Valentines Day in The Snow!

Saturday was the perfect day for a trip to the snow. It had been stormy all week and Saturday was gorgeous and sunny, still not warm, but it was nice. The kids had never been to the snow before, we kept trying the last two years but Wy was just too little. This year was perfect. We gathered up snow clothes and sleds and a few cool people to take with us :) and headed to Wrightwood for the day. We caravanned up there.. us, my bro and Brandi and the kids and Dustin and his boys. We got there around noon and spent the next few hours sledding, throwing snowballs and watching Luke and Dustin hike back up the mtn with 2 four year olds! Best story! The mountain/hill we chose was perfect, it came to a little bit of a plateau where your sled had the ability to stop rather than going all 150 yds down the rest of the mtn. Well Luke decided to go halfway down the big part. As soon as he crawled back up to the top, exhausted, sweating, hungry, Jack and Mason hopped on their sleds and began the long ride down to the very bottom of the hill! The whole way down Luke was screaming at them to stop, they didnt. The tow of them finally ended at the bottom which had me in hysterics thinking about Luke having to go back down and up the mtn again. HA! Him and Dustin went and got them and it probably took them a good half hour to get up, by the time they were almost to the top Luke was pulling a sled with jack laying on it, Luke was crawling on his hands and knees because if he didnt his feet sank two feet down in the fresh powder. AHAHAH i just about died watching this. It was like a sled dog. Jack just kept yelling "Hurry dad!" Luke was cracking up. Anyways, the kids had a blast. Even though Wyatt couldnt move very well in his snow clothes and when he fell he freaked out cuz he couldnt get up! But he loved sledding and loved playing in it. So worth the trip up there... we had ALOT of fun!
The specs at the bottom are Dustin and Luke on their way down to get the boys LOL
Halfway up, resting and throwing snow at each other (this is zoomed in by the way)Almost there!!! "HURRY UP DAD!"Jacks first sled ride Ky and BrandiLittle snowman Dylan, Ky and Wy, who couldnt move if he wanted to!The Erwin ClanDad and WyWyatt sledding So happy after too!
We were stuck and couldnt get up!Mase and JackLong day makes for a wet Jack and cranky Wy!So cute in his snow clothes!After the snow we headed to Newport with Marc and brandi and went to Spaghetti Factory for dinner. All of us were exhausted by this time ( the four of them had spent the night the night before cuz we had a little too much fun playing Joker and only managed to get 4 hours of sleep). We all headed home and we met Dustin, Ambra and the kids at our house for some dessert and Wii! Ambra brought chocolate covered strawberries and cupcakes (I still despise you for that btw) and we played Mario Party for a good 3 hours. Where I pretty much kicked butt at the end! Thats what ya'll get for telling me I suck!! Anyways, a great vday for us (beats Chuck e cheese last year I think), hope yours was as snowy and cold and filled with coughs and fevers the next day too :) ...that part was so not fun!