Four Letter "S" Word

Anybody who knows me knows how much I loathe snow. I grew up in UT so you'd think I would be used to it. And I was used to it while I was growing up but that still didn't stop me from pining away for spring as soon as the first flakes fell.

When we moved to Grenada in the winter of '07 I was so excited to to miss out on winter and it turned out to be one of the best winters ever. We celebrated not a white christmas, but a white sand christmas. We made sand angels and even a sandmad. It was wonderful.

Then we moved to NJ! And we had an uncharacteristically snowy winter. Everybody told me winter would be mild in NJ and I was looking forward to it, but we ended up have a blizzard and 5 snow days from school. It was not mild!

Even with all the snow last year we never went out and played in it other than the day after Christmas blizzard. (the kids and Jason went out and shoveled snow, and I stayed in the house with my new baby)

This year has been wonderful. We have only had 2 snow storms. One was the weekend of Halloween, it was really bad, and then the one we had last week. I was actually hoping to go a whole year without snow :)

Anyway, since the kids love playing in the snow and I hadn't been out it in for several years I decided to Carpe Diem and get bundled up and go out in the snow! And here are the pictures to prove it.

Me, shoveling the walk with Miss Islay.

Rori wanted to help shovel too :)

Ridge was in heaven in the snow. Whose kid is he anyway?
Ice and daddy! One of my favorite pictures.
This is our landlord George playing with the kids. Rori wanted him to dump snow on her head!
She wanted me dump snow on her head too. Ironically, she loved it and wanted me to do it again and again. Silly girl.



Dyson with a snow face :) He had so much fun until his pants got so heavy with snow that they were falling off! I had a pair of snow pants for everyone except him. Instead he was wearing a pair of warm up pants under his jeans. It didn't help much but it was the best we could do on short notice :)
Ridge's snow face!
Islay had such a good time in the snow in spite of the fact that it was hard for her to maneuver through. Between the snow pants, coat, and gloves and that the snow went half way up her legs she struggled, but she was such a trooper.

I LOVE this picture of Islay. Her eyes are so beautiful. Love her!
Dyson, adjusting his gloves. Don't ya just love his "snow pants" ?
Islay spent a lot of time on her bum unless she was walking on the shoveled sidewalk. But she never cried. (Really, whose children are these?)
Oh yeah, they are his. Jason loves the snow, especially when he can go skiing. My kids must get their love of the snow from him.
We had a fun day in the snow. And there are pictures to prove that I was out there with them. Everybody was worn out and hungry by the time we were done. I'm really glad that I decided to go out and play with the kids. It was so much fun and now I'm good for several more years.

It would be OK with me if we didn't get anymore snow.

I'm just sayin.