Surviving the Snowpocalypse

Well, this snow storm has indeed become very snowy with about 10 inches at our house. While dad is able to drive the 10 minutes to work on a major, flat highway, Harrison and mom have stayed home since Tuesday morning rather than risk driving, although anything that is not a hospital or grocery store is basically closed. Monday night, mom did manage to get to the toy store and buy a couple of sleds so on Wednesday Gavin, James and Krissi came out to play with us at the park. The adults were basically sweating pulling the kids around and the kids were whining they were cold since they had to deal with being pulled around and were tired shouting commands at us like sled dogs.

Remember the sleds I bought? I found those once I walked into the fifth store I searched in. James checked four different stores and didn't find any. I mention this because as I was typing this, Michael just walked in the door from night sledding, wearing headlamps, on the nearby golf course with James and our friend Jared. He enters and says, "Help! I think I broke my thumb. And both the sleds are busted." Well, upon further examination, the thumb probably isn't quite broken but the sleds are after hitting a few jumps that should have been avoided. Who knew all this snow would provide so much entertainment!

The Great Snowpocalypse of 2012

It began snowing on Saturday 1/14 and will continue through Friday most likely. It's just several inches per day, plenty for the kids to play in and enough for the weather forecasters to talk about it like it's the end of the world. Thank goodness mom doesn't have to commute to Seattle for work anymore, snow days were the worst. all the managers "worked from home" while the rest of us were forced to work in the office, risking driving in or commuting on buses that could get stuck in the snow or show up 90 minutes late. This morning, Harrison and I stayed in the house and didn't even go out to play until noon (it did take us 45 minutes to go through the rigamaroll of putting on layers and layers of snow gear). Yes, this lifestyle is kind indeed.

Since dad was home Sunday, we were able to go to the park Sunday morning to play as a family. Mom went to four local stores to buy a plastic sled back came back empty handed. Luckily our neighbors let us borrow theirs. Harrison and Amelie LOVED the sled, trudging up the little hill to meet me, sit double on the sled and let me give them a big push down the slope, giggling and laughing all the way down with huge smiles on their faces.

Harrison wanted to build a snowman. Once the body was assembled, Harrison said he really wanted to build Russel from the movie "Up." I don't think my snow artistry skills are up to that challenge quite yet; it doesn't snow too much here so my snow sculpting skills need more practice.

Harrison enjoyed throwing snowballs at mom and dad, especially since he has seen it done in some of his cartoons. Today, we used his sand toys to build a snow castles as well, three tiers with a "flag" on top, although I didn't have the camera with me.