Snow angels hold a special place in my family's heart. Growing up, my grandmother lived with us. One winter day, she ran to the trading post to make sure we had enough supplies to make it through the storm that was brewing. On her way back, the weather hit like a freight train.
She made it home, thankfully, but entered with ripped bags and a sour attitude. Outside, we saw in the freshly fallen snow, a perfect snow angel from when she must have fell on her way inside. A seltzer bottle was still in the snow angel's hand.
It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. My AIM screen name was, years later, SnowAngel932, a nod to this beautiful moment.
Thankfully, this video isn't an accident, and the elderly woman is fine. So if you're hoping to laugh at old ladies falling, get out of here.
Betty Ritchie was lowered to the ground by her daughter and son-in-law so she could play in the snow for her birthday.
"I've just always made snow angels with my kids and everything," Betty said. "So I didn't want to be a big wheel. I just wanted to make an angel."
Ritchie felt the need to make a snow angel again last month when she was riding around town with her family after her birthday. "My daughter and her husband were driving down there one day and I said, 'I want to make a snow angel,' so my granddaughter helped me get in and out of the car and we did it," she said.
Her daughter, Sherry Spangler, talked about her mom's playful personality:
"She was the kind of mom who always went sled riding us, she always went swimming with us. She wasn't the kind of mom who just sat around. And every time it would snow she'd say, 'Come on, we'll make snow angels.' That's just what we always did. We still do, even us big kids."
"I'm glad it's making so many people happy," Betty said. "That's what I'm here for. That's what God's got me here for."
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