Snow! (again)

Remember how I told you back in December that it doesn’t snow in Maryland?  Well, I lied!  We have been hammered with snow this year.  It all started with the snow I wrote about here.  At the time, that was the biggest snow I had seen since we moved to Maryland 3 1/2 years ago.  Only a few weeks after that we had an even bigger storm that dumped about  2 feel of snow at our house.  It took us a few days to dig out and left schools closed for three days.  We have had a few other smaller storms over the past few weeks that left a few inches here and there.  It snowed about 4-5 inches last weekend, it snowed on Tuesday night enough to cancel school on Wednesday.  I began to hear that this weekend we were going to get another storm  and it could be a “big deal.”  It began snowing at 10 AM on Friday morning and didn’t stop until 4 PM on Saturday.  We lost power over night for several hours.  It was getting so cold that we decided to bring Hannah into our bed so that she would stay warm.  I was worried that we would have to spend all day with no power but fortunately at 7 AM we heard our heat come back on!  We stayed inside all day and watched the snow come down.  I think we have about 30-35 inches out there.  Kyle has shoveled enough to get the car out so that he can get to work tonight.  I will be playing with Hannah at home since schools are closed Monday and Tuesday.  More snow is expected on Tuesday night so we will see how the rest of the week turns out.  Did I mention I’m ready for our trip to Florida?  Only a few more weeks!

Hannah loved playing in the snow.  She kept wanting to go in the drifts.  She wasn’t ready to come inside!     Lhotse and Hannah standing by a drift.  Helping Dad dig out.  See how far he had to dig?  All the way out to the road- and in this picture he was already about 2/3 of the way there. 

Lhotse walking from the garage to the house.

Hannah insisted on walking the entire way from the garage to the house.  Kyle had to help hold her up.  This is the next thing we need to shovel out- a path!   

   

Hannah saw Lhotse up on this pile of snow and wanted up there with her!

Happy Girl!

Snow!

After I told you all that it hardly ever snows in Maryland and the last snow storm a few weeks ago, when we got 7 inches, was the most snow we had gotten since we moved here, of course this weekend we got a major storm! It began snowing Friday night and continued to snow really hard all day on Saturday. It was even still snowing a little bit on Sunday morning. On Sunday we woke up to about 2 feet of snow covering everything! Everything was closed down so we just stayed home all weekend. (I didn't take any pictures, I'm sure you all saw it on the news) Kyle ventured out and spent 3 hours shoveling our driveway. It took him that long to shovel a path from our door to the garage, and then he shoveled one path down the driveway so that we could put one tire on the path and just gun it down the hill. It worked!
I didn't want to take Hannah out in the snow, since she doesn't have any snow pants or waterproof boots, so I brought the snow inside to the kitchen sink. She hated it and wouldn't put her hands in it. She asked me to make a snowball (she remembered that from a few weeks ago) so of course, I made her one. She took it in her hands and threw it on the floor to Lhotse! Then she loved the snow and wanted more snowballs...and that was the end of her snow playing because I wasn't going to clean snowballs up off my kitchen floor!
The best part about all of the snow was that we got the entire week off of school! My last day before winter break was going to be today (the 23rd), but luckily since the DC area doesn't get this much snow that often and doesn't know what to do with it, I got the entire week off! Yea!

Snow!

Last week we got our first snow of the winter and it was a big one (for Maryland!). Hannah really hasn't had much experience with snow because it rarely snows in Maryland and when we have been in Colorado in the past, it has never snowed much. Last Saturday we woke up to snow falling. It was coming down pretty hard and I expected it to last a few hours and then turn to rain. Much to my surprise, it kept snowing all day. We got about 7 inches at our house. The next day we went out and made a snowman and went sledding in our yard. Please excuse my child's lack of proper winter attire. Like I said, it doesn't really get that cold or snow much here so this is the heaviest coat she had- I have since gotten her a much heavier coat!

Hannah- when the snow first started.

The next day Hannah had fun in the snow!

Helping dad make a snowman.

The final product!

Hannah liked throwing snowballs to Lhotse.