SNOW DAY!!

New Years Day we went up to Big Bear. James has never been to the snow and Craig and I were so excited to take him and see how he reacted. He was also very excited because he has seen snow and sledding on TV. Ever since we have seen the snow in the local mountains when we are out driving James always asks where his sled is. So he was excited to finally go sledding. My friend Lindsay's parents have a cabin up there and they were there for New Years so we went up to their cabin. It was so nice that we could sled right outside the cabin and go inside when we wanted to get warm or when Jake needed a nap! I don't know what it is lately but again we got off to a ruff start! We were almost all the way up the mountain, about 4 miles to go and James gets car sick! Luckily I had a blanket in the back seat and I knew it was coming so I covered him and caught most of it in the blanket! Poor guy:( Also luckily we had some extra clothes so we pulled over as soon as we could and we were able to change him and I cleaned up a bit. Thank goodness we could wash all of the stuff at the cabin! Once we got there he was back to normal, excited to be with his friend and go in the snow!
Ayden and James all ready to go out in the snow!

Jake ready for the snow!

Zoe didn't last that long out there, it was her nap time!

Mommy and Jake

Family Pic

James eating the snow, yum.

Daddy and James

James' first time going down on the sled. He watched Ayden do it and he just got right on, we didn't need to do any coaxing.

They were getting air off this little bump, we decided to even it out a bit more!
This picture is priceless!

Here is a video clip of James going down for the first time!

Daddy and James going on the sled

Ayden and James going down together, oh my, it made me a little nervous!


James throwing snow balls

At the end they built a snowman. Well really Craig and Jeremiah built it while the boys played with the trucks in the snow.


What a great day we had. When we tried to leave though we had a little problem. We were all in the car ready to go and we couldn't get out of the driveway! We had driven Craig's car and he parked at the neighbor's house. They had a driveway that went downhill, so when Craig tried to back out his wheels just spun. We tried for a half hour to get out and then Jeremiah ended up pulling us out with their car! What a mess! There was a lot of traffic on the way out of town, which was kind of good so that James could fall asleep before we headed down the hill. Both of the kids slept all the way down and woke up right when we were down the mountain, so no car sickness on the way home, thank goodness!
We had so much fun! Thanks Lindsay and Jeremiah for letting us come up and play! :)