Clouds on the Hills

One of my Thankful Thursday posts was about how I loved the rainy/cloudy weather in the hills because of how beautiful it was (see that post here), well this time my Handsome was driving so I was able to snap some pictures...though the pictures do NOT do the beauty of this ANY justice at all! See how the clouds just roll over the hills and come into town...LOVE IT!




There are houses up in those clouds!

I just think it is BEAUTIFUL!

***Countdown to my birthday: 3 days!

Round Two, Day One

As round 2 started outside... It was C r A z Y inside!Princess has an opinion about everything these days and since I knew we wouldn't be going anywhere, she was able to pick her entire outfit...what do you think? Crazy flowers on top, and crazy snowflakes on the bottom! At least the pinks were the same shade!As I said in a previous post, he is really into hats right now and it doesn't matter if they are boy, girl, or baby hats...anything that ever COULD be a hat he tries! Silly Boy!

Case & Point!

We try not to work too hard on anything other than spending time as a family on snow days...and it looks like we may be in for round 3 sometime in the next week or so...what do you do with surprise days off?

Needed some time to wiggle!

After having snow from Sunday (22nd) ~ Wednesday (25th) the kiddos & Mommy needed to get out of the house. We all went to see our wonderful chiropractor and the kids got their stickers for letting Dr. S work on their backs with no fussing we went and visited our dear lawyer friend E. Had some paperwork to sign, and then brought it to our dear car friend MG as he had to sign it too! These two guys are just adored by our kids and they make themselves at home whenever they are around! Anyway, we decided to go out to our fav G.uadalajaras for supper, since we heard snow round 2 was coming!

Sunshine took the chance to look over the menu to see if there was anything other than Chicken & French Fries that he could eat...

Princess did it just like a big person, she looked at the pictures and pointed! He is still hard at work looking for something on the menu he can have...the jury is still out on that one!We then went for a short drive and Sunshine tried to charm Mommy with his smiles...Take 2...

Still round ONE

Just a couple of pictures of what town looked like last Wednesday after we were FINALLY able to get out and about! I tell ya, living in a house this small with 2 two year olds you start to notice it when you are trapped for that long! This is not a complaint...I would rather live in a small house than not have one and I would rather have boxed in frustrated children than not have any!

Snow + Kids = Snowtime

Tuesday afternoon it was fairly nice as far as the temps go (relative since less than 48 before we were close to 80!) but it seemed like a good idea to bundle the kids up and let them enjoy some snowtime. Princess did not like it from the beginning...Sunshine LOVED IT!!! He actually cried when it was time to go in!

Daddy showed the kids the big drift in the back of the house and how to play 'skeet ball' on it with Princess's princess ball!Hiding behind a tall drift... Sunshine playing with his bat and making dents in the snow!Princess starting to head through the tunnel and turning around to come back because she wasn't so sure about the snow being so far over her head!But they made it safely through! With Daddy waiting for them on the deck at the other side

Someone taught them how to eat snow...hmmmSunshine really liked the 'ice cream'Happy to be going back the other direction (she thought we were going in!)Sunshine going down down down the stepsStopping to take a lick of 'ice cream'Again, happy because she thought we were going in Sunshine was just loving the snow She realized we were not going in


That same someone taught them how to make snowballs AND throw them! hmmmmm...Having fun over 3 foot of snow

Until he sunk! But he still didn't get too upset, he worked hard and managed to get out all by himself!

Tuesday

After receiving feet of heavy snow, Handsome decided he would take his snow day to start digging out! He started bright and early Tuesday morning, the snow was actually still falling but was almost finished. He dug and dug! This is our neighbor to the North,if you remember from yesterdays post...they have a layer of skirting before the door starts...and the snow is half way up their door!

Other neighbors, that is their main entrance to their house!

Looking to the South...

Looking to the North...The big drift behind our houseHandsome shoveled out a tunnel to our back deck!A big drift on top of our house

This finished project in front of our house! Didn't he do a wonderful job, just wish is wasn't all in vain!Handsome's truck surrounded by snowOur dear suburbanAs you can see the blue skies came out and it started melting already on Tuesday! That is what I love about Spring snow around here...it doesn't stick around long!

About Handsome'swork being in vain...we had to get out on Tuesday night to get stuff for our furnace (it quit on Monday night!) and when we returned after only being gone about a hour or so this is what we find!Someone (our neighbors we called the cops on Sunday about) had decided they needed to shovel 2 foot of snow back into our sidewalk!And where Handsome had spent about 5 hours shoveling out our suburban and truck! The neighbor that lived between us and them had seen them doing it and was willing to talk to the police about it. So we called the Deputy and had him come. It happened to be the same one that came on Sunday along with the same lady officer. They were not too impressed by this at all!A shovel mark to prove that it was shoveled in!
The only problem was that our good neighbor only saw them doing the street, not actually doing our sidewalk...and since the street is not our personal property nothing could really be done about it that night. The Deputy did say he was going to turn it in the the States Attorneys office and see what they thought about it. They are watching the dad of this family pretty carefully and have asked us to call them immediately if anything else happens. Apparently this guy is very dangerous and it is in our best interest...next time he will be arrested!