Snow Cal

Here we are in beautiful snowy California! So we missed our annual trip to Utah for New Year's (sob, sob) and it happened to be one of the most awesome snow years ever. We were really missing the snow so we decided to check out our local mountains on a drive one afternoon. Completely unequipped we found an awesome spot close to home, in flip flops Rangi helped the kids load the top of our car with snow to take home and get their mittens on to make a snow man. The snow made it home with the kids worrying about it on every turn down the mtn. and they made a decent snow man that lasted a couple days. Now to the point... the following day off from school we decided to go back up with ALL the gear, sleds, boots, snowboards, etc. We were greeted by a full on blizzard, 

You can see that Caroline is not a fan of blizzards or even cold for that matter and was much happier in the warmth of the van. Oh yeah we were also greeted by the CHP who said we needed chains to go higher up the mountain and when we told him we didn't have any he said "you always need to be prepared." Oh yeah right buddy I LIVE in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, when do you ever need chains!