Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Those Times It Snowed

Alright people... massive blog posts coming up. We ran out of internet in January/February, then my computer died for like a month. That's why I've been absent. So here is the first of five posts.

We had two major snows here this winter. The first started just a week after we came back from Christmas break. I laid down for a nap after church on Sunday and woke up to find this:

Whoa. That fell fast.

Soon I got this message on my phone. Woo-hoo!

Later that night it looked like this.

The next day we got up to some good deep snow.
Time to bundle up!

Layer one: thermal shirt and pants with normal socks

Layer two: Fleece jacket, pants, and socks

Layer three: shoes, hat, and mittens

Add a coat and it's time to play!

It's fun and funny out here!

I'm covered in snow!

Isn't this fun, mama?

It's so funny!

The next day we were off again, so we went
back out when it was a little melted.

Ooooooo... snowball!

Some pretty wicked icicles mixed in with our icicle lights

Then a few weeks later, it happened again, just more of it!

Jake! Snow Day!
It snowed ALL DAY, so we kept
ourselves occupied in many ways...

Jake set up a construction site on the toilet.

He shook his shakers to Jack's Big Music Show.

I decided to make this yummy soup to stay warm.

Warning: If you move the soup into a new bigger pot, and go to clean out the former smaller pot, don't turn your back. Because the new bigger pot may still not be big enough.

The snow mid-afternoon

We read some weather-appropriate literature...

...rearranged some furniture...

...got out a LOT of toys and watched Sesame Street...

...and tried on everyone's shoes.

The next day when the snow stopped,
we bundled up to go outside again.

Happy Snow Day!

Funny thing is that he refused to move from this spot.

This gives you an idea of how deep it was... about 6 inches.

I tried to take him in since he was just standing there, but he thought it was fun getting on and off of the porch. And that was the total playing in Snow The Second.
It was cold and we weren't doing anything, so I took him in.

He really wanted to go back outside.

Meanwhile, Jack just kept himself warm in front of the heater.

Posted in: , , , on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at at 9:51 PM 0 comments  

Iciness

This past Monday it was very cold and wet. The trees across the city were covered in ice (but luckily the roads weren't) and it was so beautiful! Jon got some pictures of the trees around our house while it was still light outside. (I get home after dark every day in the winter.)

The shorty tree in the backyard.

The Mystery Fruit tree in the backyard.

The tree across the street.

The Giant Tree in our front yard.

Posted in: , on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at at 10:36 PM 0 comments  

A Strange Journey

It's my first winter in Arkansas and I expected some snow. Back in January it iced one day and I thought that was about all I was going to get. Here was my car that day after driving from work to home.


Then yesterday morning Jon woke me up and said it was snowing. I got to sleep late yesterday and when I got up and eventually left, this was all that was left at our apartment:

Quite a bit on my car

But basically none anywhere else.

Then as I drove across town I noticed that there was a little bit more snow on the trees on the highway.

As I got off the highway, there was some on the median.

Then there was more on the sides of the road in the foresty areas.

Then as I approached their neighborhood the grass was covered!

Then turning into their neighborhood, the houses were covered too!

When I turned onto their street, even the road was mostly covered.

A beautiful house covered in snow in their neighborhood.

Pulling into their driveway.

Their front yard with view across the street.

Their beautiful backyard (above and below.)

I just couldn't believe how much of a HUGE difference there was in the amount of snow just a few miles apart. It was so beautiful! All of it around town melted by yesterday afternoon, but the snow at their house was still hanging out this morning, but mostly melted by this afternoon. However some huge blizzard or something is supposed to start Thursday night and last until Friday, so maybe I'll get some more pictures then.

Posted in: , , on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 at at 11:33 PM 0 comments  

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