Snow Writing

Here was mine...

Here was Shane's... (I <3 him)

Snow Buddies

We recently went to Salt Lake City, Utah for a ski trip.  On the last day, we rented snowmobiles in Park City and went for a guided tour.  There was so little snow, we had to travel a ways up to drive smoothly.  The metal skis on the bottom do not make a pretty sound when driving over dirt.  The guide said that they had about 18" low compared to most years.  Along our way to the top of this mountain, there was this cliff that the guide took our pictures on.  It really was safe, but the pictures look like we were falling over. 

 

Here you can really see how little snow there was.  This should have been fully white and beautiful.

 Shane's choice of activity was to simply play in the snow.  This is as much powder as we ever saw.  He and Sarah enjoyed going up and steam-rolling down.  Ski bibs are so great for keeping you warm and dry.  Glad we sprung for them this year for the kids.

SPROWLS Family Reunion

We flew to Pittsburgh, PA the last weekend of July to a Sprowls' Family Reunion.  It was in a tiny town of Claysville, which is about an hour SW of Pittsburgh.  We stopped and took a picture in front of this little hardware store that bears our name.  We had never met any of these people, (who pronounce their name (SprOWLS, like the bird) and went with the anticipation of tying our family to theirs.  They all come from a brother, Arthur Sprowls.  We think we may come from another brother James or John.  Steve can only trace his family back three generations to Benham, Kentucky.  He is hoping the family historians that we met can help him connect the lines.  The family was amazingly hospitible and we had fun seeing our name around town.  Sarah was excited that there were 2 other Sarah Sprowls in the family!