What says 'I love you' more than time spent together? That's exactly the idea we had when we decided to go to the snow. Unfortunately, our half hour drive turned into closer to two and a half hours and we decided to just find a parking spot instead of our final destination. We eventually found a large open field of fresh powder up to our knees and the kids were delighted. We knew there were train tracks close by and when we heard the whistle we went to see it. Of course there's a funny story.
We made sure we weren't too close to the train, but wanted the kids to see the train up close. It seemed to take forever so we had time to have the kids smile and still enough time to look back. Well, I was taking the picture and trying to get just the right smiles so I just kept saying smile and not worrying about the train other than that it was in the picture. As you can see the kids couldn't resist turning around to watch, but Eric was great and kept smiling at me. What I couldn't see behind Eric (but the kids could!) was that this train wasn't an ordinary train. It was a.....SNOW PLOW! As I mentioned, the snow was up to our knees in places so just imagine the tracks. Well, I got the picture I wanted and had just lowered the camera to wave at the train engineer who was looking at me like I'm some crazy women, when I see snow flying 10 - 15 feet in the air as the plow passed over Eric and then me. I was laughing so hard because here I am trying to get a good picture and Eric not looking back to see the snow about to cover him and then the engineer wondering what kind of crazy people would be out there! Thankfully the snow missed Eric and the kids by inches so our avalanche was avoided and we could laugh at it! Note for next time, when a train is involved look behind you before you smile for a camera.
The kids know there's something happening!
All I could see was what was in the last picture and all of a sudden....THIS!
There's never a dull moment in our family!
We made sure we weren't too close to the train, but wanted the kids to see the train up close. It seemed to take forever so we had time to have the kids smile and still enough time to look back. Well, I was taking the picture and trying to get just the right smiles so I just kept saying smile and not worrying about the train other than that it was in the picture. As you can see the kids couldn't resist turning around to watch, but Eric was great and kept smiling at me. What I couldn't see behind Eric (but the kids could!) was that this train wasn't an ordinary train. It was a.....SNOW PLOW! As I mentioned, the snow was up to our knees in places so just imagine the tracks. Well, I got the picture I wanted and had just lowered the camera to wave at the train engineer who was looking at me like I'm some crazy women, when I see snow flying 10 - 15 feet in the air as the plow passed over Eric and then me. I was laughing so hard because here I am trying to get a good picture and Eric not looking back to see the snow about to cover him and then the engineer wondering what kind of crazy people would be out there! Thankfully the snow missed Eric and the kids by inches so our avalanche was avoided and we could laugh at it! Note for next time, when a train is involved look behind you before you smile for a camera.
The kids know there's something happening!
All I could see was what was in the last picture and all of a sudden....THIS!
There's never a dull moment in our family!
1 comment:
Wow. That looks awesome with the train and everything.
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