A couple drove 86 miles with snow in the back of their truck to show it to their great-grandchild for the first time.
Russ Furse and Carol Nelson filled their pickup truck and drove almost two hours so the tot could see snow.
The couple had recently become great-grandparents for the third time after their grandson Alex Chavers, 31, and his fiancé, Jesse Rood, 25, had their third child. They'd been planning to visit their grandson and his family soon anyway, so when it snowed, they decided to personally deliver some to the little fellow.
Mr. Furse, a retired police lieutenant, drove from California’s Lake Arrowhead to Huntington Beach with their pickup truck full of snow.
“It filled about 75 percent of the bed of the pickup truck, so we guess about 600 to 700 pounds of snow,” said Ms. Rood, a stay-at-home mom. “The baby had never seen the snow before, and they were coming to visit us anyways so they brought it down for all the kids to play.”
Carter, just 1 year old at the time, and his siblings, Jacob, then 10, and Adam, then 9, had a blast.
Ms. Rood said: “All the kids absolutely loved it. They all were playing snowball fight, running around. We even built a mini-snowman. Carter was feeling the snow and was amazed by it.
“He was laughing and ended up even throwing a little snowball at his big brothers.”
