On Sunday Dec. 23, 2012 we woke up in Lake Tahoe for our Christmas trip. Our drive up on Saturday was supposed to be 2 1/2 hours, but ended up being 7 hours long. It snowed the whole time and the rode kept getting shut down due to car crashes and buses sliding down the rode sideways. Santa came to our hotel on Sunday morning and brought the kids their sleds for Christmas.
After breakfast we dressed the kids up in their snow gear and headed for the mountains. While Eli was cleaning the snow off the car the kids played in the snow in the parking lot.
I love this picture of my 4 kids. This was in the middle of the parking lot and covered in snow. Right after I took this picture they all threw snow at me.
Highway 89 was shut down and barley plowed but we slowly made our way up the mountain and found a little snow park off the side of the road. The snow park was not plowed so we couldn't get in very far. We parked the car at the end of the road and went sledding. Some people showed up where we were and took our picture.
Mason mostly hung out with me down by the car while the rest of the kids went sledding. Mason was freezing cold and didn't want to do anything. Eli put the two little boys in the sled by the car and pushed them down the hill, but they ended up getting buried instead.
Look at the air Garrett got. They did a lot of crashing.
After an 1 1/2 hours Mason asked to be put in the car because he was cold. 30 minutes later when we were all packing up to go back to the hotel, I opened the back of the car and found Mason like this...asleep. I moved him to his car seat and we drove around the mountain for awhile to see how far up the mountain we could get. We came upon a car stuck in the snow without snow chains and Eli was the hero and spent an hour in a blizzard pushing them out.
When we finally got back to the hotel Mason was still asleep, we pulled him out and took him inside where he slept just like this for the next 2 1/2 hours. We all wanted to go eat dinner but none of us wanted to wake him and deal with a grumpy boy, so I took a nap as well.
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