We Got Snow!

Oh my goodness!  We got lots of snow!  Well... a lot of snow for the PNW!  The kids were so happy and they were able to enjoy a SEVEN day weekend!  Craziness!!!  It started to snow on Tuesday night January 10th.  Pete took the boys to mutual and scouts at 7 pm and there was just a tiny bit of snow on the ground.  By 8:00, it had snowed so much we had about 2 inches!  Shaylee and I went for a snow walk while Pete and Maycee went to pick up the boys.  School was canceled on wednesday and so we made plans to go sledding in the morning with some friends.  We got up early and went so the sledding hill wouldn't be too crowded.  We got some great sledding in and were there for about three hours.  Later that day we took some pictures in the snow and they turned out cute.  School was canceled on Thursday and Friday as well.  The kids went sledding on both of those days, too, except Maycee.  She stayed home with me.  I had such a bad cold I couldn't go out in the cold weather anymore.  It was great for the kids to be able to sled and enjoy the snow since we only get snow like this every few years.  We ended up with about 7 inches of snow.

Brandon's friend, Elias joined us for the weekend from Thursday night until Monday afternoon because his dad was out of town.  On Martin Luther King Day, Pete decided to have us do a family service project, so we shoveled our elderly neighbors driveway.  It took about an hour with all of us out there helping.  It was pretty iced over, so we had to use hammers and mallets to break up the ice. It is kind of funny that the way our house faces, the snow melts on our driveway when the sun comes out, so by Monday we had no snow on our driveway, but the houses across the street all had a good 3 or so inches of snow still on their driveways.

The kids didn't have school on the Tuesday after MLK day, either because we got freezing rain on Tuesday.  Finally on Wednesday the kids were back in school.

Snow is falling all around!  On the House tops on the Ground!

Going on a snow walk!

So much snow in her hair

Jaron in the snow

Shaylee in the snow

Kenyon in the snow

Maycee on the sled!

Brandon in the snow

Snow angel

Maycee and Kaydence sledding

Sledding with Julie

Sledding Train with Adalyn, Sis Reid, Shaylee, Ellie, Natalie and Bro. Reid

Ginger wasn't quite sure what to do in the snow

Posing for mommy

Family Pictures in the snow

sweeping the snow

Working hard

Shoveling snow

Elias shoveling snow in short sleeves?!  Crazy Boy!

Using the mallet on the ice

Sweeping the snow.  Almost done!

Dad working hard

Mom and Maycee

The Girls

Brandon