Let it snow!!

Two weeks ago, Alexandra prayed that we would get lots of snow so we could go sledding. The next morning we woke up to a light dusting. Disappointed, she remarked that "more people must of prayed for only a little snow because we only got a little snow." The next week, the kids came home from school on Monday buzzing with excitement because we were supposed to get a snow storm and probably wouldn't have school the next day. I told them not to get their hopes up and sent them to bed on time. We woke up to a snow day, but still hardly any snow (at least in the eyes of a Cleveland girl). The funny thing was they closed Jared's office down in anticipation of the storm. He came home while we were eating lunch much to our delight. I kept thinking about the blizzard 2 years ago in Cleveland when it took him 5 1/2 hours to get home (1/2 normal commute) and his office never closed. In fact he had to play hooky the following day when he couldn't get out of the driveway. But I digress, back to the story. The girls didn't lose hope. They had been told it was a two part storm, and they were sure there would be no school the next day and lots of snow. Sure enough, the call came in late that evening that school was cancelled. I looked out the window and was surprised to find several inches of snow. The following day we had at least 6 inches and Xandy got to go sledding. The park we went to ended up being too steep for the little kids. Not necessarily because they didn't like the thrill, but because the hill was too steep to climb back up. Katy and Xandy had to crawl up it and Xandy couldn't tow the sled behind her. Which left me to pull 2 sleds and 2 little tykes up the hill I could hardly climb myself. Needless to say we didn't stay long. They did spend a large part of the day sledding in their friends' backyard. The moms and little kids stayed inside and baked yummy treats to eat. Saturday was forecasted to be in the mid-40s, so we hit the slopes early in the morning to sled once more before the snow melted. We had discovered there is a perfect sledding hill behind the houses at the end of our cul-de-sac. Its perfect, we can walk to it and its not so steep. Jacob loved sledding. But, he insisted on sledding by himself on his tummy. If a sled was ever left unoccupied for even a slight second he'd pounce belly first onto it. He was so funny and he'd laugh when he got to the bottom.
The first two videos are from the first day off last week. Can you tell they're snow deprived this year? They are trying their hardest to make do. The second two videos are from Saturday when we went sledding with Dad.

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