Snow, Snow and More Snow

We were able to enjoy a truly white Christmas this year and we loved it! It started snowing a week before Christmas and it didn't stop for a couple of weeks it seems. The only real problem we had was with getting my sister here and back home. The airport was basically shut down the day she was originally suppose to come--we had received more than 2 feet of snow in 24 hours and the whole city was pretty much brought to a stand still. Fortunately on her next try, two days later, she was able to make it in and even earlier than expected because the flight bypassed the Portland airport which was shut down. Eight days later when it was time for her to leave, the heavy snow started again and prevented her from being able to fly out. We didn't really mind though...more time to play and work at putting all of my Christmas decorations away. She made up the two days she missed at the beginning of her trip and flew out a couple of days later.

I never got any great shots of all the snow so what I have will have to do.

Cameron has especially had a blast playing in all the snow. It has been really fun to watch him enjoying it so much. Unfortunately the first week of snow was powder and so nothing amazing could be built but he did manage to come up with a great tube run on our front yard hill. He took Paige for a little ride but she was done after a few minutes. I don't think she liked feeling out of control.

Because of all the snow the kids ended up missing five days of school. The two days before winter break was suppose to start and the three days after school winter break was suppose to be over. So yes, that makes a grand total of 3 weeks out of school. Good thing Santa brought a Wii this year and great thing that Krista was here! We have enjoyed the countless cups of hot chocolate and marshmallows but we sure were all (the adults that is) ready to rid the back entryway of the giant pile of snow boots, snow pants, coats, hats and gloves after three weeks.