Snow Days!

We've had the highest amount of snowfall in 30 years and I have LOVED it! We have really enjoyed the last 2 days.

Jillian and I were supposed to head to Pam's house yesterday for a BABY Valentines party, but with the nasty weather I decided that wasn't a smart idea driving 40 min there and 40 min back. I really wish we could have, there were going to be 20+ people and babies. So fun! But we decided to enjoy our day snowed in... and we did.

Yesterday when Jillian went down for her morning nap I took Austin out front and we played for about 20 minutes. Austin loves snow, I sometimes think he wishes he lived in CO with my sister where he could play in it all the time.

Then after Jillian got up, we all went out.

I tried to take a photo of us... turned out better than I thought.

Love Jillian's face of "hurry up and get me inside!"

Jeff got home around 4pm, and we all went outside to play - again! Our next door neighbor Bredan just got home from school so we played with him. He is so fun and outgoing; love having him next door! He of course wanted to be in our picture.

Then I helped Bredan make a snowman. He was so proud of it :)

Last night we stayed in and watched TV by the fire. Nice relaxing way to end the day. We were fearful of our power going out. We live in an area with really mature trees and they were snapping and falling. Luckily we didnt, but one of our neighbors did (his house is 46 right now - yikes!). We also saw our neighbor across the street get his porsche towed home by a Jeep Wrangler full of 4 girls. I couldnt stop laughing. Who leaves their office in a low-profile car like that and thinks they can safely make it home in 8" of snow?? We found out today it took him 2 hours to get home!!

Today the snow was so BEAUTIFUL!! All our neighbors were out with their kids and dogs most of the morning surveying all the damage.

Bredan had snowball fight with Austin.

Austin lost.

There was a massive tree branch that fell and is blocking our entire street. Literally, you have to walk in the other neighbor's yard to get by it. That will be a mess to clean up.

Here are a few pictures of our home this morning under 11" of snow

All in all, I loved the snow. It's so peaceful and beautiful. Silently fallling. However, getting me and Jillian all bundled up, going outside, getting wet from snow, coming back in, drying off, cleaning off Austin, taking off my boots so my floors don't get dirty, and feeling my wet cold jeans against my feet......gets old!