Snow Days

The last week or so has been pretty snowy here.  I’ve been around snow before, but I haven’t really been around freezing rain.  First, it snowed 1-2 inches, and it was pretty dry snow.  We played outside in it though, of course.  Bekah was here, so she got some great pictures.

Getting ready to throw a snowball

Over the next few days, it proceeded to snow, precipitate freezing rain, snow, more freezing rain, etc etc.  We ended up with 5-6 inches of snow on the ground, coated in a solid layer of ice.  Our yard looks like a skating rink.  I walked out to the mailbox, and broke through the ice every third step or so.  The rest of the time I walked on top of the ice/snow.  Craziness!

Vincent and I had a snowball fight and made a little snowman together.  Our little snowman was tough to put together – that first batch of snow was pretty dry.  After the next round of snow Richard and Vincent put together some pretty decent snowmen (i think there are currently four in various stages of melt/freeze in the backyard).

Vincent was most excited about having a snowball fight.  I’m not exactly sure what precipitated that, but it was fun.  It was a pretty controlled, turn-based snowball fight.  We counted down and threw simultaneously sometimes, and other times just took turns throwing.

Snow in momma's hair