blowing rock 2014.

every mlk weekend we travel to blowing rock to have a little fun in the snow.  it was mine and trey's 6th trip, sarah kate & beau's 5th trip, and hayes's 2nd trip.  it was the coldest one yet!  but we had such a great time - we built a snowman, played in the snow, went sledding, went out to different fun places to eat, went to boone, and enjoyed being cozy by the fire.  

our annual blowing rock trip has become one of our favorite lucy family traditions!  

here come the pics!!!  i took a million - none of my children (beau included) actually enjoy pics so i may get about 20 good ones for every million taken;)  ha!

sweet beau boy!  he never minds the snow at all, but the altitude bothered him a little this year.    he needed more oxygen up there!  but he acclimated after friday night and slept well saturday and sunday nights.

headed downtown to play and to eat at our favorite lunch spot!

sk is a good sport and obliges hayes in whatever she wants to do.  and on this particular day, hayes wanted to feed everyone some of her puffs.

making snowballs to throw at us

our driveway!  it snowed a lot on friday night and saturday so we had a rough time with this darn driveway!

hats off to all the snow moms out there.  great for a visit but i'd hate to have to layer up so much each time we went outside!  she looks like randy from the christmas story.  

hayes kissing on her "sissy"

obligatory annual boot pic!

3 of my kids (dumbo counts).  the other was "napping" aka - playing in the pack n play before going back out to play in the snow.

he was always just part of the family!   

s'mores!  

getting started on the little snowman

mission complete!  

snow angels

proud girl!

headed down our steep driveway to our car to go to dinner.  fancy nancy book set in tow of course;)

sledding

miss sassy backward pants=)

she loves books so much!  and hats - no matter who they belong to.

thankful for this trip and for good family fun.

"our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains." - shakespeare