Tai and I have been saying for awhile that we wanted to take Sam to the snow. And I have a friend who graciously said we could use her house in Big Bear (she let us use it when we went a year and a half ago too!) so we decided to go over the 3 day weekend up to Big Bear! We had a blast. My friend also allowed a couple of our other friends to stay in her house as well, so that was extra nice! We got up there early Saturday morning and stayed until the afternoon on Monday. Although it was a quick trip it was an awesome weekend getaway!
Not surprisingly, Sam did not like the snow. LOL. It took her awhile to warm up to it enough to even stand in it! HA! But eventually she made it onto the sled for a couple trips down the driveway. My friends house is on a big hill and the driveway is a perfect sled track. It made it nice because we really didnt have to leave the house at all!
My friend Kristi's house
All bundled up to go out to the snow for the first time! (it really wasnt that cold out... but I bought the snow clothes so she was going to wear them LOL. Plus I didnt want her to get all wet.)
Sam and Emma
Sam, Emma and Allison
Walking out... thiking she is going to love the snow
But......nope. She didnt like it! :)
Allison and Emma going sledding!
Daredevil Emma even went by herself!
Watching everyone else sled
And then Sam fell in the snow and was not happy
She eventually went in the sled though
Notice where she is standing? In the one spot without snow. LOL
Here are some pics of the kids just playing
Allison
Allison and Anthony
Sam and Emma
Sam and Allison
All 3
With Taylor
Lindsey and Kennedy
Emma and Taylor builing a snowman. Sam wanted no part in this because she did not want to touch the snow!
Kim and Ava
Sadie all bundled up to go outside!
me and Sadie
The Fam
Tai and Sam sledding
Keith and Taylor decided to take the sleds out and find some bigger hills to go down
Keith
Kim and Ava and Shana and Sadie.
Then Sam asked me to take her on the sled. So I did (and Tai took like a million pics of us on the way down. He likes our new camera a little too much. LOL)
and then I crashed us into a little hill and Sam got snow all over, so she wasnt happy with me
Taylor and Emma
Anthony and Allison
We also had fun inside the cabin. We had a fire going, music playing and the kids running around like crazy! There is no TV in this cabin, which is actually fun because we sit around and talk more, play games and the kids are forced to play with their toys and not watch TV! We had fun cooking dinner together and just hanging out.
Sadie passed out
Sam and Lindsey (we moved the couch back like that so the kids were blocked into the room. lol. The staircase is pretty steep and we didnt want anyone to fall down, so we locked them in!)
Sam and Allison
Sam was obsessed with the high chair.
Sadie and Ava
Taylor with all the girls. LOL. They just kept climbing on him
Sadie and Ava again
I guess I didnt get as many pictures of the kids playing inside as I thought. LOL. But trust me, they all had fun!
Yesterday when we were packing up everyone was saying how much fun we had and that we wished we were staying a couple more days. It was just a great time relaxing with friends in a gorgeous place.
KRISTI- STOP READING NOW IF YOU ARE READING THIS! :) I dont want to spoil the surprise.....
Did you stop reading Kristi?? Hope so! So as a thank you to Kristi for letting us use her house, I made her kids some hats. She has a little boy Griffin who is Sams age, and then she also has a Samantha who just turned 5.
I hope they like them!