Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Blizzard Snow Day!

With this record breaking storm...we had a snow day, everyone had one! Although Jason spent a better part of the morning outside digging us out, we did venture outside later in the day. Here is what we encountered...


The snow drift on the side of the house was pretty big, so Jason didn't bother to waste his shoveling energy on it when we don't use that side of the house too often. Then we saw Jillian's little slide almost buried...sad=( Working our way to the back of the house the snow drift was almost all the way up to the window on the garage and the the snow drift in the gate was almost as tall as me!

The alley was the worst part of it...it doesn't get plowed by the city so we have to shovel it out! The snow drifts back there where huge because there was no where for the snow to go. But this was very important to get dug out, otherwise we wouldn't be able to get out to the street.

We did have 54 MPH winds and thankfully this one shingle is the only "damage" that was done to the house (that we know of at this time).

BUT despite the seriousness of the storm and the backache Jason received from all the shoveling, we did take Jillian out to enjoy the snow!


This is a picture of Jillian standing in the doorway of the fence, the snow drift was bigger than she was!

We don't have a sled yet (yes I know we need to get one), so we tried the wagon. I don't think Jillian liked that very much because from what she remembers of her wagon is was always warm when we used it!

A rare picture of mommy and Jillian playing in the snow (I am usually the one taking the pictures)!

We hope you were able to enjoy this crazy amount of snow a little and that you are warm and safe after this blizzard.

Broderick!

A few weeks ago Jillian had her very good friend Broderick over for an all day play date! His mommy had things to do so we were able to have him over ALL DAY, very exciting! He was a great friend and was very good for me. Here is our day in photos (yes, I was a little picture happy, they were just soooo cute together!).

We started in the front room...and yes Jillian still has her PJs on!



Jillian finally got dressed and we moved on to the tunnel!



As I was getting lunch ready I turned on Toy Story and these two made themselves comfortable!


Too cute for words!


After lunch and an afternoon nap we got a little creative and drew on the chalkboard!



For a change of scenery we ventured downstairs for a little pink race car action and the rice table.


A little more ball popper to end our day!

We had such a great time and like I said before, Broderick is such a nice kid. Jillian has got a great friend in the making!