Saturday morning view!
This is the winter wonderland we woke up to on Saturday morning. It had started to snow in the night and didn't stop until late in the evening on Saturday. The children were excited. They had to play in the snow twice that day. And of course, had hot chocolate with dinner.
Zach loved it, until he got cold. The dinosaurs he got for his birthday loved it too. They had several adventures in the snow.
Katie could have stayed out all day if we just had our snow equipment found and /or bigger sizes bought for the season. But really, does it snow this much in October...
Morgan, well, was interested at first but then was not into the snow. Since she is still crawling there was no freedom and she was not going to touch the cold snow. But still a very cute snow bunny!
Trevor got stuff cleaned up out of the yard. Like hoses and summer stuff. It was on his to do list but he didn't think he would have to get all suited up in his snow gear to do it. Saturday afternoon we heard a weird noise outside and looked and saw that a branch from on of our trees had fallen. The trees haven't lost any leaves yet and the snow was really wet, heavy.
SUNDAY
It had snowed a little bit more in the night. On Saturday night Trevor measured in the back yard and it measured about 9 inches. In other parts I am sure it would be over a foot.
This is what we woke up to -
Front Door view-
View from the porch
View from across the street
WE are just HAPPY that they didn't land on anything they could hurt, such as cars, animals, etc. Our neighbors had one land on their house and two fall on their truck - no major damage thankfully! If you walked under them on Sunday when the sun was out it was as if it was raining outside. All the snow was melting and getting the weight off of the tree limbs, yeah!!!!!
Even with all of this I still love snow. I think I always will. It seems to make the world a better place, cleaner and nicer. We like to call snow natures frosting.
(we did have to explain to Zach that it is different than "real" frosting.)
Trevor went and helped a friend get his truck unstuck and then dig out his house in which he is building so the floors wouldn't be ruined so guess what we are doing today and for F.H.E. -
Snow clean up, tree limb removal and probably some playing too.
Okay the official measurement was 14" in a 36 hour period.
!Yeah a lot of snow!
2 comments:
I keep praying that it will snow in santa monica. i am so not a california girl. season changes are refreshing!!lucky you!
oh my goodness-i thought our measly 4 inches was bad-sheesh-i bet you had more fun playing in the snow than we did, bridger brought out the sled and i told him that it was wishful thinking! i love your trees and am sad the branches broke off-that would make me cry, but i echo your thoughts of thankfulness that no one was hurt, the pirate party looked like a blast too!!
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