Snow Day #1

***Disclaimer: All of these pictures were taken with my iphone since my photographer husband was at work. The quality stinks, but somebody's gotta document all of this!***

I am on my second day off of school this week. It's great! We knew a storm was coming on Monday night and we always come out to my parent's for our weekly Monday night get together with everyone. We decided we would just spend the night since we knew Mark had to be at work the next day and I knew chances were, that school would be called off. Mark has a 50 minute drive to work every morning from our house, but from my parent's, it's only about 20. So, we figured that was our best bet.

Then, we heard that the storm was probably going to be worse than we thought, so I threw a bunch more clothes in our suitcase, and we've been here ever since! It has worked out really well, though. I am thinking we will have school tomorrow, so we'll be back home.

This picture pretty much sums up Kate's time in the snow.

She got this sled for Christmas and we decided to use it yesterday. She hated her hat and her mittens (notice she doesn't have them on in this picture). I grabbed a towel and threw it in there with her and tried to make sure she kept her hands under there.

See her trying to pull them off? I thought it would be hard with mittens on, but she managed to get them off.

She actually liked it when she was being pulled through the yard.

Then, we pulled out the big guns and went to a little slope in the backyard. Her first time down the hill was fine. Her second time down the hill was fine. Then, I decided to take her to another little hill and as I was pulling her sled in a different direction, it tipped over backwards and she was in the snow (granted, her sled has a seatbelt in it). For like two seconds, but it did her in. She cried the whole way as I pulled her back to the front yard.

After that, Kate went down for a nap and we got the brainiac idea to go out to lunch. Everyone's cars were pulled in the driveway (the police came the night before and told us we had to get them all off the street so the plows could come through), but we forgot to get Mark's keys to his car since he took my mom's four wheel drive Explorer to work.

So, his keys were in his coat pocket at work. His car was behind my car in the driveway, and I won't tell you who's idea it was (not mine!) to try to circle around in the yard to get out. In the end, this is what happened:



We were stuck, majorly.

Someone had to go inside and get my dad, who was putting Kate to sleep, and when he came out, he was less than thrilled with us.

We thought maybe he could pull us back up onto the driveway.








There's Brad and his girlfriend, Vicky .

Here's Mom and me enjoying the chaos. I would like to title this picture "Double Chin Central".

(Me, not you, Mom!)

In the end, he never could get the car out and a tow truck had to come. Crazy!!! And, we never went to lunch!

Here's to Snow Day #2...may it be better than Snow Day #1!!!