Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful...

Yesterday around 11:00 I was loving the 56 degree weather. I had a t shirt and hoodie on and was enjoying the warmth. Around 1:00 things began to change. The wind whipped up and then it started raining. By the time I got home from errands it was snowing like crazy and the temperature had dropped over 20 degrees! Luckily I got home in time to go grab Chase from the bus stop and half of the neighborhood as well. My hopes for spring got a major slap in the face. We woke up to a winter wonderland.

It actually has turned out rather nicely though, since the kids don't have school today. I was a bit worried about what we would do all day. No worries, they are keeping themselves entertained with snowball fights,

snow shoveling,

and snow baseball.

Our poor trees out back were heavy with snow this morning.

The branches were drooping dangerously low so I had Michela go out and whack them with a shovel.

It is still coming down with no end in sight at the moment. I'd say we've gotten at least a good 6" since yesterday. The kids have now moved on to sledding down the back hill. Hopefully this will keep them occupied for a good part of the day. This might mean some time for Mom to get some things done around the house. :)

Snow basketball anyone?

Let it Snow

While we were in St. George it rained a lot and got kind of cold on Wednesday and Thursday.  Little did we know while we were enjoying shopping, seeing "Monsters vs. Aliens" and  making rice krispie treats that at home they were getting 13" of snow!  It's the middle of April for goodness sakes, 13"!!  Mike left Thursday and brought us some pictures of the winter wonderland back home.  Thank goodness we didn't have to deal with that.  And thank goodness it was all gone by the time we got home!  Here are some pictures of the backyard.

That Hill was Awesome!

On New Years Day we went over to Mike's parents house for breakfast. Since we missed Peggy's Christmas breakfast, she prepared most of our favorites. Ebbelskivvers (they are Danish pancakes) are so yummy! They are like golf ball size pancakes that you can dip in syrup, jam or sugar. Eggs, bacon, hashbrowns... we were so stuffed. We then suited up in our snow gear and headed out back to the hill behind their house. It is the perfect sledding hill. We had so much fun! Aria even joined us out there for most of the time. She looked so cute in her pink hat. She went down on the tube with Mike a few times and absolutely loved it.













Chase and Hunter were all over the place checking out all the possible sled runs. They even went off the jump run that Uncle Matt had made on Christmas. Hunter biffed it but he hopped right back up and "snowboarded" down the hill. Chase is a sledding King and he took the jumps with ease. I think his small size works to his advantage sometimes.











Michela was a maniac, as usual, and stayed out there sledding until the bitter end. She tried "Penguin sledding" where she slid down head first with out a sled. She also tried some cardboard for a sled. It was pretty funny watching the cardboard stop while she kept going down the hill. Peggy even went down once even though she just likes to watch.














This was one of the best snow days of my life! I had so much fun going down again and again. I even got the record on the longest run. Mike made a new run for us and we all ended up going across the road at the bottome of the hill and up the hill on the other side. Russ, Michela and I stayed out the longest. We had a hard time leaving that "Awesome" hill.

Disco Snowman

After the major snowfall the kids and I decided to spend our Saturday afternoon outside in the snow. A snowman was our goal, but the snow wasn't packing too well. We persisted, well I persisted and the kids would help out here and there.

It was slow going but we finally got it done. Our neighbors gave us this cute snowman kit a year or two ago. Everybody got to put something on the snowman.

It was Hunter's idea to put the arms in a classic disco pose. After we were done with the snowman we got a big snowball fight going. Basically it was the kids against me. We had so much fun running around the yard. The kids were attacking me and trying to get me face down in the snow. Good thing I've been working out or I would have been done for.