On New Year's Eve on snow finally came! We had a dry, slightly balmy December. It felt like I was still living in Oklahoma. In fact, we drove home from my parents' home that evening in the midst of a snow storm.
We had a slightly tense and humorous moment when our van got stuck at a stoplight about 2 miles from our home because the snow was deep enough we couldn't get traction. I jumped out and decided to push our van to get us going. Maybe it was one of those "you had to be there moments" but I got the van going and kept pushing a little through the intersection and then well . . . Clark just kept going. I'm jogging along side the van trying to catch up but knowing there was no way I could run fast enough to really catch up because it was slick and I had no traction on my shoes. I'm laughing and running. At some point I hear Clark yell "Are you running?" All he got was a laughing response and he finally slowed down enough for me to hop aboard. He's embarrassed what people will think of him for making his wife push the car. It's more funny to wonder what the kids were thinking "Daddy, why is Mommy running after the van?"
We had a slightly tense and humorous moment when our van got stuck at a stoplight about 2 miles from our home because the snow was deep enough we couldn't get traction. I jumped out and decided to push our van to get us going. Maybe it was one of those "you had to be there moments" but I got the van going and kept pushing a little through the intersection and then well . . . Clark just kept going. I'm jogging along side the van trying to catch up but knowing there was no way I could run fast enough to really catch up because it was slick and I had no traction on my shoes. I'm laughing and running. At some point I hear Clark yell "Are you running?" All he got was a laughing response and he finally slowed down enough for me to hop aboard. He's embarrassed what people will think of him for making his wife push the car. It's more funny to wonder what the kids were thinking "Daddy, why is Mommy running after the van?"
It was very ironic that for Christmas this year we gave our kids sleds. No snow! Ironic since one Christmas in Oklahoma we gave our kids a swing set and that was the year it snowed Christmas Eve. So we bided our time because eventually it snows in Minnesota. And it sticks and then snows some more.
Here we are breaking in our sleds. We have a decent sledding hill right across the street from our house.
See right behind us? That's our house. I could tell you stories about the ingenuity it took to get both of our cars in that two car garage but I won't bore you. Let's just say we are even complying to the very annoying neighborhood association rule of all trash cans in the garage. Not that I didn't want my trash can in the garage I just wanted my car in there more. I'm not sure why we are complying to it since I know several of our neighbors aren't. I can be discerning about my rebellions.
Afton made me laugh a lot today while sledding. She could barely walk or stand. So when we would set her down to stand she would take one step and fall over like this and just lay there. Funny girl.
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