April 2

We had a CRAZY hailstorm today! BIG hail, and plenty of it!

March 27

And how about a little dusting of snow??? Where is Spring!?!!??

January 27

…WE GOT ANOTHER SNOW DAY!! A real one this time.
We have had snow a couple of times this season but no more than an inch, and Aaron has been sadly asking when he will be able to build a snowman since the first day of cold weather. I was so glad we had a chance to do it today. A cold settled into my head yesterday and I felt pretty crummy, but I loaded myself up with medicine and headed out to play while Ash did some shoveling, some photography, and provided a sledding barrier.

okay, so here we are, finally getting to make a snowman. Aaron loves the story of Frosty and gets kind of emotional about the whole snowman melting away thing. But once we got out there, he was all over the place. He did not want to be tied down to working in one spot on a snowman when there was so much to explore, and so much snow to eat.

Here’s what most of the pictures look like…me working on the blasted thing while Aaron is on the other side of the yard.

but we did get him focused for the key moments.

but, then…he wanted to eat snow.

Ash took a shoveling break to get her photo taken with our frosty friend.

When we brought out the carrot for his nose, Aaron said he wanted to bring out another one so he could eat it. You can see that in his right hand. Here, Ash is pretending to take a bite of Frosty’s nose and Aaron is trying to bat her away.

and this is why I will happily build the snowman alone.

We bought Aaron a saucer at the start of winter and this is his first time trying it out. We have this tiny hill in our side yard, and he got going pretty fast! The top of the snow was just a bit crusty, so it was slick. In this picture, he is careening towards my car parked in the driveway. After the first time he ran in to it, Ash came and stood in front of it every time he came down.


Happy Snow Day!

January 26

Well, we had a little snow last night, and much to our surprise, we woke up this morning with NO SCHOOL! Once the sun was up we could tell that it is really just slush, so we aren’t quite sure why we are at home, but our standardized tests are done for the semester and a snow day is FIIIIIIIIIIIIINE with us!
Here’s the kind of silliness that you can expect to find on a snow slush day.

But, more snow was in the forecast, and between 2-3 it started again in earnest.
Ash headed out to put up our wipers…


and Chris took my camera out on the front porch at night.


This resulted in a little over three inches, with the bottom layer of slush now frozen underneath, so…

January 18

Chris and I went to the funeral of a former colleague of ours, Gene Wood, who retired a few years ago and died of colon cancer. He was my very first team teacher when I started teaching at the eager age of 21. He was a life-long teacher and had a incredible impact on many lives. I wish I had a picture with him in it to post today. I will need to get my hands on the department photo from several years ago that has all of us in it. It was in a frame at the service, which was very touching.
On the way home, it had started to dump freezing rain. We thought we may score a 2-hour delay out of it, but I woke this morning to hear that school was closed! This is our first “snow day” but it was really an ice day, I guess, of this school year. It was REEEEEEALLY treacherous outside. It has been melting away all day, but this morning it seemed like EVERYTHING was coated in 1/2 inch of ice.
Aaron went down to Ashley’s room and was “ironing” her red blanket. He said it was too bumpity. He “plugged it in” under her bag. :) What a cute little guy!


Here we are playing a little Add-A-Bug in front of the fire on our day off. Aaron had really bad luck and have to keep giving up his bugs. He was frustrated.