Snow Day

Here we are waiting for Spring to spring and I go and post snow pictures.

Clair got the best seat in the house as Michelle scooped the Drive way.

Sam making a snow angel in the Driveway.

Alden put his own "Alden" twist on the snow angel and made snow faces. Not sure why but he got some nice red cheeks from his hard work. He made "funny" "mad" "happy" and "mean" snow faces. Really just looked like he stuck his face in the snow to us would have been neat to see his expressions as he made them on the other side.

Clair finally Got Free once The driveway was clear. She was unsure about the whole walking in snow thing.

SLEDDING!!!

We finally got to try out the sleds that Papa Merritt got the kids way before Christmas! It was finally the perfection combination: not too cold, not dark outside, and the kids were not sick!! It took until January 16th for this to finally happen!! The kids fun with Doug. He pulled them up to the tree line in the open field behind our house and then sled down with them each individually. They picked up some good speed a few times, as you can tell by Doug & Samantha's faces in one of the pictures! Clair & I just hung out in the HUGE drift in our back yard. Samantha is standing on top of it in one picture. The drift is almost as tall as our wall in the backyard in some spots. We also have 3 ft and 4 ft little spiral trees with lights on them, which you can barely see because they are covered up with snow! We are the only ones with snow still in our back yard, and it may be there until May this year....hopefully it doesn't melt too quickly and then flood our basement!

Blizzard of '09

We had a blizzard here in Plattsmouth last week! We got about 12 inches of snow and lots of wind! The kids and I were trapped inside from Monday - Thursday and then again Friday - Sunday! :( Doug even got to stay home on Tuesday because it was too bad to drive to Lincoln. I did all the shoveling of the driveway - taking different shifts to get it done! It was very cold and hard work....but I needed to get away from the kids! The kids begged to go outside during the blizzard, so we told them when the snow stopped, we could go outside. The problem was, that we had below zero temps and bad windchills after the snow stopped. We finally got to go outside and play in the snow on Saturday (the blizzard started on Monday night). The kids really didn't like the snow. They whined alot and were fairly annoying outside. Clair didn't mind it at first, but then decided it wasn't for her soon after that. Alden really wanted to help me shovel.

Random Pictures...

Here are some random pictures taken in January 2009. Enjoy....

Snow Day

I took the kids out on Friday afternoon for a few minutes, as the temperature rose to 15 degrees outside (hey---it was better than 4 degrees earlier in the week). Samantha was disappointed she didn't get to make a snowman due to the "crunchy/icey" snow, but she did do a lot of running around and jumped all over the yard yelling "crunch" as the snow broke below her. Alden was unsure about the snow, but he liked touching the snow with his bare hands and smiled when he realized it was really cold snow (he kept taking his gloves off).