Snow Fun

What a cold and snowy week.  Bryan and I were laughing at one of the weather(dot)com articles.  The first paragraph read something like: "The NW is getting hit with a snow storm of historical proportions!  Seattle might even get more than 6 inches."  Having lived in Iowa, having seen more than six inches here, and having family who lives in areas where six inches might fall in an hour, we thought it was a rather humorous statement.

Anyway, Brandon loved playing in the snow and spent quite a bit of time outside before the temperatures dropped to below frigid.  Micah enjoyed it for about ten minutes at a time.

Saturday we had absolutely no plans, which doesn't happen very often.  With the boys being sick again and regularly sleeping in till 8:30 in the morning, I was looking forward to actually being able to stay in bed for a lot longer than normal.  Unfortunately, Brandon called me in to their room at 7AM (okay so I got an extra hour and a half) all excited about the SNOW that was "ALL OVER".  End of sleep.  Bryan very graciously told the boys that Mommy would play in the snow with them.  He sacrificed himself a couple times to open the door and take pictures...

Saturday's snow was quite wet so it made a nice compact snow for a snowman.

Micah discovering all this white stuff.

Brandon's often frequented favorite position in the snow.

Late Saturday night we got a call from my brother Bryan.  He was in Seattle and had driven through Lynden twice without stopping.  WHAT?  After giving him a major guilt trip and having one of his friends get on the phone and beg for mercy and not catching the flights they wanted, he drove back up to Lynden and spent a day with us.  It was a real treat!

Catching the rocket.

See how incredibly similar they are in athletic build?

Brandon and Bryan had a race to see who could get the rocket first.

Launching together.

 Monday it started snowing more and when Brandon decided to come inside and warm up, he spent his time in front of the door watching the snow.

Tuesday, after all that snow had fallen, was a fun day for the kids.  The snow was quite fluffy and fun to play with but didn't stay together very well for a snowman.

Wednesday the temperature dropped to 9 F without the windchill (I heard the windchill factor had us at about -10.)  Needless to say we didn't go outside.

Tomorrow we're supposed to be at 45F and raining.  Seattle is frozen over in ice--I hope our snow melts and doesn't turn back in to ice.

Time to make supper.
Blessings