Snow Day

So they had been predicting this crazy winter storm that was coming our way on Sunday, and all day we waited for it. We waited, we waited, and we waited some more. Nothing was happening. I went outside to get something from the basement Sunday evening, and it was as calm and quiet as could be. About 5 minutes later, Josh opened the back door and it was suddenly pouring. But it was pouring ice. Really strange, the difference in that sound verses pouring rain.

Within an hour there were 3 inches of snow on the ground. I mean, that stuff stuck. Fast. It was like someone just took a blanket and threw it over everything.

So of course we got out in it on Monday. Bennett and I bundled up and went out there after a late breakfast. It was strange snow, though. It was 3 to 4 inches of snow covered in a sheet of ice. So when you walked on it, it cracked and then you sunk in. Greg set his coffee cup in it and expected to have to nestle it in there, but it just sat right on top of the snow, like Bennett's bucket in the picture below.

I couldn't even stick the tape measure down into it; it was too hard. We had to crack it with our knuckles and scoop it away to get the tape measure down in there. (This is on the back of Josh's car. It looks like I'm measuring it at the bottom of a hill, but it's just the back windsheild of his car going up.)


Bennett enjoyed cleaning off the "booshes" with his shovel.


Okay, we're officially poor. Josh doesn't have any shoes that are appropriate for snow, so this is what he does to keep his feet dry. Thankfully he tucked the plastic bags up under his jeans by the time our neighbors came out.

He disappeared for a little while, and then we realized that he had gone looking for something:



We decided to take it out on the street for a better incline.

Not the most exciting sledding ever, but Bennett loved it. :)



Cannon woke up from his nap and got to come out in the snow for just a little bit. He's got a major fashion crisis going on, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't care.

Hope you all were warm, cozy and safe where you were!