Finally Snow!!

We finally got good snow!!! It has been the saddest winter ever in MI. It is either too cold to go outside and the snow is the texture of salt, or there is nothing on the ground. I can count the number of time there was even enough snow to shovel on one hand. I was shoveling my back patio for something to do and that never happens. But finally, after all the waiting, winter has arrived. In honor of Carnival and the arrival of winter we decided to make a small dog snow statue in our front yard. Really it was because the snow didn’t want to stick when we rolled it across the yard to make a snowman, but after we started we wanted to show that we still had it. I think we did a really good job for thirty minutes and not having any tools, or water.

We also got to go sledding at my parents for the first time. I loved growing up with my own private sled hill out my back door and it is fun to be able to share that with Zachary. To make it feel even more like going home we were able to go sledding with my sister, Autumn, Ryan (her husband), and my nephew, Aiden. Matt was not very successful at getting down the hill with Zachary in the sled. His first run he almost ran into a tree before the bottom of the hill. On his second run Matt didn’t even make it a quarter of the way down the hill before he slid off the sled. However, even with all of these mishaps Zachary would only get on the sled with his dad. He went all the way down to the bottom with me successfully but the entire way was crying for DaDa.

He didn’t even want to go down the hill with my Dad, who is the ultimate sled rider. Yes, you hear it right, my 59 year old dad (who just had his third hernia surgery Jan 28th) was sledding with his grandkids. He looked the most comfortable going down the hill with a kid on his lap. Probably because he has done it so many times with his own four kids and all of his 35 nieces and nephews.







Overall, I wouldn’t trade any winter snow days for all of the summer and sunshine in the world, which is probably why I ended up at Tech and loved every minute of it. I am just sad that we didn’t get the forty inches that some of my co-workers got in PA. Now that would have been fun!!