Saturday, December 27, 2008

The Long Drive Home...

We headed down the hill to Yucaipa the day after Christmas...it was hard to leave Grammy and Pappy and all that snow!! We had a fun week...and a LLLLLOOOOONNNNGGGG drive home!!

Brody and Sammi hung in their jammies as long as they could!! They played another game of Mario Kart...

Here is a final snow pose before getting in the car for the long (did I mention LONG) drive home! When we left it was snowing soooo nice...not like the nasty wind/blizzard snow from the day before!! It was gorgeous up there!! We are sure the snow will last and there will be many more sledding days and the boys will get to snowboard too!

Here they are getting into the van for a sled ride in the van down the driveway!! See the tops of the railroad ties on the right...um, yah, those aren't usually so close to the ground...there was a TON of snow!!

Here is what Brad and I called our sled run...we figured that if we slid we would just bounce off each side of the road! It was one giant sled run the whole way down the hill!

When you see this sign you know you are in for a bumpy/icy ride! This was on Big Bear Blvd...


Oh yeah...this was at noon!! 17 is cold for me!!



We had to keep stopping and adjusting or attempt to adjust the chains...they were very loud and annoying. Sometimes we would break into a song with the tune of the clacking chains!! hee hee

Brad was VERY proud of his chain action on our van!! Um...by the way, did I mention it was COLD?!

This was our road down the hill....blue sky, few snow showers and gorgeous views out every window! We got to see the gorgeous views for over 2 hours driving down the mountain!!

Ok..so this was a quick shot of the cars coming UP the hill. It was bumper to bumper the entire way up!! We just kept laughing at them...we could only imagine how long it took them to get up there!! Eish?! We were bummed that we didn't start counting them at the top...it would have been a VERY high number!!

This sign was the UNDERSTATEMENT of the year!!

This was taken in Angeles Oaks...which is about 20 minutes from home!! Crazy!!

After getting home and still having it only be 36 outside...the kids were able to open up one more Christmas present from Aunt Heather!! Yippee....thank you!!

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