This is what I will remember: the kids running in to our bedroom when they woke up- thud, thud, thud..."It's all snowy! Everything's white!" The excitement of children on waking up to a big snow for the first time in their lives. Jay and I opened the blinds on the window over our bed and we all sat on our knees and gazed in awe at the beautiful spectacle of our yard and street under a blanket of pure white snow! The kids eyes were so wide- they just looked and looked, and exclaimed, and pointed, and talked about what they saw. We all could hardly wait to go out and PLAY!
Snowy hugs!
Ruthie in the snow fort.
Our neighbor with the handy-dandy snow-blower.
We wanted to all go out together so Harris got bundled up too. He hated it. He reminded me of a baby starfish, beached. Poor guy.
Ruthie could not wait to get outside (i.e. asked me every 4 seconds if we could go out now) and when she did she was laughing uncontrollably and just flopping around in the deep snow. It was hilarious. She even somehow made it out without her hat on.
Holy cannoli!
Our faithful mailman! The mail must go through!
Too cold for baby boys. Blizzards are not good for babies.
Site of our previous night's festivities. These were our first pictures, but there was much more to come. The snow fell heavily all day. Ruthie and Jay were out almost all day, with breaks for eating and naptime. The snow was so deep that Mac had trouble getting through it, and it just wore him out. He loved it, but he couldn't stay out as long as Ruthie. Jay was like a kid, playing and romping. He was a great snow horse, built a snow-fort with Ruthie, flopped and played- with intermittent bouts of shoveling the driveway. The snow was falling so fast that his work was almost undone as soon as he finished! We figured we probably wouldn't make it to church in the morning, and we were right. But the day dawned beautiful and bright, and with fresh snow, since it had kept snowing after we messed it all up the day before!
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props to the mail man!!
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