Sledding Fun and Fried Bologna Burgers

It's not very often that we get enough snow to actually go sledding. When we do EVERYONE just loves it. In our neighborhood there were snowmen in lots of yards and snow angels all over ours. We were invited to go sledding on our friends farm and boy did we have fun. You see, sledding where we live is impossible. We live in the Mississippi Delta and it is flat. Just 15 miles north you are back in the hills so you have to pack up and go north to get any ground for sledding. As luck would have it my parents were in town so they got to go along. After sledding the whole crew went to a tavern for fried bologna burgers. As if big thick hamburgers were not enough they throw a little fried bologna on it. They have great corn dogs and fried okra for children. Schindlers has been around since 1934 and is located in a sleepy little town of about 500 with a beautiful Catholic Church next door. This was the location of my first official date with my husband so of course I might be a little biased. One of our friends moved here from Dallas about 5 years ago and he was telling my parents that there are certain things you miss about the city, but you don't get the little places like Schindlers. How true that is. It was just great family fun! Thank you Klueppels for the invite!!!

Icicle collections

We had an ice storm here and Clark and Bella Ruth were dying to get outside. I finally agreed and guess what they wanted to do...fill glass jars with icicles!! I remember doing the same thing as a child with my brother. I just love watching my children doing some of the same things that I did, it brings back those special childhood memories :) What a sweet time.

Love,

Chesnye

Sorry for the sideways picture, I'm going to fix it when I have the time to repost :) Will Henry has a early rise time of 5:00A.M. and it's late Saturday night so I'm a little sleep deprived!! Usually I'm in bed but we had a wedding tonight!

Oh my, I also have a lot of yard work come spring :( I just really noticed the condition of my yard as I'm posting these pictures.

Playing in the snow

Well we have had the "sick house" here but Clark and Bella Ruth were feeling better so I let them play in the snow for a little while. The weather here has been crazy. Just a few days ago it was 70 F and all of the neighborhood children were outside playing. Suddenly there was this horrible wind that knocked down trees, and then rain and tornadoes all over the south. Then followed by this snow storm just a few days later. I took a picture of Clark and Bella Ruth standing by our neighbors tree. Notice the roots were pulled out of the ground. Crazy!!

Clark also made a snowball line, no snowman this year. Children are just so silly!

Love,

Chesnye

It's a special day because...

it's Will Henry's first snow. This was the reason for Daddy's lay-down night with Clark last night. You can always find lots of "special days" if you look through the eyes of a child.



After months of praying for snow we finally got a little!! Today was a snow day so Clark, Bella Ruth and I had lots of fun playing in the snow. We made tons of snow balls. We ate a little snow ice cream too. Enjoy the pictures!!

Love,
Chesnye