the beginning of March and had the opportunity to play in it with some of our best friends and neighbors. The kids had such a fabulous time! :) Here are the four big girls on a pile of snow cleared from our driveway. :)

How precious are these two sweet faces?

It's always helpful to have some extra adults around when you need a good push down the hill! :)

Sweet sisters

Our next door neighbor girls came by to play and share their snowboards too

They are such good sports helping out the kids

Love this cute face

Love this silly "Santa" eating snow right where her sled came to a rest

Such sweet sledding buddies

And these two are truly a pair! They are such good buddies and really know how to give each other the business. They crack me up! lol :)

Yummy snow! :)

Crazy?

or sweet? I'll let you decide which is the real Jackson. :)

Not sure what they are working on here so seriously...

Snow angels...

After snow angels these two little nuts decided to explore the swing set. Jackson had a great time breaking up the snow on the slide. :)

Working together to pick up a snow block.

Icicles!!!

McKinley enjoying her first icicle

The rest of these pictures are simply me having fun with my camera and one of my favorite subjects - my little snow baby was definitely "pretty in pink" in the snow! :)



 

Thanks to our friends for the super fun day in the snow! :)

Cousins in the Snow - January 2014

The winter of 2014 was super fun with an above average amount of snow for Kentucky. It makes me realize I should really live further north! :) Heidi and Holden came to play in the snow with us one day they had off school and as you can see a pretty good time was had by all! :)

 Trying to walk back up the ice on the driveway

 The boys had at least as much fun (if not more) shoveling with these child size snow shovels from Aunt Arla vs sledding.

 This is probably my favorite picture of the day - what two cute cousins! :) 

 The girls trying their hand at snowboarding with our wonderful neighbors

I had to include this one sweet picture of McKinley all dressed up and ready to head outside to enjoy her first snow. This was actually a different day (our first snow was in November), but it was just too sweet not to include somewhere! Poor baby was all tuckered out from getting all dressed out and never actually managed to make it outside to enjoy the snow. lol :)

I also wanted to include this video Grand-Dad took of another fun snow day in January:

http://youtu.be/FB20jMTqTAo

Sure hope next winter we get as much wonderful snow to play in as we did this year! :)

Snow Play in Wisconsin - 2012

There was a blizzard the day we got to Wisconsin (actually it started as we were driving thru the night - we left early to try and get there ahead of it). It left tons of snow behind that provided many hours of fun for my munchkins during our week in Wisconsin. Here they are out on the first day enjoying icicles together.

 Here are 16 of 19 great-grandchildren playing in the snow together at the Carlson Christmas celebration. Love another generation of Carlson cousins making memories together! :)

 The Carlsons know how to play in the snow! There were a couple of 4-wheelers going to provide rides in the sleds.

 The 5 year olds (there are about 2 months difference of oldest to youngest between these three)

 The Schwantes 5 and 7 year olds

 Missy K, Haydn, Kiara and Reagan

 The Schwantes 4 year olds

 Daniel, Jackson and Reagan

 The kids who were waiting for a ride began a snowball fight :)

 When the waiting got to be too much the kids became creative and found a new way to sled... Exactly how many Carlson cousins can ride at the same time between the 4-wheeler, rope and sled?

 Missy K was the last one standing and Jeremy was nice enough to stay out and play with her after everyone else (including Tim and I) had given up/turned into human popcicles and gone inside.

 It wasn't just the kids who had fun in the snow, the adults enjoyed their fair share too! :)

 

 Lance was awesome playing outside in he snow with the kids. The kids had a great time on the reindeer and penguin sleds Aunt Arla had for them to ride down the barnhill.

 Reagan making a snow angel. You can get an idea of the amount of snow from how deep her wings are.

 The girls with the Phil Carlson grandchildren

 The barn was a good place to warm up a bit while playing outside. The cows are also a great excuse to take a break especially when Lance helped the kids pet the calves!

 When we were kids we use to dig out snow tunnels in Wisconsin when the snow was deep enough. Somehow we got to talking about this and Grand-Dad and I decided to help the girls do this as well. I have to say I'm much faster and more successful at this endeavor than I was as a child! 

 Missy K's up front, Grand-Dad's to the right digging from the other direction and Reagan's in the back contemplating beginning a third tunnel to meet up in the middle.

 Big enough for 3!

Thank you to everyone who played in the snow with us! We had a fabulous time and it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun without all the cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents! Thank you everyone for so much good old fashioned fun! :)